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Friday February 23rd, 2007

• The Library • The Supernatural -- Benson, E. F.

Mrs. Amworth

...I heard my knocker plied in the cheerful and peremptory manner in which Mrs. Amworth is accustomed to announce her arrival, and I went to the door to open it. "Come in at once," I said, "and save me from having my blood curdled. Mr. Urcombe has been trying to alarm me."
"Ah, but how lovely!" she said. "I delight in having my blood curdled. Go on with your ghost-story, Mr. Urcombe. I adore ghost-stories." more...

Friday February 16th, 2007

• The Library • The Supernatural -- Machen, Arthur

The Great God Pan

"I hate melodrama, and nothing strikes me as more commonplace and tedious than the ordinary ghost story of commerce; but really, Villiers, it looks as if there were something very queer at the bottom of all this."

Note: one of the most original and influential stories of the genre.
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Friday February 9th, 2007

• The Library • The Supernatural -- Benson, E. F.

Caterpillars

"Most ghosts, when all is said and done, do not do much harm; they may perhaps terrify, but the person whom they visit usually gets over their visitation. . . . But the appearances in the Villa Cascana were not beneficent, and had they made their 'visit' in a very slightly different manner, I do not suppose I should have got over it any more than Arthur Inglis did." more...

Sunday October 31st, 2004

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