Some Pickups from Recent Travels: A.C. Benson, R. H. Benson, and M.P. Shiel

Some pickups from recent travels. Some people know that I read a lot of horror literature, with a specific interest in gothic literature and the classic British ghost story. E.F. Benson is one of the most famous and highly regarded of British ghost story writers. What I didn’t know (and most people don’t) is that his two brothers also wrote ghost stories, although they didn’t have their middle…