Review -E.F Benson ' The Outcast and Other Dark Tales'
Sensation fiction moving into the 20th century Decided to have a blog post about the 20th century for a change. The British Library 'Weird Tales' collection features 13 short stories by E.F (Edward Frederick ) Benson ( 1867-1940) . Only two tales were published before 1900 ( Dummy on a Dahabeah 1896 and A Winters Morning 1893) and all have been previously published in collections or magazine with a reasonable circulation apart from Billy Comes Through . These exceptions are the weaker contributions. E. F. Benson, famous son of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and from a literary family is most known for his Mapp and Lucia series, waspish and camp humour set in Rye, East Sussex, (light...