‘His body was pressed against the wall at the head of the bed, and the face was a mask of agonised horror and fruitless entreaty. But the eyes were already glazed in death, and before Francis could reach the bed the body had toppled over and lay inert and lifeless. Even as he looked, he heard a limping step go down the passage outside.’ E. F. Benson was a master of the ghost story and now all his rich, imaginative, spine-tingling and beautifully written tales are presented together in this bumper collection. The range and variety of these spooky narratives is far broader and more adventurous than those of any other writer of supernatural fiction. Within the covers of this volume you will encounter revengeful spectres, vampires, homicidal spirits, monstrous spectral worms and slugs and other entities of nameless dread. This is a classic collection that cannot fail to charm and chill.Stories include:The Room in the TowerThe Dust-CloudGavon’s EveThe Confession of Charles LinkworthAt Abdul Ali’s GraveThe Shootings Of AchnaleishHow Fear Departed from the Long GalleryCaterpillarsThe CatThe Bus-ConductorThe Man Who Went Too FarBetween the LightsOutside the DoorThe Terror by NightThe Other BedThe Thing in the HallThe House with the Brick-Kiln‘And the Dead Spake – ’The OutcastThe Horror-HornMachaonNegotium PerambulansAt the FarmhouseInscrutable DecreesThe GardenerMr Tilly’s SéanceMrs AmworthIn The TubeRoderick’s StoryReconciliationThe FaceSpinachBagnell TerraceA Tale of an Empty HouseNaboth’s VineyardExpiationHome, Sweet Home‘And No Bird Sings’The Corner HouseCorstophineThe TempleThe StepThe Bed by the WindowJames LampThe DanceThe Hanging of Alfred WadhamPiratesThe Wishing-WellThe Bath-ChairMonkeysChristopher Comes BackThe SanctuaryThursday EveningsThe Psychical Mallards
