“The Room in the Tower” is the most famous of Benson’s ghost stories. It describes a horrific recurrent dream of nameless dread, occurring over a period of fifteen years, in which the dreamer arrives at a peculiar house inhabited by a sinister silent family, where he takes tea on the lawn and is then shown to the room in the tower where something dreadful, malicious, and evil lurks … though he does not know what. Until one day, he finds himself at the house of his dream, just as tea is being served on the lawn.
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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.
Cathy Dobson is the author of Planet Germany and a narrator of audiobooks.