THE HORROR-HORN | E.F. BENSON | PODCAST

First published in Hutchinson's Magazine, September 1922. An unidentified narrator is spending a holiday in Switzerland with his cousin 'Professor Ingram, the celebrated physiologist and alpine climber' ¹. Prompted by news from the Everest expedition, during which, so he says, "they thought they came across the tracks of some naked human foot at a great altitude," Ingram recalls an occasion 20 years previously when he saw a 'wild man' on that mountain out there, the Ungeheuerhorn (Horror Horn).

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THE FACE | E.F. BENSON | PODCAST

E.F. Benson's short horror story “The Face” tells the tale of Hester Ward, a young and beautiful married woman who has a recurring nightmare about a hideous and terrifying face. This same face had appeared to her ten years earlier, prophesying its return when she is older. Hester confides in her husband about her strange nightmares, but he is skeptical and dismissive.
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As the story unfolds, Hester’s nightmares intensify, and she becomes increasingly convinced that the face is a harbinger of doom. The tale builds tension and suspense, exploring themes of foreboding, depression, and the supernatural.

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