Benson's fantasy stories are well known, and some verge on sf: they can be found in The Room in the Tower and Other Stories (coll 1912) The Countess of Lowndes Square (coll 1920) Visible and Invisible (coll 1923), which includes "And the Dead Spoke. (1867-1940) UK author, brother of A C Benson and Robert Hugh Benson and by far the most prolific of the three as far as fiction is concerned, with dozens of attractive, realistic novels and romances to his credit, and a number of novels involving the supernatural, the most telling of these being perhaps his first in this mode, The Judgment Books ( 1895), which shows the influence of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (July 1890 Lippincott's Monthly exp 1891).
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