![]() ![]() There is therefore no longer any reason for refraining from writing of those things which I myself saw (or imagined I saw) in a certain room and on a certain landing of the villa in question, nor from mentioning the circumstances which followed, which may or may not (according to the opinion of the reader) throw some light on or be somehow connected with this experience. I saw a month or two ago in an Italian paper that the Villa Cascana, in which I once stayed, had been pulled down, and that a manufactory of some sort was in process of erection on its site. The following story, “Caterpillars,” is one of Benson’s most widely anthologized stories, most recently collected in The Century’s Best Horror Fiction 1901 – 1950 (Cemetery Dance), edited by John Pelan. One of his short stories, “The Bus-Conductor,” served as inspiration for two different high profile adaptations, as part of the classic anthology film Dead of Night and as an episode of The Twilight Zone (“Twenty Two”). He also developed a reputation for writing macabre ghost stories and other stories of the supernatural, which have been adapted for film and television. A prolific writer, Benson created the famous Mapp and Lucia series, which satirized upper-middle class British life in the 1920s and 30s. Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. ![]()
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