The Necromancers (1909). By: Robert Hugh Benson: Novel

by Robert Hugh Benson

Book Overview

THE NECROMANCERS Robert Hugh Benson sets out to expose the dangers of "Spiritism," interest in which had reached epidemic proportions by the early twentieth century. C. C. Martindale, S.J. commented that, "It is in THE NECROMANCERS that he brings all his heavy artillery to bear on his professed enemy. Here again the uncanny enters, but rises to the heroic level, and achieves the horrible; and I will confess that I can think of no book which reaches...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1540790940
• ISBN13: 9781540790941
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 10.0"

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!