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(Edward Frederic Benson was the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury and member of a distinguished and eccentric family. After attending Marlborough and King's College, Cambridge where he studied classics and archaeology, he worked at the British School of Archaeology in Athens. One of our greatest humorists, he achieved great success at an early age with his first novel, Dodo (1893). He was a prolific author writing over a hundred books: serious novels, ghost stories, plays and biographies. But he is best remembered for his Lucia comedies written between 1920 and 1939 and other comic novels such as Paying Guests and Mrs Ames. He became mayor of Rye, the Sussex town that provided the model for his fictional Tilling, from 1934 to 1937.
Genres: General Fiction, Horror
Series
Mapp and Lucia
1. Queen Lucia (1920)
2. Miss Mapp (1922)
3. Lucia in London (1927)
4. Mapp and Lucia (1931)
5. Lucia's Progress (1935)
aka The Worshipful Lucia
6. Trouble for Lucia (1939)
continued in the series: Mapp and Lucia
1. Queen Lucia (1920)
2. Miss Mapp (1922)
3. Lucia in London (1927)
4. Mapp and Lucia (1931)
5. Lucia's Progress (1935)
aka The Worshipful Lucia
6. Trouble for Lucia (1939)
continued in the series: Mapp and Lucia
Novels
Dodo (1893)
The Rubicon (1894)
The Judgement Books (1895)
Limitations (1896)
The Babe, B.A. (1897)
The Money Market (1898)
The Vintage (1898)
The Capsina (1899)
Mammon and Co. (1899)
The Princess Sophia (1900)
The Luck of the Vails (1901)
Scarlet and Hyssop (1902)
An Act in a Backwater (1903)
The Book of Months (1903)
The Relentless City (1903)
The Valkyries (1903)
The Challoners (1904)
The Angel of Pain (1905)
The Image in the Sand (1905)
The House of Defence (1906)
Paul (1906)
Sheaves (1907)
The Blotting Book (1908)
The Climber (1908)
A Reaping (1909)
Daisy's Aunt (1910)
aka The Fascinating Mrs. Halton
The Osbornes (1910)
Account Rendered (1911)
Juggernaut (1911)
aka Margery
Mrs. Ames (1912)
Dodo's Daughter (1913)
Thorley Wier (1913)
The Weaker Vessel (1913)
Arundel (1914)
Dodo the Second (1914)
The Oakleyites (1915)
David Blaize (1916)
The Freaks of Mayfair (1916)
Michael (1916)
aka Mike
An Autumn Sowing (1917)
Mr. Teddy (1917)
aka The Tortoise
David Blaize and the Blue Door (1918)
Up and Down (1918)
Across the Stream (1919)
Robin Linnet (1919)
Dodo Wonders (1921)
Lovers and Friends (1921)
Peter (1922)
Colin (1923)
Alan (1924)
David of King's (1924)
aka David Blaize of King's
Expiation (1924)
Colin II (1925)
Rex (1925)
A Tale of an Empty House (1925)
Mezzanine (1926)
Pharisees and Publicans (1926)
The Male Impersonator (1929)
The Inheritor (1930)
Secret Lives (1932)
Travail of Gold (1933)
Raven's Brood (1934)
The Rubicon (1894)
The Judgement Books (1895)
Limitations (1896)
The Babe, B.A. (1897)
The Money Market (1898)
The Vintage (1898)
The Capsina (1899)
Mammon and Co. (1899)
The Princess Sophia (1900)
The Luck of the Vails (1901)
Scarlet and Hyssop (1902)
An Act in a Backwater (1903)
The Book of Months (1903)
The Relentless City (1903)
The Valkyries (1903)
The Challoners (1904)
The Angel of Pain (1905)
The Image in the Sand (1905)
The House of Defence (1906)
Paul (1906)
Sheaves (1907)
The Blotting Book (1908)
The Climber (1908)
A Reaping (1909)
Daisy's Aunt (1910)
aka The Fascinating Mrs. Halton
The Osbornes (1910)
Account Rendered (1911)
Juggernaut (1911)
aka Margery
Mrs. Ames (1912)
Dodo's Daughter (1913)
Thorley Wier (1913)
The Weaker Vessel (1913)
Arundel (1914)
Dodo the Second (1914)
The Oakleyites (1915)
David Blaize (1916)
The Freaks of Mayfair (1916)
Michael (1916)
aka Mike
An Autumn Sowing (1917)
Mr. Teddy (1917)
aka The Tortoise
David Blaize and the Blue Door (1918)
Up and Down (1918)
Across the Stream (1919)
Robin Linnet (1919)
Dodo Wonders (1921)
Lovers and Friends (1921)
Peter (1922)
Colin (1923)
Alan (1924)
David of King's (1924)
aka David Blaize of King's
Expiation (1924)
Colin II (1925)
Rex (1925)
A Tale of an Empty House (1925)
Mezzanine (1926)
Pharisees and Publicans (1926)
The Male Impersonator (1929)
The Inheritor (1930)
Secret Lives (1932)
Travail of Gold (1933)
Raven's Brood (1934)
Collections
Six Common Things (1893)
aka A Double Overture
The Room in the Tower (1912)
The Countess of Lowndes Square (1920)
And the Dead Spake and the Horror-Horn (1923)
Visible and Invisible (1923)
Expiation, and Naboth's Vineyard (1924)
The Face (1924)
Spinach, and Reconciliation (1924)
A Tale of an Empty House, and Bagnell Terrace (1925)
The Temple (1925)
Spook Stories (1928)
The Step (1930)
More Spook Stories (1934)
The Horror Horn (1974)
The Tale of the Empty House and Other Ghost Stories (1984)
The Flint Knife (1990)
Desirable Residences (1991)
The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson (1992)
The Technique of the Ghost Story (1993)
Fine Feathers (1994)
Ghost Stories (2016)
aka A Double Overture
The Room in the Tower (1912)
The Countess of Lowndes Square (1920)
And the Dead Spake and the Horror-Horn (1923)
Visible and Invisible (1923)
Expiation, and Naboth's Vineyard (1924)
The Face (1924)
Spinach, and Reconciliation (1924)
A Tale of an Empty House, and Bagnell Terrace (1925)
The Temple (1925)
Spook Stories (1928)
The Step (1930)
More Spook Stories (1934)
The Horror Horn (1974)
The Tale of the Empty House and Other Ghost Stories (1984)
The Flint Knife (1990)
Desirable Residences (1991)
The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson (1992)
The Technique of the Ghost Story (1993)
Fine Feathers (1994)
Ghost Stories (2016)
Novellas and Short Stories
How Fear Departed the Long Gallery (1912)
The Man Who Went Too Far (1912)
The Terror by Night (1912)
Mrs Amworth (1923)
The Man Who Went Too Far (1912)
The Terror by Night (1912)
Mrs Amworth (1923)
Series contributed to
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Books containing stories by E F Benson
Haunted Tales (2022)
Classic Stories of Ghosts and the Supernatural
edited by
Leslie S Klinger and Lisa Morton
Our Haunted Shores (2022)
Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles
edited by
Emily Alder, Jimmy Packham and Joan Passey
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