The Child of the Dawn is a tale about the afterlife and personal immortality of the human soul. The story is told from the perspective of a first person narrator who experiences what mortals call the Death. He is joined by the presence of something or somebody he names Amroth, who proceeds to lead him through the afterlife, introducing him to great mysteries that wait ahead.

Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925) was an English essayist, poet, author and academic. He was noted as an author of ghost stories and his poems and volumes of essays were famous in his time.