The tutor shares about a late read.

Two days prior, I’d never heard of E.F. Benson. However, the horror anthology I mention in my post of November 10 includes his “The Room in the Tower.”

The title attracted me. Benson writes with gentlemanly ease, lulling you into the setting. The story is setting-focused, rather than character-focused, which plays to my taste. Benson describes the setting repeatedly, with a difference here or there from last time; the differences develop the story’s suspense. “The Room in the Tower” is written in first-person.

I highly recommend “The Room in the Tower.” It’s ten Classic Tales of Horror pages, but might be twenty in a paperback – the perfect length for an interlude.

Source:

Padgett, Joann (Ed.) et al. Classic Tales of Horror. San Diego: Canterbury Classics,   2015.

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