The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of A. C. Benson: One Novel 'The Child of the Dawn, ' One Novelette 'The Uttermost Farthing' and Eight Short Stories of the Strange and Unusual

Tales of ghosts and horrors from a renowned literary academic

Arthur Christopher Benson was born in 1862 one of six children fathered by Edward White Benson, an Archbishop of Canterbury. A. C. Benson (as he is usually known) was an academic who became master of Magdalene College, Cambridge and is today possibly best remembered for writing the stirring lyrics to the British patriotic song 'Land of Hope and Glory' which is part of Elgar's 'Pomp and Circumstance March No 1'. Most of the Benson ...