The Face: Collected Spook Stories Volume Four
- Written by E. F. Benson
- ISBN: 1-55310-052-2 (978-1-55310-052-2)
- Format: Hardcover, xxii + 187pp
- Publish Date: Apr 30, 2003
- Original Price: C$59.00 / US$45.00 / £28.00
- Genre: Horror
- Publication Type: Collection
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E. F. Benson
E. F. Benson, this collected edition will present all the recently discovered weird tales from The Flint Knife: Further Spook Stories (1988), and those from the "Spook Stories" sections of Desirable Residences (1991) and Fine Feathers (1994), as well as any "new" supernatural stories which may surface in the course of further research. It will also feature a radical rearranging of the stories themselves into their chronological order of composition and publication.
About
The Face - the fourth volume in the series - covers the four year period between December 1923 and November 1927. Although Fred’s output of spook stories had slowed down somewhat from the heady days of 1922/23, he was still able to turn out shiver-inducing tales of the haunting and horrific, as in the menacing “A Tale of an Empty House”, the prophetic “Corstophine”, and one of the author’s most masterly tales, the terrifying “The Face”.
Edition Details
- Dust Jacket illustrated by Douglas Walters.
- This is a full clothbound edition limited to 600 copies.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Naboth's Vineyard
- The Face
- Spinach
- Reconciliation
- Corstophine
- The Temple
- The Tale of an Empty House
- Bagnell Terrace
- The Corner House
- And No Bird Sings . . .
- The Call
- The Bath-Chair
- The Dance
- Home, Sweet Home
- By the Sluice
- Appendix: 'EFB, Ward Lock, and dust-jackets
- Sources
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External Links
- The Face: Collected Spook Stories Volume Four. ISFDB entry for The Face: Collected Spook Stories Volume Four