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A short story from the British Library Tales of the Weird collection The Outcast and Other Dark Tales by E.F. Benson.

It’s Christmas in the Chandler household, and as the party gather around the fire, their host Everard recalls a ghostly tale from the previous Christmas in the misty forests of Scotland.

Two friends, one a believer in the supernatural and the other a sceptic, talk about a night they spent in a "haunted" house, which brought no results. But then the sceptic surprises his friend by telling of a very strange experience which happened to him a year earlier...

К чему готовиться, если постоянно слышишь жужжание мух? Что может скрываться в отражении хрустального шара? Как действовать, если оживает твой автопортрет?
Эдвард Фредерик Бенсон, интеллектуал и историк британской монархии, автор десятков "страшных рассказов" и любимец мэтров хоррора, по-прежнему остается писателем, недооцененным потомками. А между тем в своих произведениях он часто рассказывал об ужасах, имевших место в его собственной семье.

Sussex, 1912: Beängstigende Alpträume plagen Clive Fellows über Jahre hinweg und prophezeien ihm einen schaurigen Aufenthalt in einem Turmzimmer. Als er von einem neuen Freund in dessen Anwesen eingeladen wird, um dort die Nacht zu verbringen, scheint sich der Traum zu bewahrheiten. Ausgerechnet im Turm soll er untergebracht werden, und dieser kommt ihm merkwürdig bekannt vor, vor allem das dort hängende Portrait …

Mit den bekannten Stimmen von Simon Jäger, Jens Wawrczeck, Luise Lunow, Ursula Sieg, Marc Gruppe und Jürgen Thormann.

Die Reihe Gruselkabinett wurde bereits mit dem HörKules, dem Hörspiel-Award, dem Vincent-Preis, dem Nyctalus, dem Ohrkanus und dem Deutschen Phantastik-Preis ausgezeichnet!

"Just room for one inside, sir," isn't quite as bone-chilling as hearing "room for one more, honey" in one of the Twilight Zone's most popular episodes, "Twenty Two." The Rod Serling masterpiece was inspired by E.F. Benson's "The Bus-Conductor". A ghost bears the chilling news instead of a recurring dream in Benson's chiller.

Award-winning audiobook narrator Mike Vendetti brings The Bus-Conductor, pardon the pun, to life.

"Between the Lights" is a Christmas ghost story by the British author, E. F. Benson. It first appeared in his 1912 collection, "The Room in the Tower and Other Stories". What was it that Everard Chandler experienced on the croquet lawn?

A gathering of friends at Christmastime culminates in an exchange of ghost stories, in which some of the tales told prove just as weird as they are horrifying

Mrs. Amworth by E. F. Benson, The village of Maxley, where, last summer and autumn, these strange events took place, lies on a heathery and pine-clad upland of Sussex. In all England you could not find a sweeter and saner situation. Should the wind blow from the south, it comes laden with the spices of the sea; to the east high downs protect it from the inclemencies of March; and from the west and north the breezes which reach it travel over miles of aromatic forest and heather… Among the most significant works Edward Frederic Benson: And the dead Spoke…, The Outcast, Machon, Negotium Perambulans…, At the Farmhouse, Inscrutable Decrees, The Gardener, Mr Tilly's Seance, Mrs Amworth, In the Tube, Roderick's Story, The Horror Horn, The Mapp and Lucia, The Inheritor, Secret Lives, Naboth's Vineyard, At the Farmhouse, The Wishing-Well, The Terror by Night, The Thing in the Hall, The Cat, The Sanctuary.

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost stories. Expiation is a real gem of a ghost story. Two old friends rent a lonely house in an idyllic but remote part of Cornwall. But within a short time of their arrival, they become aware of a mystery about the house. Why does the vicar behave so oddly when they enquire about a recent grave with the same family name as the owner of the house they have rented? Why does the housekeeper insist on the narrator's changing rooms suddenly? Why does the…

1932 im Örtchen Maxley im ländlichen Sussex: der Pensionär Emmet Foster und der Professor im Ruhestand Francis Urbridge, Experte für alles Okkulte, sind Nachbarn in dem kleinen verschlafenen Städtchen, durch dessen Mitte die Landstraße führt, die London mit dem Küstenort Brighton verbindet. Mit dem Zuzug der mysteriösen Mrs. Amworth, die lange in Indien gelebt hat, beginnen merkwürdige Dinge in Maxley zu geschehen…

Mit den bekannten Stimmen von Sven Dahlem, Anita Lochner, Eckart Dux, Marius Clarén und Jochen Schröder.

Die Reihe Gruselkabinett wurde bereits mit dem HörKules, dem Hörspiel-Award, dem Vincent-Preis, dem Nyctalus, dem Ohrkanus und dem Deutschen Phantastik-Preis ausgezeichnet!

Зловещие истории о пришельцах из загробного мира, о неупокоенных мертвецах, о леденящих душу шепотах в темноте, о неведомом и непознанном мире, таящемся за тонкой завесой реальности. Всё это - в авторском сборнике Эдварда Фредерика Бенсона - "Кошмары"!

The Worshipful Lucia (published in the UK as 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.

E. F. Benson’s beloved Mapp and Lucia novels are sparkling, classic comedies of manners set against the petty snobberies and competitive maneuverings of English village society in the 1920s and 1930s.

The third and fourth novels in the series, Lucia in London (1927) and Mapp and Lucia (1931) continue the adventures of Benson’s famously irrepressible characters, and bring them into hilarious conflict. Both Mrs. Lucia Lucas and Miss Elizabeth Mapp are accustomed to complete social supremacy, and when one intrudes on the other’s territory, war ensues. Lucia sees herself as a benevolent—if ruthless—dictator, while Miss Mapp is driven by an insatiable desire for vengeance against the presumptuous interloper. Their skirmishes—played out on a battlefield composed of dinner parties, council meetings, and art exhibits—enliven the plots of Benson’s maliciously witty comedies.

E. F. Benson’s beloved Mapp and Lucia novels are sparkling, classic comedies of manners set against the petty snobberies and competitive maneuverings of English village society in the 1920s and 1930s.

Benson’s series revolves around two unforgettable characters, both forceful and irrepressible women who dominate their respective villages in southern England and who will eventually end up hilariously at war with each other. Lucia is the more deadly of the two, with her pretentious tastes, treacherous charm, and lust for power. Miss Elizabeth Mapp, on the other hand, is younger and more forceful and able to terrify her opponents into submission. Benson introduces these splendid comic creations in the first two novels of the series, Queen Lucia (1920) and Miss Mapp (1922).

Зловещие истории о пришельцах из загробного мира, о неупокоенных мертвецах, о леденящих душу шепотах в темноте, о неведомом и непознанном мире, таящемся за тонкой завесой реальности.
Всё это - в авторском сборнике Эдварда Фредерика Бенсона - "Призраки"!

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his masterly and uncanny ghost stories. One of the most famous of these is "The Bus Conductor". It is a deceptively simple tale of a mysterious apparition which comes into view on an ordinary London street under most peculiar circumstances. The chilling catchphrase spoken by the mysterious figure: "Just room for one inside, Sir" takes on an altogether sinister meaning.

Miss Elizabeth Mapp reigns supreme over the village of Tilling...until the advent of Mrs Emmeline Lucas, or 'Lucia' to her friends. No one could compete, surely, with Lucia's formidable armoury: her duchesses, her Italian, her financial speculations, her celebrated recipe for Lobster a la Riseholme. But Mapp will not relinquish her supremacy in local society so easily, and battle is joined between these two indomitable queens and their rather fickle allies.

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY WH Auden, Nancy Mitford and Noel Coward were among his fans... But have you discovered E. F. Benson yet? Morris Assheton is in love and means to be married. But his happiness is spoilt when he discovers that someone has been whispering poisonous rumours about him to the girl’s father. The culprit is Mills, dastardly partner to the Assheton family's trusted lawyer. Morris vows revenge. When Mills’ body is discovered, brutally beaten, the ugly quarrel comes to light and suspicion naturally falls on Morris. His innocence is debated in a tense courtroom, as an eager public and press look on. Murder mystery... Courtroom drama. This is a classic whodunnit from the author of Mapp and Lucia. Crime fiction at its best.

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY WH Auden, Nancy Mitford and Noel Coward were among his fans... But have you discovered E. F. Benson yet? In a Holbein portrait above the grand old fireplace, Francis Vail, second baronet, brandishes a beautiful golden goblet, encrusted with pearls, rubies and emeralds. But this treasure, the Luck of the Vails, has since brought the family nothing but ruin and death. On the eve of his twenty-first birthday, Harry Vail discovers the Luck hidden in the attic of his ancestral home, the family curse is reawoken, and a tale of madness, avarice and murder unfolds. Murder mystery... Ghost story... Whodunnit. This is a classic detective story from the author of Mapp and Lucia. Crime fiction at its best.