The Ghost Stories of E F Benson
The author fervently wishes his listeners a few uncomfortable moments...
An occasional series of readings of ghost stories by the writer of the Mapp and Lucia novels.
You can download or listen to individual stories using the links below, or subscribe to the podcast feed
- Naboth's Vineyard – Something has come in to the house. Come in out of the rain...
- “And the Dead Spake…” – “Surely this is the strangest manner of song ever yet heard on the earth, this melody from the brain of the dead…”
- The Cat – It is not only the dead who haunt the living.
- The Man Who Went Too Far – “I can't go back now. I wouldn't if I could; not a step would I retrace…”
- Negotium Perambulans (live) – Recorded in front of an audience at E F Benson’s home, Lamb House in Rye.
- Negotium Perambulans – “One of the things invisible, of the dark powers, leaped into light, and I saw it with my eyes…”
- The Other Bed – “I knew I was not alone in the room. There was something there, something silent as yet, and as yet invisible. But it was there.”
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