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Jul 24, 1867 — Feb 29, 1940· 72 yrs

UNITED KINGDOM AUTHOR · FICTION · HORROR

E. F. Benson

Also known as: Edward Benson, Edward F. Benson

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Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and short story writer.

Berkshire, United Kingdom
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Though the sun was hot on this July morning Mrs Lucas preferred to cover the half-mile that lay between the station and her house on her own brisk feet, and sent on her maid and her luggage in the fly that her husband had ordered to meet her.

— from Queen Lucia

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The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories

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Dickens, C. Captain Murderer. -- Poe, E.A. [Pit and the Pendulum]( Lytton, Lord. The haunted and the haunters, or The house and the brain. -- Maupassant, G. de. The inn. -- Jerome, J.K. The dancing partner. -- Caterpillars. -- Stoker, B. The judge's house. -- Hodgson, W.H. The voice in the night. -- James, M.R. Count Magnus. -- Lovecraft, H.P. The festival. -- Hartley, L.P. The travelling grave. -- Blackwood, A. The wendigo.

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Queen Lucia

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Lucia is the social queen of the small English village of Riseholme, where everyone is in everyone else's business; where Daisy and Lucia compete to have the best parties, to be the best hostess, to invite the best visitors, etc. Then along comes a newcomer who upsets everything. This is the first book in the Lucia series. Next are Miss Mapp; Lucia in London; Mapp and Lucia; Lucia's Progress; Trouble for Lucia.

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The collected ghost stories of E.F. Benson

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A collection of horror stories - not only ghosts - by one of the early masters of the genre. Most are set in southern England, but there are stories also set in Scotland, the Alps and Egypt.

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