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Arthur Christopher Benson (1862–1925)

Author of The Temple of Death: The Ghost Stories of A. C. & R. H. Benson (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)

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About the Author

Includes the names: Benson A C, A.C. Benson, A. C. Benson, Arthur C. Benson, A. C. Benson. Master, Arthur Chistopher Benson, Arthur Christopher Benson, Arthur Christopher Benson (ed)

Also includes: Christopher Carr (3)

Works by Arthur Christopher Benson

The Temple of Death: The Ghost Stories of A. C. & R. H. Benson (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural) (1600) — Author — 66 copies
From a College Window (1906) 42 copies
Walter Pater (1906) 20 copies
Ghosts in the House: Tales of Terror by A. C. Benson and R. H. Benson (Collins Chillers) (1996) 20 copies
The Thread of Gold (1905) 14 copies
Terrifying ghosts short stories : anthology of new and classic tales (2021) 13 copies
Everybody's Book of the Queen's Dolls' House (1924) 13 copies
Hugh: Memoirs of a Brother (1915) 13 copies
The Upton Letters (1906) 13 copies
The House of Quiet: An Autobiography (1904) 11 copies
Escape and Other Essays (1915) 10 copies
The Altar Fire (1907) 10 copies
Edward Fitzgerald (1905) 10 copies
The Silent Isle (1910) 10 copies
At Large (1908) 10 copies
Beside Still Waters (1907) 9 copies
Souvenir Book of the Queen's Doll's House (1924) 9 copies
Edwardian Excursions (1981) 9 copies
The Schoolmaster (1914) 9 copies
The Child of the Dawn (1912) 8 copies
Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset (1912) 8 copies
Memories and Friends (1924) 8 copies
The Diary of Arthur Christopher Benson (1925) 8 copies
The Life of Edward White Benson, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury (1899) 7 copies
Men of might (1892) 6 copies
Essays (1926) 6 copies
Watersprings (1913) 6 copies
The Isles of Sunset (2006) 6 copies
Father Payne (1916) 5 copies
Where No Fear Was (1914) 5 copies
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge (1886) 5 copies
Joyous Gard (2009) 5 copies
Alfred Tennyson (1904) 4 copies
Ruskin: A Study in Personality (1911) 4 copies
William Laud, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury : a study (2021) 4 copies
Secret Wells: The Speculative Fiction of A. C. Benson (2010) 4 copies
Brontë poems; selections from the poetry of Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë (2010) 4 copies
The leaves of the tree ~ studies in biography (1911) 4 copies
Thy rod and thy staff (1912) 3 copies
The Golden Poets: Poems of Whittier 3 copies
The Reed of Pan 3 copies
The Poems of A.C. Benson (2017) 3 copies
Rossetti (English men of letters) (1970) 3 copies
The Orchard Pavilion (1917) 3 copies
The Life of Edward White Benson, Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, Volume 1 (2012) 3 copies
The hill of trouble and other stories (2015) 3 copies
Life and Letters of Maggie Benson (1917) 3 copies
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of A. C. Benson: One Novel 'The Child of the Dawn,' One Novelette 'The… (2019) 3 copies
The Life of Edward White Benson : sometime Archbishop of Canterbury , vol II (2018) 3 copies
Magdalene College, Cambridge; A Little View of Its Buildings and History (1923) 2 copies
Rambles and Reflections (1926) 2 copies
Along the Road by A. C. Benson by A. C. Benson (1926) 2 copies
The Trefoil: Wellington College, Lincoln (1923) 2 copies
Cressage (1927) 2 copies
Chris Gascoyne. An experiment in solitude. From the diaries of John Trevor (1924) 2 copies
THE HOUSE OF MENERDUE. (1925) 2 copies
The Book of the Queen's dolls' house 2 copies
Tennyson (1908) 2 copies
Out Of The Sea 2 copies
Selected poems (1924) 2 copies
Fasti Etonenses : a biographical history of Eton selected from the lives of celebrated Etonians (1899) 2 copies
The thread of gold, 1 copy
The Hill of Trouble 1 copy
When the Door is Shut and Other Ghost Stories (1986) 1 copy
The Gate of Death: a Diary (1906) 1 copy
Eton School Songs 1 copy
A Cluster of Grapes (Dodo Press) (2007) 1 copy
The House At Treheale 1 copy
Lord Vyet and Other Poems (2016) 1 copy
Mary Benson : a memoir (2010) 1 copy
The Closed Window 1 copy
Bensoniana and Cornishiana (1999) 1 copy
THE PROFESSOR AND OTHER POEMS. (1900) 1 copy
The Canon (1926) 1 copy
The beauty of life: Being selections from the writings of Arthur Christopher Benson (1912) 1 copy
The Letters Of Queen Victoria Vol III 1854--1861 1908 [Leather Bound] 1 copy
Basil Netherby 1 copy
"Escape" 1 copy
Peace, and other poems 1 copy
The life of Edward White Benson,: Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, 1 copy
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The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Contributor, some editions — 554 copies
The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories (1995) — Contributor — 169 copies
The Mammoth Book of Sorcerers' Tales (2004) — Contributor — 165 copies
The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels (1988) — Contributor — 137 copies
The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories (2007) — Contributor — 136 copies
Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology (2021) — Contributor — 116 copies
The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories (1963) — Contributor — 66 copies
100 Fiendish Little Frightmares (1997) — Contributor — 46 copies
There is a Graveyard That Dwells in Man: More Strange Fiction and Hallucinatory Tales (2020) — Contributor — 43 copies
The Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861 (1907) — Editor — 38 copies
Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror (1975) — Contributor — 35 copies
The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861… (1908) — Editor — 34 copies
The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861… (1908) — Editor — 34 copies
The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3,… (1908) — Editor — 28 copies
A Century of Children's Ghost Stories: Tales of Dread and Delight (1995) — Contributor — 27 copies
Soliloquy for Pan (2015) — Contributor — 20 copies
Ghosts and Scholars: Stories in the Tradition of M.R. James (1987) — Contributor — 16 copies
Heroic Adventure Stories: From the Golden Age of Greece and Rome (1996) — Contributor — 16 copies
Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2021) — Contributor — 15 copies
The Taste of Fear: Thirteen Eerie Tales of Horror (1976) — Contributor — 13 copies
A wave of fear: A classic horror anthology (1973) — Contributor — 11 copies
The Thrill of Horror: 22 Terrifying Tales (1975) — Contributor — 9 copies
The Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Gift Book (1915) — Contributor — 6 copies
A Tide of Terror; An Anthology of Rare Horror Stories. (1972) — Contributor — 6 copies
Then and Now. A Selection of Articles, Stories & Poems, Taken from the First Fifty Numbers of ‘Now & Then’,… (1935) — Contributor — 2 copies
BBC Proms 2021 : Prom 46 : Last Night of the Proms 2021 [programme] (2021) — Text — 1 copy
BBC Proms 2020 : Prom 16 : Last Night of the Proms [sound recording] (2020) — Text — 1 copy
BBC Proms 2020 : Prom 16 : Last Night of the Proms [video recording] (2020) — Text — 1 copy
LibriVox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 021 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Other names
Benson, A. C.
Birthdate
1862-04-24
Date of death
1925-06-17
Burial location
Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, UK
Gender
male
Nationality
UK
Birthplace
Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire, England, UK
Place of death
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Education
Eton College
University of Cambridge (King's College)
Occupations
essayist
poet
author
Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
Relationships
Benson, Edward White (father)
Benson, E. F. (brother)
Benson, Robert Hugh (brother)
Benson, Margaret (sister)
Sidgwick, Henry (uncle)
Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred (aunt)
Organizations
Cambridge University
Short biography
Arthur Christopher Benson, FRSL was an English essayist, poet, author and academic and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is noted for having written the words of the song "Land of Hope and Glory"

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The Temple of Death: The Ghost Stories of A. C. & R.… by Arthur Christopher Benson
If you enjoy the stories of E.F. Benson, well, you'll probably hate this book as much as I did. The three brothers did nominally all write spook stories but only one did it well. A certain liveliness of image is almost always ruined here by an overtly Christian moralizing. People donate ill gotten buried treasures to build churches, that sort of thing. A mysterious white figure carries off the now smiling ghost, it having faced its misdeeds made on this mortal coil, finally, from the other side. I'm sure this sort of dreck was wildly popular among the better classes up until the mid-twentieth century. A sort of acceptable spiritualism.

It's all lost on us now even making so called contemporary inspirational fiction seem sophisticated by comparison.… (more)
 
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Gumbywan | Jun 24, 2022 |
At Large by Arthur Christopher Benson
A selection of Benson's essays on various things, which honestly haven't held up all that well. An interesting tidbit or turn of phrase here and there, but mostly I wasn't particularly engaged.
 
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JBD1 | Nov 3, 2020 |
The Silent Isle by Arthur Christopher Benson
Observations recorded while the author was trying to live a simple life.
 
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stmarysasheville | May 21, 2008 |
Hugh - Memoirs Of A Brother by Arthur Christopher Benson
4053 Hugh Memoirs of a Brother, by Arthur Christopher Benson (read 3 Aug 2005) This is a 1915 book by the older brother of Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson, (who died 19 Oct 1914), in the form of a memoir. It is well written and totally admiratory of the brother, even though the author's admiration did not extend to his brother's religious views--both the author and Hugh being sons of an Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury who died in 1896. Easy and enjoyable reading.
 
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Schmerguls | Oct 17, 2007 |
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Works
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Rating
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Reviews
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ISBNs
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