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Readers who like ghost stories told by firelight, haunted rooms with clear layouts and puzzling cases of the unseen will enjoy this book.
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Imagine the same dream visiting you for fifteen years. A red-brick house, tea on a hot lawn, a silent family, and one sentence from the lady of the house, who says that Jack will show you to the room in the tower. You wake in terror every time. Then one summer day, you step out of a car and find the house is real.
This is the opening story of The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories by E. F. Benson, a collection of seventeen ghost tales. Benson wrote them to give readers a few pleasant shivers before bed. Most are told by a friend beside the fire, in calm, clear English, which makes the dread feel close.
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- 1A recurring dream leads to a real houseFree
- 2Ghosts reach different people through different senses
- 3The dead press their unfinished business on the living
- 4Local belief can turn dangerous or become family habit
- 5Strange signs come before anything happens
- 6A man chases joy and listens for Pan
- 7Rooms and houses keep what happened in them
- 8Benson treats ghosts as strong feeling left behind
- 9Fear is the real subject and courage answers it
- 10Calm tellers and cosy rooms make dread close
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A recurring dream leads to a real house
The title story opens with a narrator who dreams nearly every night and finds most of his dreams ordinary. Then he warns that the story that follows has no easy explanation at all.
At about sixteen, he begins to dream of a large red-brick house. A servant leads him through a dark hall to tea on the lawn, where he meets the family of a schoolmate named Jack Stone. Everyone sits in silence in an airless heat. Then Mrs. Stone tells him that Jack will show him to the room in the tower. His heart sinks, because he knows something dreadful waits there. The door closes behind him, and the terror wakes him.
The dream returns about once a month for fifteen years, and the family ages as real people do. Then, on a drive through Sussex, he wakes at a doorway and finds the house from his dreams. The hostess speaks the old sentence. Benson makes the dread arrive before any proof.
A dream can become a place you are able to walk into.
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- LengthAbout 78,200 words
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Questions about La Chambre dans la tour et autres histoires
What is The Room in the Tower and Other Stories about?
It is a collection of seventeen ghost stories by E. F. Benson. They range from a dream house that proves real to a phantom car, a haunted hotel bed and a condemned man who telephones his doctor.
Is The Room in the Tower a true story?
No. It is fiction, written as a first-person tale of a recurring dream. Benson often presents his stories as things told by a friend or witness, which gives them the feel of a genuine account.
Which stories does the collection include?
Besides the title story, it contains The Dust-Cloud, Gavon's Eve, The Confession of Charles Linkworth, At Abdul Ali's Grave, Caterpillars, The Cat, The Bus Conductor, The Man Who Went Too Far and The Thing in the Hall, among others.
Is it easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that the language is clear and each tale is self-contained. Most are told in a plain, conversational voice by someone sitting by a fire, so you can read one at a time.
What is the main idea behind Benson's ghosts?
Several characters suggest that strong emotion, such as terror or guilt, can be left in a place and picked up later by sensitive people. Benson shares the idea but lets skeptics argue back.
Cite this edition
Benson, E. F. The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-room-in-the-tower-and-other-stories.
Benson, E. F. (2026). The room in the tower, and other stories. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-room-in-the-tower-and-other-stories (Original work published 1912)
Benson, E. F. The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-room-in-the-tower-and-other-stories.
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