The Temple of Death: The Ghost Stories of A.C. & R.H. Benson

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The great oaken gate heaved and splintered, and a monstrous beast as huge as a horse appeared at the mouth of the den; his small head was laid back on his hairy shoulders, his little eyes gleamed wickedly, and his red mouth opened snarling fiercely.

Undeservedly, the weird and chilling ghost stories of Arthur Christopher Benson and Robert Hugh Benson have been neglected for far too long. This volume attempts to rectify that situation. This dark banquet of tales takes us to strange, unworldly and often archaic environments, far removed from the manic pace and pressures of the twenty-first century, but as exercises in the art of luring the reader into a stat of unease they are as potent as they were when the ink was barely dry on the page.

Stories by A.C. Benson:
“The Temple of Death”
“The Closed Window”
“The Slype House”
“The Red Camp”
“Out of the Sea”
“The Grey Cat”
“The Hill of Trouble”
“Basil Netherby”
“The Uttermost Farthing”

Stories by R.H. Benson:
“The Watcher”
“The Blood Eagle”
“Consolatrix Afflictorium”
“Over the Gateway”
“Father Meuron’s Tale”
“Father Macclesfield’s Tale”
“The Traveler”