A Mirror of Shalott: Being a Collection of Tales Told at an Unprofessional Symposium
Jul 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Giuseppe De Nittis, Antonio Mancini and Telemaco Signorini. A dozen Catholic priests on holiday in Rome sit up after dinner and tell each other, as professionals, what they have actually met: a possession, a house that will not be blessed, a deathbed that went wrong. Benson was the Archbishop of Canterbury's son, and his conversion to Rome in 1903 was a public scandal; here he uses the priest's clinical tone to make the supernatural sound like case notes. Sixty plates of moonlit coasts, church interiors and ruined castles by painters including Knud Baade and Giacomo Favretto give these clerical tales the haunted, half-lit atmosphere they demand.
Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Giuseppe De Nittis, Antonio Mancini and Telemaco Signorini. A dozen Catholic priests on holiday in Rome sit up after dinner and tell each other, as professionals, what they have actually met: a possession, a house that will not be blessed, a de...
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Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914) was an English Roman Catholic priest and writer. He served in parishes in England and as a chamberlain to Pope Pius X. He is known for his novels and short stories, including the supernatural collection A Mirror of Shalott (1907).
Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914) was an English Roman Catholic priest and writer. He served in parishes in England and as a chamberlain to Pope Pius X. He is known for his novels and short stories, including the supernatural collection A Mirror of Shalott (1907).
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