The Dust-Cloud

Name: The Dust-Cloud
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: E. F. Benson
ISBN: 9781467696715

Author: E. F. Benson

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Red Door Consulting

Published: 10/30/2014

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Short Stories

Synopsis

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost stories.

"The Dust-Cloud" tells the story of a very unusual ghost. The apparition is a reconstruction of a dreadful car accident in which a child is run over and the driver subsequently crashes and is killed. But what actually happened that night? And could it have been something more sinister than a simple accident?

About E. F. Benson

Edward Frederic Benson (1867â€“1940) was born in Berkshire, England, and educated at Cambridge. He worked in Athens for the British School of Archaeology and later in Egypt for the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. Benson wrote fiction, reminiscences, and biographies, but is best remembered for his arch satirical novels and his urbane autobiographical studies of Edwardian and Georgian society.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tom on January 25, 2023

4.25⭐ The story deals with a phantom automobile and the ghost of a child which this reportedly beast of a car ran over. This car was driven by Guy Elphinstone, a car enthusiast. Elphinstone was a singularly nasty man and often spitefully drove over chickens and rabbits who got in his way as he flew a......more

Goodreads review by Liz on January 31, 2023

A rather verbose telling of a not unexpected unusual encounter. The newness of the automobile must have enhanced the creepiness at the time when this was written. Audible edition. This can be found in 'A Collection of Ghost Stories' by E. F. Benson, narrated by Greg Wagland.......more

Goodreads review by Johnson on October 12, 2024

Cozy little yarn about driving the then-brand-new monster that was an automobile.......more

Goodreads review by Jay on December 31, 2021

Benson pushed his ghost stories to be up to date: wireless, subways, buses. "The Dust-Cloud" is about the echo of a car accident.......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on November 18, 2022

One of the first, if not the first, horror stories about a killer automobile. Was it the driver or the car itself that thirsted for blood?......more