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The Room in the Tower

By: E. F. Benson
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, best known for his spine-tingling and beautifully written ghost stories. The Room in the Tower is the most famous of these. It describes a horrific recurrent dream of nameless dread, occurring over a period of 15 years, in which the dreamer arrives at a peculiar house inhabited by a sinister silent family, where he takes tea on the lawn and is then shown to the room in the tower where something dreadful, malicious, and evil lurks... though he does not know what. Until one day, he finds himself at the house of his dream, just as tea is being served on the lawn.

Public Domain (P)2014 Red Door Audiobooks Classics Scary Dream

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Great classic ghost story, disgraced by an awful narrator. Unfortunately, story telling isn't Cathy Dobson's strong point making it unpleasant to listen to

Great classic ghost story, disgraced by an awful narrator

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