Short Stories

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Six Common Things, published by Osgood Mclivaine in 1893. Published as A Double Overture, by Sergel Chicago in 1894.

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The Room in The Tower, and Other Stories, published by Mills & Boon in 1912, included The Bus-Conductor which first published in The Pall Mall Magazine in 1906. The US edition was published by Alfred A Knopf. "The Terror by Night" not included in the US first edition.

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The Freaks of Mayfair, published by Foulis in 1916, illustrated by George Plank in black & white. This is a set of sketches of characters many of who appear in other books including 'Aunt Georgie' (shown above) and 'Mrs Weaton' who appear in the Mapp & Lucia books as George Pillson and Daisy Quantock.

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The Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories, published by Cassell in 1920, Decorated light blue-gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in dark blue (as above, although this may be the US edition), This collection includes a group of four "Spook Stories": "The Case of Frank Hampden," "Mrs. Andrew's Control," "The Ape" (termed "excellent" by Bleiler) and "'Through,'" none of which were reprinted in Benson collections during his lifetime. In addition, the collection includes two other tales ("The Countess of Lowndes Square" and "The Blackmailer of Park Lane") and two "Crank Stories" ("The Tragedy of Oliver Bowman" and "Philip's Safety Razor").

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Visible and Invisible, published by Hutchinson in 1923. Two of the stories were published as "And the Dead Spake—", and The Horror Horn, by Doran, New York in 1923.

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Spook Stories, published by Hutchinson in 1928 undated. Several of the stories had previously been published separately in the USA by Doran, New York including; Expiation, and Naboth's Vineyard (1924), The Face, The Temple and A Tale of an Empty House (all in 1925)

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The Step, published by H V Marrot in 1930, this became the first story in More Spook Stories, listed below

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More Spook Stories, published by Hutchinson in 1934. The dust jackets above have been copied, with permission, from, http://www.facsimiledustjackets.com/

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The Flint Knife: Further Spook Stories; published by Equation in 1988, paperback. Contains twelve ghost stories none of which had previously been published in volume form, plus the three ghost tales which had appeared in The Countess of Lowndes Square.

Fine Feathers and Other Stories, published by Oxford University Press, in 1994. Divided into thematic sections including 'Crook Stories', 'Sardonic Stories', 'Society Stories', Crank Stories', and 'Spook Stories'. (The three 'Spook Stories' printed here do not appear in either The Flint Knife or The Collected Ghost Stories).

********************************************************************************************************************************************************The companion volume; Desirable Residences and other stories, published by Oxford University Press in 1991, selected by Jack Adrian can be seen on the Mapp & Lucia page - https://sites.google.com/site/efbensonfirsteditions/mapp-lucia .

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The Technique of the Ghost Story, published by Hermitage Books in 1993. It contains an article about writing ghost stories and three short supernatural stories which appeared in magazines in the 1920s, none of which had appeared in book form before. Limited to 50 numbered copies.

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The Exposure of Pamela, published by Hermitage Books in 1992. Reprinted from 'The Storyteller' August 1924 and included in the ;Fine Feathers' collection above. Limited to 75 numbered copies.

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Some Social Criminals, published in 1995 by the E.F. Benson Society. Six short stories and an introduction by Benson, first published in 'The Onlooker' magazine during October & November 1901

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