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The Temple of Death
The Temple of Death | Robert Hugh Benson, A. C. Benson
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The great oaken gate heaved and splintered, and a monstrous beast as huge as a horse appeared at the mouth of the den; his small head was laid back on his hairy shoulders, his little eyes gleamed wickedly, and his red mouth opened snarling fiercely.'Undeservedly, the weird and chilling ghost stories of Arthur Christopher Benson and Robert Hugh Benson have been neglected for far too long. This volume attempts to rectify that situation. This dark banquet of tales take us to strange, unworldly and often archaic environments, far removed from the manic pace and pressures of the twenty-first century, but as exercises in the art of luring the reader into a state of unease, they are as potent as they were when the ink was barely dry on the page.
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The Temple of Death | Robert Hugh Benson, A. C. Benson
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Mehso-so

A.C. Benson was a better writer than R.H.

I wonder if R.H. heard that his whole life.

Image from Wikipedia, showing E.F. (author of Mapp and Lucia novels), R.H. (the priest), and A.C. (the other brother). There was also a sister, Maggie, but as typical, she wasn't known for much and wasn't in the picture.

Of course she is the one I want to know more about now.

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The Temple of Death | Robert Hugh Benson, A. C. Benson
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My next #spooktober book is The Temple of Death: The Ghost Stories of A.C. and R.H. Benson, the less famoud brothers of E.F. Benson who was known for Mapp and Lucia. Has anyone here read that one?

First story is classic good v. evil, which is always a jolly time.

Also, the perfect holiday bookmark.