Lucia in London
 Not much testosterone, but plenty of chuckles.: Lucia Lucas (born Emmeline Smith) wished the world to know that the recent death of her husband's aunt, who was 83 years old and who had spent the last seven of them bed-ridden in a private lunatic asylum, [... more]
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The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
Another nightmarish collection from Gilbert and Cox: The horror genre is cluttered with hackwork, and imitations of hackwork--H.P. Lovecraft seems to have spawned a particularly virulent strain of the latter. However one of its subgenres, i.e. the ghost [... more]
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Trouble for Lucia
Mapp and Lucia as mayoress and mayor.: Having worn mayoral robes himself, it is not surprising that writer E F Benson should have allowed readers of his Lucia novels to see how that scheming, contriving, arch social climbing lady would do the same when [... more]
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Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
From Amazon.com: This bargain of a book is a thick hardcover anthology--more than 1,000 pages long--containing stories of naturalistic and supernatural terror. First published in 1944, it has stood the test of time and become a classic in the field. [... more]
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Gothic Short Stories
Good Historical Compilation of Gothic Stories: The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole is credited as the first Gothic novel. Walpole's farfetched story of the supernatural ran counter to the rational, enlightened culture of the eighteenth century. [... more]
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Blue Heaven
THE funniest story I know!: When we were seven and eight, my brother and I used to be Lucy and Ethel as the outer space moo-moos who landed on top of the Empire State Building and this book turns the same trick: people I know who read it, cite scene [... more]
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Mapp & Lucia
like dynasty on smart pills: What a delightful book! The bitchiness is fabulous--after reading Queen Lucia and Miss Mapp, I absolutely could not wait to find out what happened when the two of them crossed paths. This entire series is a can't miss, and I [... more]
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Mapp & Lucia: Series 1
From Amazon.com: Based on E.F. Benson's stories, this beloved 1986 British miniseries makes its long-awaited DVD debut in a two-disc set that contains all five episodes from the first season. The incomparable Prunella Scales (best-loved as dragon lady [... more]
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The Lost Stradivarius
Timeless ghost story: The ghost story is by & large ideally realized as a short story or at most novella -- the greatest masters, such as M. R. James, never even attempted the novel form; & those who did both short stories and novels, such as E. [... more]
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The Blotting Book
Author: E. F. Benson Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781598187199 ISBN: 1598187198 Number Of Pages: 108 Publication Date: 2005-11 [... more]
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Merry Hall
passing the torch: Just as Trollope passed the literary torch to Angela Thirkell, so did E. F. Benson pass his to this good fellow! Mr. Nichols' trilogy about Merry Hall is so entertaining, even though at times he comes across as a bit "twee". [... more]
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Michael
Author: E. F. Benson Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781598184303 ISBN: 159818430X Number Of Pages: 264 Publication Date: 2005-06 [... more]
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