Edward Frederic Benson

Arch-schemer and social climber, Miss Mapp spends her days using opera glasses and a notebook to chart her neighbors' affairs. Among her interests are Major Benjamin Flint, whom she has been trying to marry for years.

A Novel

Miss Mapp

Lucia's friends in Riseholme envy her new home in London and make secret plans to express their feelings about her abandonment of them

Lucia in London

Trouble for Lucia

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Queen Lucia

The terrifying presence of a restless spirit on the top deck of a London bus; a possession at the bridge table on a cruise up the Nile; a nightmare encounter with druidic sacrifice in the innocuous setting of a terraced back garden . . . E F Benson's "spook stories" pushed the boundaries of the ghost story tradition by exploring new, previously "out of bounds" settings--such as public transport and even hauntings by daylight--to frighten his readers from the 1890s to the 1930s. Benson delighted in twisting every idea and image and experimenting with the unexpected; this new collection of short stories from across his long career in writing draws together the most innovative, satisfyingly dark, and still resonant tales to thrill anew. This edition also features a detailed introduction containing the fascinating story of Benson's life, and the never before-republished story "Billy Comes Through."

And Other Dark Tales by E F Benson

The Outcast

Lucia Lucas, the eternally effervescent dowager, continues to consternate and beguile friends and antagonists alike in the English countryside where she becomes embroiled in high finance, buried treasure, politics, and love

The Worshipful Lucia

Richard Dalby

Available again, this collection brings together all of E. F. Benson's masterfully frightening literary ghost stories. Ranking with the best chillers of M. R. James and Henry James are over fifty classics of the macabre. Benson's graceful style unites these tales to create a thoroughly eerie atmosphere. E. F. Benson's most popular works include Secret Lives and Mrs. Ames, in addition to his Mapp and Lucia novels. "The apparitions Benson creates never fail to chill and mesmerize — late-night reading fare, to be sure!" —Booklist

The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson

Hypochondriacs and vacationers visit the Bolton Spa, but despite their petty lies the truth about each character comes to light

Paying Guests

World War I brings about many social changes in Britain that leave Lord and Lady Buryan completely at a loss

A Modern Revue

As We are

Elizabeth Gaskell

Edgar Allan Poe

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Featuring crumbling castles, chilling cathedrals, and haunted manors as their eerie settings, these stories are sure to terrify and entertain in equal measure. Supernatural terrors lurk around every corner. Here you will find tales by landmark gothic writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Sheridan Le Fanu, Sir Walter Scott and many more. Often controversial in their own time, these stories pushed the boundaries of what was possible in fiction and evoked unsettling emotions as they told their tales of mysterious places, lost secrets, and sudden, shocking violence.

The Classic Gothic Horror Collection

Colin

Make Way for Lucia

Lucia and Mapp's adventures in Tilling continue in "Lucia's Progress," also published as "The Worshipful Lucia." In this volume both Lucia and Mapp stand for election to the Town Council, and Lucia speculates in gold shares. While re-decorating Miss Mapp's house, Lucia "discovers" and hides the remains of a Roman Villa. Excitements ensue

Lucia's Progress

The Princess Sophia

Peter

Lucia and her husband Georgia insert little Italian phrases into all of their conversations in the small village of Riseholme, but they live in perpetual dread of meeting a genuine Italian who might expose their pretensions.

"Queen Lucia"

E.F. Benson's delightfully nostalgic classic of public school life is in the tradition of P.G. Wodehouse's Tales of St. Austin's. Memorably evoking the joys and torments of boyhood, from midnight feasts and glorious days on the cricket field to waxy masters and hilariously embarrassing parental visits, Benson follows young David Blaize from prep school to Marchester Collete - a thinly disguised portrait of the author's own beloved Marlborough. Affectionate, richly comic, and laced with E.F. Benson's inimitable wit, David Blaize is a marvellous entertainment from one of the century's greatest humorous writers. (Renee Manley)

Edward Frederic Benson

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