The Man Who Went Too Far: An E. F. Benson Ghost Story

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Greg Wagland

The Man Who Went Too Far: A Ghost Story by E. F. Benson opens one summer’s day in a beautiful, sequestered garden on the edge of the New Forest. A forty-something artist visits a friend to recuperate from a debilitating illness but is staggered to discover him looking remarkably young and oddly vibrant. He listens as this ‘boy’ explains his new found philosophy, expands on the delight he takes in the natural world all around him and describes the strangely haunting music he has begun to hear in the woods and among the reeds. Surely this bucolic idyll cannot last...

E. F. Benson is well known for his Mapp and Lucia novels but his ghost and supernatural stories are marvellous jewels, combining elegant writing and moments of blood-curdling horror. Here Greg Wagland narrates one of the best of them, for Magpie Audio.

©2011 Public Domain (P)2011 Magpie Audio

fascinating

If you could sum up The Man Who Went Too Far: An E. F. Benson Ghost Story in three words, what would they be?

intriguing little tale

Any additional comments?

it was most interesting to read this little tale with a différence. As a lover of EF Benson's Mapp & Lucia stories, I was keen to read a piece by him from a different genre - indeed I'd no idée that he wrote