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The Light Invisible
Robert Hugh Benson
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The form of the book is of an old English Roman Catholic priest telling stories to his young friend. Benson wrote prolifically in many genres. His horror and ghost fiction are collected in The Light Invisible (1903) and A Mirror of Shalott (1907)
The form of the book is of an old English Roman Catholic priest telling stories to his young friend. Benson wrote prolifically in many genres. His horror and ghost fiction are collected in The Light Invisible (1903) and A Mirror of Shalott (1907)
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“Then I turned again to the piteous little body, feeling that at least I had tried to make amends. There was an old rabbit hole near, the grass growing down in its mouth, and a tangle of web and dead leaves behind. I scooped a little space out among the leaves, and then laid the thru. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
3.25⭐
The Light Invisible published in 1906 is an episodic collection of chilling stories told to the narrator by an elderly priest. With its curious mixture of faith, history and assassination, we are presented with quite a satisfactory piece of supernatural fiction.
Preface ✔
The Green Robe 3⭐
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I enjoyed these thought-provoking short stories of private apparitions.
These 1903 stories by Robert Hugh Benson, the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury who was gay and became a Roman Catholic Priest, are an attempt to imagine a Roman Catholic version of the supernatural tale popular around the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The stories are distinctive
This review was previously posted on the Side Real Press website in 2012.
It is hard to imagine that anyone will be unaware of the ghost stories of the Benson Brothers, Arthur, Robert and Edward. Many put their best works on a par with M.R. James (they attended his Christmas story readings at Eton).
A surprising and thought provoking book, but I'm struggling to think who I would recommend it to.
Firstly, this is not a book of ghost stories, as some reviews bill it. Of the dozen or so short vignettes, only one has a ghost proper (and even then, the story challenges us to decide which interpretati
I really enjoyed these inter-connected short stories written by Catholic priest Robert Hugh Benson in the late 19th century. The stories blur the line between the spiritual plane and our everyday life.
This is described as "a series of interconnected supernatural short stories" which made me think of ghost stories. However, it might more properly be called a series of connected vignettes displaying God in all circumstances, using a variety of images. It wasn't a bad book if that is what you were e
Interesting trip to the border were sobrenatural reality can be glanced for a moment. A cristian view of the beyond-phisics things around us.