Publisher Description
“At the Farmhouse” tells the story of a landscape painter, who after twenty years of hideous marriage to an abusive and drunken local woman who is rumored to be a witch, sets off to murder her. In his pocket is a ball of strong twine with which he will strangle her, and a box of matches with which he will set light to the farmhouse to destroy the evidence of his crime. After that he will be free. What happens when he reaches the farmhouse is gruesome, uncanny and totally unexpected.
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About E. F. Benson
Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940) was born in Berkshire, England, and educated at Cambridge. He worked in Athens for the British School of Archaeology and later in Egypt for the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. Benson wrote fiction, reminiscences, and biographies, but is best remembered for his arch satirical novels and his urbane autobiographical studies of Edwardian and Georgian society.