Tuesday, June 2, 2015

The Necromancers (1909)


Some few of Benson’s novels have remained in print sporadically.  This is one of them — and, apparently, for all the wrong reasons.  Ostensibly a warning against the dangers of “spiritism,” The Necromancers is actually an insightful psychological study of the effects of grief — and the problems that result from not dealing with it in a human manner. This novel should be considered a “horror classic,” but not in the usual vein.  It has a more than unusually ambiguous, yet typically Benson, ending.


248 pages
ISBN # 9780972982191
$20.00 USD
£14.00 UK






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*Barnes & Noble no longer lists this edition on their website.


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