Premium Short Stories Collection - Blackmailing, Crank, Spook & Classic Tales

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Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. He started his novel writing career in 1893 with the fashionably controversial Dodo, which was an instant success, and followed it with a variety of satire and romantic and supernatural melodrama. He repeated the success of Dodo, with sequels to this novel, but the greatest success came relatively late in his career with The Mapp and Lucia series consisting of six novels and two short stories. The novels feature humorous incidents in the lives of (mainly) upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, vying for social prestige and one-upmanship in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery. Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories.

Table of Contents:

The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories

The Room in the Tower

Gavon's Eve

The Dust-Cloud

The Confession of Charles Linkworth

At Abdul Ali's Grave

The Shootings of Achnaleish

How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery

Caterpillars

The Cat

The Bus-Conductor

The Man Who Went Too Far

Between the Lights

Outside the Door

The Other Bed

The Thing in the Hall

The House with the Brick-Kiln

The Terror by Night

The Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories

BLACKMAILING STORIES

The Countess of Lowndes Square

The Blackmailer of Park Lane

GENERAL STORIES

The Dance on the Beefsteak

The Oriolist

In the Dark

The False Step

CAT STORIES

"Puss-cat"

There Arose a King

CRANK STORIES

The Tragedy of Oliver Bowman

Philip's Safety Razor

SPOOK STORIES

The Case of Frank Hampden

Mrs. Andrews's Control

The Ape

"Through"