E. F. Benson

Edward Frederic Benson

E. F. Benson
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E. F. Benson en 1902.
Nom de naissance Edward Frederic Benson
Naissance
Wokingham, Berkshire, Drapeau du Royaume-Uni Royaume-Uni
Décès (à 72 ans)
Londres, Drapeau du Royaume-Uni Royaume-Uni
Activité principale
Romancier
Auteur
Langue d’écriture Anglais britannique
Genres
Roman de mœurs, roman policier, fantastique, littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse

Œuvres principales

  • La Chambre dans la tour (1912)
  • Queen Lucia (1920)

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E. F. Benson
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E. F. Benson en 1902.
Nom de naissance Edward Frederic Benson
Naissance 24 juillet 1867
Wokingham, Berkshire, Drapeau du Royaume-Uni Royaume-Uni
Décès 29 février 1940 (à 72 ans)
Londres, Drapeau du Royaume-Uni Royaume-Uni
Activité principale
Romancier
Auteur
Langue d’écriture Anglais britannique
Genres
Roman de mœurs, roman policier, fantastique, littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse

Œuvres principales

  • La Chambre dans la tour (1912)
  • Queen Lucia (1920)

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Edward Frederic Benson (Wokingham, Berkshire, 24 juillet 1867 - Londres, 29 février 1940) est un romancier, biographe, mémorialiste et auteur britannique de nouvelles fantastiques et romans policiers, plus souvent désigné comme E. F. Benson.

Biographie

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330px-Lamb_House%2C_Rye.jpgLamb House, la maison d'E. F. Benson qui servit de modèle à "Mallards", la maison de Miss Mapp.

Edward Frederic Benson est le fils de Edward White Benson (1829-1896), archevêque de Cantorbéry, et de sa femme, Mary Sidgwick, sœur du philosophe Henry Sidgwick.

Il appartient à une fratrie de six enfants, dont :

  • Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925), auteur des paroles de l'hymne Land of Hope and Glory sur une musique d'Edward Elgar, et directeur de Magdalene College (Cambridge)
  • Margaret Benson (1865-1916), auteur et égyptologue amateur
  • Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914), proche du mouvement d'Oxford, converti au catholicisme et romancier

Il fait ses études au Marlborough College, où l'écriture et l'archéologie sont ses centres d'intérêt. Cette période de sa vie lui inspire plus tard son roman David Blaize (1916), où se devine en filigrane un certain érotisme homosexuel. Car, bien qu'il n'en ait jamais fait état publiquement - ce qui se comprend eu égard aux lois répressives en vigueur dans l'Angleterre de son temps - il semble aujourd'hui plus que certain que Benson était homosexuel[1]. Or, loin du cliché de l'homme efféminé, Benson est un athlète accompli. Il pratique le patinage artistique de haut niveau, ce qui lui permet de représenter son pays dans des compétitions internationales. Il est également un fait que Benson aime la compagnie des hommes virils et que plusieurs de ses amis sont des homosexuels. Ainsi, pendant quelques années, il partage avec John Ellingham Brooks, un homosexuel notoire[2], une villa d'été à Capri, île italienne qui, avant la Première Guerre mondiale, attire les jeunes hommes gay de toute l'Europe.

En 1893, le considérable succès rencontré par son premier roman, Dodo: A Detail of the Day, le décide à embrasser la carrière littéraire.

À partir de 1918, et pour une longue période de sa vie, Benson habite Lamb House, l'ancienne maison de Henry James, sise dans le village de Rye, Sussex de l'Est. Il devient d'ailleurs le maire de cette localité en 1934.

Il meurt d'un cancer de la gorge en 1940, à l'University College Hospital de Londres.

E.F. Benson est l'auteur d'ouvrages très divers : biographies, romans de comédie sociale, notamment le Cycle de Mapp et Lucia, et deux romans parfois qualifiés de policiers : Le Talisman des Vail (1929) et The Blotting Book (1908). Mais il demeure surtout connu aujourd'hui pour ses romans et nouvelles fantastiques : genre qu'il aborde dès 1895 avec The Judgement Books et auquel il sacrifie la plus grande partie de son œuvre.

Œuvre

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Romans

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Série Mapp et Lucia

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  • Queen Lucia (1920)
    Publié en français sous le titre Queen Lucia, Paris, Salvy, 1990 ; réédition, Paris, 10/18 no 2701, 1996
  • Miss Mapp (1922)
    Publié en français sous le titre Miss Mapp, Paris, Salvy, 1992 ; réédition, Paris, 10/18 no 2759, 1996
  • Lucia in London (1927)
    Publié en français sous le titre Lucia à Londres, Paris, Salvy, 1991 ; réédition, Paris, 10/18 no 2702, 1996
  • Mapp and Lucia (1931)
    Publié en français sous le titre Mapp et Lucia, Paris, Salvy, 1993 ; réédition, Paris, 10/18 no 2855, 1997
  • Lucia's Progress (1935)
    Publié en français sous le titre La Gloire de Lucia, Paris, Salvy, 1994 ; réédition, Paris, 10/18 no 2892, 1997
aussi connu sous le titre Worshipful Lucia.
  • Trouble for Lucia (1939)
    Publié en français sous le titre Les malheurs de Lucia, Paris, Salvy, 1995 ; réédition, Paris, 10/18 no 2929, 1998
Note : La série comprend deux nouvelles :
  • The Male Impersonator (1929)
  • Desirable Residences (1937)

Autres romans

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  • Dodo: A Detail of the Day (1893)
  • The Rubicon (1894)
  • The Judgement Books (1895)
  • Limitations (1896)
  • The Babe, B.A. (1897)
  • The Money Market (1898)
  • The Vintage (1898)
  • The Capsina (1899)
  • Mammon and Co. (1899)
  • The Princess Sophia (1900)
  • The Luck of the Vails (1901)
    Publié en français sous le titre Le Talisman des Vail, Paris, Librairie des Champs-Élysées, Le Masque no 38, 1929
  • Scarlet and Hyssop (1902)
  • An Act in a Backwater (1903)
  • The Book of Months (1903)
  • The Relentless City (1903)
  • The Valkyries (1903)
  • The Challoners (1904)
  • The Angel of Pain (1905)
  • The Image in the Sand (1905)
  • The House of Defence (1906)
  • Paul (1906)
  • Sheaves (1907)
  • The Blotting Book (1908)
  • The Climber (1908)
  • A Reaping (1909)
  • Daisy's Aunt (1910)
  • The Osbornes (1910)
  • Account Rendered (1911)
  • Juggernaut (1911)
  • Mrs. Ames (1912)
  • Dodo's Daughter (1913)
  • Thorley Wier (1913)
  • The Weaker Vessel (1913)
  • Arundel (1914)
  • Dodo the Second (1914)
  • The Oakleyites (1915)
  • Mike (1916)
  • David Blaize (1916)
  • The Freaks of Mayfair (1916) (portraits)
    Publié en français sous le titre Snobs, Paris, Salvy, 1998 ; réédition, Paris, 10/18 no 3089, 1999
  • An Autumn Sowing (1917)
  • Mr. Teddy (1917)
  • David Blaize and the Blue Door (1918)
  • Up and Down (1918)
  • Across the Stream (1919)
  • Robin Linnet (1919)
  • Dodo Wonders (1921)
  • Lovers and Friends (1921)
  • Peter (1922)
  • "And the Dead Spake--" and The Horror Horn (1922)
  • Colin: A Novel (1923)
  • David of King's (1924)
  • Alan (1924)
  • Expiation (1924)
  • Colin II (1925)
  • Rex (1925)
  • A Tale of an Empty House (1925)
  • Mezzanine (1926)
  • Pharisees and Publicans (1926)
  • The Inheritor (1930)
  • Secret Lives (1932)
  • Travail of Gold (1933)
  • Raven's Brood (1934)

Nouvelles et recueils de nouvelles

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  • Caterpillars (1912)
  • The Room in the Tower (1912)
    Publié en français sous le titre La Chambre dans la tour, Paris, Librairie des Champs-Élysées, coll. Le Masque fantastique no 7, 1978
    Note : En lieu et place du recueil original, l'édition française propose sous ce titre un choix de dix nouvelles puisées dans quatre recueils différents : La Chambre dans la tour, Mrs Anworth, Et nul oiseau ne chante, Negotium perambulans, Home sweet home, Le Sanctuaire, Les Chenilles, La Maison du coin, Le Visage, Les Singes.
  • The Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories (1920)
  • Visible and Invisible (1924)
Note : Seules trois nouvelles de ce recueil ont été traduites dans diverses publications : Décrets insondables (Inscrutable Decrees), « in » Le Visage vert, n°14, Paris, Zulma, 2007 ; La Corne d'épouvante (The Horror-Horn), « in » Le Visage vert, n°17, Paris, Zulma, 2010 ; Dans le métro (In the Tub), « in » Histoires de fantômes, Paris, Le Livre de Poche jeunesse, 1985.
  • Spook Stories (1928)
Note : Une seule nouvelle de ce recueil a été traduite : Bagnel Terrace (id.), « in » Les Chats fantastiques, Paris, Joëlle Losfeld, 1998.
  • More Spook Stories (1934) :
Note : Une seule nouvelle de ce recueil a été traduite : Les Pirates (The Pirates), « in » La Porte ouverte. Histoires de fantômes d'enfants, Paris, Joëlle Losfeld, 2000.
  • The Confession of Charles Linkworth (1938)
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes nouvelle coécrite avec E. H. Miles publiée dans The Mad Annual (1903) et traduite en français dans Les Avatars de Sherlock Holmes (Rivages/Noir Payot 2017)

Biographies et mémoires

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  • Sketches from Marlborough (1888)
  • Winter Sports in Switzerland (1913)
  • Crescent and Iron Cross (1918)
  • Our Family Affairs, 1867–1896 (1920)
  • Mother (1925)
  • Sir Francis Drake (1927)
  • The Life of Alcibiades (1928)
  • As We Were: A Victorian Peepshow (1930)
Le chapitre X a été publié en français sous le titre Deux Scandales - Les procès contre Oscar Wilde et l'affaire Tranby Croft, amazon direct publishing, 2020
  • As We Are (1932)
  • Charlotte Brontë (1932)
  • King Edward VII (1933)
  • The Outbreak of War, 1914 (1933)
  • Queen Victoria (1935)
  • The Kaiser and English Relations (1936)
  • Charlotte, Anne and Emily Brontë (1936)
  • Final Edition: Informal Autobiography (1940)

Notes et références

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  1. ↑ « Penguin Classics : Features », sur penguinclassics.co.uk via Wikiwix (consulté le 30 juin 2023).
  2. ↑ « John Ellingham Brooks », sur blogspot.ca (consulté le 9 août 2020).

Sources

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  • Jacques Baudou et Jean-Jacques Schleret, Le Vrai Visage du Masque, vol. 1, Paris, Futuropolis, 1984, 476 p. (OCLC 311506692), p. 58.
  • Anne Martinetti, "Le Masque" : histoire d'une collection, Amiens, Encrage, coll. « Références » (no 3), 1997, 143 p. (ISBN 978-2-906389-82-3).

Liens externes

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  • E.F. Benson website
  • Œuvres de E. F. Benson sur le projet Gutenberg
  • The Tilling Society
  • E.F. Benson Stories
  • E.F. Benson dans l'encyclopédie glbtq
  • Article on Mapp and Lucia by Philip Hensher (en)

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As We Were - A Victorian Peep Show

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First published in 1930. A charming memoir of the high Victorian-into-Edwardian epoch. Benson writes from the perspective of the son of an Archbishop of Canterbury, moving in elite circles since his adolescence, and also his successful career as a novelist. He aims to give a flavour of what the era felt like to him experiencing it. Chapters cover different facets, from aristocratic pursuits, literary life, politics, and art. There are lots of amusing personal anecdotes and gossip.
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Paying Guests

E. F. Benson

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The story is set around a small boarding house in Bolton Spa and its owners and lodgers. It focuses on the eccentric collection of summer residents, mostly there to try and recover their health, overseen by the domineering former Indian Army Colonel Chase. According to critics, "The coming together of character and situation in 'Paying Guests' creates a comic masterpiece, worthy to stand alongside the Mapp and Lucia books." A delightful book for anybody familiar with Benson's work, full of all the usual light, wit and satirical caricatures that Benson does so well.
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Dodos Daughter (Unabridged)

E. F. Benson

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In the quaint English village of Tilling, a peculiar discovery sends shockwaves through the community. The long-extinct dodo bird has seemingly returned, its egg found in the garden of the eccentric Miss Mapp. As the villagers speculate and gossip, a young woman named Dodo emerges, claiming to be the bird's daughter. With her enigmatic past and uncanny connection to the dodo, Dodo becomes the center of a whirlwind of intrigue and suspicion. As the truth unravels, the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur, leaving the villagers questioning their own sanity and the very nature of existence.
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Miss Mapp

E. F. Benson

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'Miss Mapp' is the second novel from the 'Mapp and Lucia' series, following the life of a progressive woman who spends her days gossiping and scheming. One must tread carefully in society, or at least so Miss Mapp thinks. In a hilarious display of snobbish one-upmanship, Miss Mapp considers her every move and its possible outcome with the deftness and skill of a master chess player. God forbid she lose an ounce of social standing! But the village of Tilling becomes a battleground where romances and rumours have ensnared its inhabitants in a ruthless battle for domination. The idyllic setting, delicate daily routines and witty escapades make 'Miss Mapp' a compelling and intriguing read. It has been adapted into an ongoing TV miniseries called 'Mapp & Lucia' starring Miranda Richardson, Anna Chancellor, Poppy Miller and Felicity Montagu. Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was a British archeologist and author, who wrote under the pen name E. F. Benson. Originally from Berkshire, he studied at Cambridge University and published his first novel 'Dodo' in 1893. It was an instant success. He was a prolific novelist, and wrote in a blend of satire, science-fiction, supernatural and romantic melodramas and has been admired by later authors such as H. P. Lovecraft. He was also a reputed memoirist, and wrote amongst others a biography of Charlotte Brontë. Benson was a very discreet character but it is widely assumed that he was homosexual, of which traces can be found in the circles he kept as well as in his fiction. He never married and passed away in 1940 at age 72.
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Dodo's Daughter

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Dodo, who is well-known from E.F. Benson’s bestseller carrying the same name, is now settled down. But Dodo has new problems in her life. Dodo’s daughter Nadine is only eighteen years old but despite that she is already a self-confident woman – some would say that she is even quite full of herself! But is smoking cigarettes and chatting with friends enough to be the main content of one’s life? ‘Dodo’s daughter’ is an intriguing novel about upper-class society youth in the 1910's. Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was a British archeologist and author, who wrote under the pen name E. F. Benson. Originally from Berkshire, he studied at Cambridge University and published his first novel "Dodo" in 1893. It was an instant success. He was a prolific novelist, and wrote in a blend of satire, science-fiction, supernatural and romantic melodramas, and has been admired by later authors such as H. P. Lovecraft. He was also a reputed memoirist, and wrote amongst others a biography of Charlotte Brontë. Benson was a very discreet character but it is widely assumed that he was homosexual, of which traces can be found in the circles he kept as well as in his fiction. He never married and passed away in 1940 at age 72.
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50+ Masterpieces of Occult & Supernatural Fiction : At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Willows, The Case of Lady Sannox, The Monkey’s Paw, The Turn of the Screw and others

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Occult and Supernatural fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that exploits or is centered on supernatural themes, often contradicting naturalist assumptions of the real world. In its broadest definition, supernatural fiction overlaps with examples of weird fiction, horror fiction, vampire literature, ghost story, and fantasy. Elements of supernatural fiction can be found in writing from the genre of science fiction. Amongst academics, readers and collectors, however, supernatural fiction is often classed as a discrete genre defined by the elimination of "horror", "fantasy", and elements important to other genres.The one genre supernatural fiction appears to embrace in its entirety is the traditional ghost story. Contents: E. F. Benson CATERPILLARS THE SANCTUARY THE THING IN THE HALL THE TERROR BY NIGHT Ambrose Bierce AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE THE MIDDLE TOE OF THE RIGHT FOOT Algernon Blackwood THE WILLOWS Ulric Daubeny THE SUMACH Charles Dickens THE SIGNAL-MAN Arthur Conan Doyle THE CASE OF LADY SANNOX Lord Dunsany DISTRESSING TALE OF THANGOBRIND THE JEWELLER William Fryer Harvey ACROSS THE MOORS Nathaniel Hawthorne THE AMBITIOUS GUEST W.W. Jacobs THE MONKEY'S PAW Henry James THE TURN OF THE SCREW Franz Kafka IN THE PENAL COLONY David H. Keller THE THING IN THE CELLAR Henry Kuttner THE GRAVEYARD RATS Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu CARMILLA H.P. Lovecraft AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS THE CALL OF CTHULHU POLARIS THE QUEST OF IRANON THE RATS IN THE WALLS A REMINISCENCE OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON THE SECRET CAVE OR JOHN LEES ADVENTURE THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH THE SHUNNED HOUSE THE SILVER KEY THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER THE STRANGE HIGH HOUSE IN THE MIST THE STREET THE TEMPLE THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN THE TOMB THE TRANSITION OF JUAN ROMERO THE TREE UNDER THE PYRAMIDS THE VERY OLD FOLK WHAT THE MOON BRINGS Arthur Machen THE GREAT GOD PAN M. R. James THE MEZZOTINT THE STALLS OF BARCHESTER CATHEDRAL THE ASH-TREE NUMBER 13 COUNT MAGNUS A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS Vincent O'Sullivan WHEN I WAS DEAD Edgar Allan Poe THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM THE TELL—TALE HEART Margaret Ronan FINGER! FINGER! Saki GABRIEL-ERNEST THE OPEN WINDOW
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Lucia in London and Mapp and Lucia

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Lucia is the most popular and well read character written by E. F. Benson; there are six books in total, this volume contains the third and fourth instalments of this wonderfully satirical look at the petty squabbling and brinkmanship in the social circles of a small English village.
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Lucia's Progress and Trouble for Lucia

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Lucia's Progress and Trouble for Lucia are the fifth and sixth novels in E. F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia series. They chronicle the ongoing battles of his most famous and irrepressible characters - Mrs. Lucia Lucas and Miss Elizabeth Mapp. Both women have been used to dominating their social circles; the idyllic seaside village of Tilling proves too small for both of them. Lucia is the more deadly of the two, with lofty morals, pretentious tastes, and a lust for power, while Mapp is younger, more forceful, and able to terrify her opponents into submission. While both are hypocritical snobs, Lucia is animated by splendid delusions of grandeur and Mapp by insatiable curiosity and chronic rage; their epic collisions rock their small society and provide the narrative engines for Benson's farcical masterpieces.
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The Complete Mapp and Lucia Novels

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The Mapp and Lucia novels feature humorous incidents in the lives of (mainly) upper-middle-class British characters in the 1920s and 1930s, many of whom do not work for a living, who vie for social prestige and one-upmanship in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery. Several of them are set in the small seaside town of Tilling, closely based on Rye, East Sussex, where the author Benson lived for a number of years and (like Lucia) served as mayor.
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Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, best known now for the Mapp and Lucia series, written relatively late in his career. Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories. His 1906 short story "The Bus-Conductor", a fatal-crash premonition tale about a person haunted by a hearse driver, has been adapted several times, notably in 1944 (in the film Dead of Night and as an anecdote in Bennett Cerf's Ghost Stories anthology published the same year) and in a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone. H. P. Lovecraft spoke highly of Benson’s works in his “Supernatural Horror in Literature”, most notably of his story The Man Who Went Too Far.
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The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now we have compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever, with over 80 stories, including the works of M. R. James and H. G. Wells, alongside E. F. Benson and Algernon Blackwood, not to mention Walter De La Mare and Robert E. Howard. The "Vampire Tales" will drive a stake through the heart of any other collection out there. Other contributors include Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Marsh, Ambrose Bierce, H. P. Lovecraft, John William Polidori, Clark Ashton Smith, Nikolai Gogol, and D. H. Lawrence.
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The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 6 (30 short stories)

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If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This sixth volume of “The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written” features 30 stories by an all-star cast, including Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Louis Stevenson, M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Bram Stoker, E. F. Benson, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, Elizabeth Gaskell and John Buchan, among many others!
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The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 2 (30 short stories)

M.R. James

5h12min45

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417 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 5h13min.
If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This second volume of “The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written” features 30 stories by an all-star cast, including Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Robert W. Chambers, M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Sheridan Le Fanu, Walter De La Mare, Marjorie Bowen, Vincent O’Sullivan, John Metcalfe, Magaret Oliphant and A. M. Burrage, among many others!
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The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3 (30 short stories)

E. F. Benson

4h58min30

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398 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 4h58min.
If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This third volume of “The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written” features 30 stories by an all-star cast, including Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Robert W. Chambers, M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, W. F. Harvey, Sheridan Le Fanu, E. T. A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Edith Nesbit, Charles Dickens, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and A. M. Burrage, among many others!
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The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 1 (The Dunwich Horror, The Tell-Tale Heart, Green Tea, The Monkey's Paw, The Willows, The Shadows on the Wall, and many more!)

M.R. James

5h26min15

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435 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 5h26min.
If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This first volume of “The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written” features 30 stories by an all-star cast, including Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Robert W. Chambers, M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Sheridan Le Fanu, Walter De La Mare, Franz Kafka, Robert E. Howard, John Metcalfe, W. W. Jacobs and Lafcadio Hearn, among many others!
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