The House with the Brick-Kiln | A Ghost Story by E. F. Benson | A Bitesized Audio Production

The manor house in the Sussex hamlet of Trevor Major has lain empty for several years, despite an absurdly cheap rent, until two friends take the house for a fishing holiday, unaware of its dark history...

A new, original recording of a classic public domain text, read and performed by Simon Stanhope for Bitesized Audio.

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Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940) is probably best remembered today for his social satires, the Mapp and Lucia stories. However in his lifetime he was perhaps more famous for his many "spook stories" (as he liked to call them) which he composed regularly for publication in periodicals – usually Hutchinson's or Pearson's magazines – from the late 1890s through to the 1930s. He was born at Wellington College, Berkshire, where his father Edward White Benson (later Archbishop of Canterbury from 1883, until his death in 1896) was then headmaster. His two brothers and sister also became successful writers. A friend and contemporary of M. R. James, the most celebrated of 20th century ghost story authors, Benson was also a member of the Chitchat Club, the Cambridge University literary society where James would read aloud his ghost stories to a select few. As a writer of ghost stories, E. F. Benson's own output includes an unusually wide and adventurous range of styles and themes, encompassing stories of vampires, homicidal spirits, monstrous creatures, as well as satires of charlatan mediums who became so fashionable in the 1920s.

'The House with the Brick-Kiln' first appeared in December 1908 edition of The London Magazine. It was subsequently published in book form as part of Benson's 1912 collection 'The Room in the Tower and Other Stories'.

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