The Necromancers

by Robert Hugh Benson

Book Overview

A young man is distraught after losing his fianc?e to a terminal illness. He soon becomes involved with a group of spiritualists in order to contact her. This leads to a frightening series of events. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1979169241
• ISBN13: 9781979169240
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Terrors of the Mind

Like Henry James, M.R. James, and Roger Pater, R.H. Benson is a specialist in pure terror based on the imagination. Here he both satirizes the spiritualist excesses of the period (not unlike our own!); the self-satisfaction of a young man who imagines himself in love; and intently describes the dangers of opening one's life to pure evil. Deluded by his own ego, deceived by his imagination, the central character is profoundly endangered. Without a drop of blood or a single zombie, Benson unsettles the reader's basic ideas of reality!