Premium Short Stories Collection - Blackmailing, Crank, Spook & Classic Tales (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Edwardian Ghost Stories, Social Satire, and Classic Weird TalesBy E. F. Benson
Length17h 18m
About this audiobook
Premium Short Stories Collection - Blackmailing, Crank, Spook & Classic Tales gathers E. F. Benson's compact mastery of social comedy, moral unease, and supernatural suggestion. Moving between drawing-room intrigue, eccentric obsession, and ghostly disturbance, these tales display the polished surfaces and darker undertones of late Victorian and Edwardian short fiction. Benson's prose is elegant, ironic, and sharply observant, balancing urbane wit with an instinct for the uncanny and the psychologically grotesque. Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940), born into a distinguished clerical and intellectual family, was the son of Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury. Educated at Marlborough and King's College, Cambridge, he inhabited the social worlds he so often anatomized: respectable, cultivated, competitive, and quietly ruthless. Best known today for the Mapp and Lucia novels, Benson also wrote prolifically in the ghost-story tradition, bringing to it a modern sensitivity to repression, vanity, and social performance. This collection is recommended for readers who enjoy classic short fiction with both elegance and bite. Admirers of M. R. James, Saki, Henry James, and Edith Wharton will find in Benson a distinctive voice: urbane, unsettling, and consistently entertaining.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length17 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 10, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Premium Short Stories Collection - Blackmailing, Crank, Spook & Classic Tales (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Historical Context
4Synopsis (Selection)
5The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories (pt. 1)
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6The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories (pt. 2)
7The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories (pt. 3)
8The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories (pt. 4)
9The Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories
10BLACKMAILING STORIES
11GENERAL STORIES
12CAT STORIES
13CRANK STORIES
14SPOOK STORIES
15Analysis
16Reflection
17Memorable Quotes
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