The Room in the Tower

E.F. Benson (1867-1940) was, together with M.R. James, one of the Victorian masters of the "ghost story", a territory of terror whose exploration initiated the great Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Benson and James belonged to the same literary society of Cambridge, the Chitchat Society, and they maintained a good relationship for fifty years. Like James, Benson tries to get away from the classic scenarios of ruins, passageways and darkness, to introduce horror into the most familiar areas of daily life, where the forces of the unknown lurk. However, Benson's stories-less erudite, less elusive, perhaps more disquieting than Dr. James's-insist on exploring the darkest areas of the human psyche, strange phenomena and the world of dreams, and they manage to transmit through a controlled writing and full of resources their favorite emotion - also ours -: terror. Published for the first time in our country in the Gothic collection of Valdemar, the stories gathered in La habitación de la torre, 13 stories of ghosts, by E.F. Benson, invite a disturbing tour of an extensive spectrum gallery. The true lover of the exquisite pleasures of fear, the one who would sell his soul to the devil for a good tale of terror should not be missed: E.F. Benson will surprise you.

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