The Room in the Tower

E.F. Benson (1867-1940) was, together with M.R. James, one of the Victorian masters of the "ghost story", a territory of terror whose exploration initiated the great Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Benson and James belonged to the same literary society of Cambridge, the Chitchat Society, and they maintained a good relationship for fifty years. Like James, Benson tries to get away from the classic scenarios of ruins, passageways and darkness, to introduce horror into the most familiar ...