The Gardener by E F Benson

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Hugh and Margaret Grainger rent a lovely old house near a golf course. At the bottom of the garden is a mysterious, well-kept thatched cottage that appears unoccupied. However, a visitor senses a strange presence within and occasionally sees lights or figures inside. Margaret, fascinated with communicating via planchette, starts receiving odd messages from an entity calling himself "the gardener." He announces a desire to enter the main house, catapulting the Graingers into disturbing events. The empty cottage is not so empty after all, and the gardener's unseen presence brings terror to the once-idyllic home. Through the planchette, Margaret has unlocked a portal between worlds, allowing a malevolent spirit access into the realm of the living. Now the Graingers must confront the implications of meddling with forces beyond their understanding. I was sent the anthology The Dead of Winter https://profilebooks.com/work/the-dead-of-winter/ By profile books. The Gardener by E F Benson is one of ten classic winter ghost stories in that anthology edited by Cecily Gayford. Thanks to Profile Books for the copy they sent me. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:11.6	The Gardener by E.F. Benson. Two friends of mine, Hugh Granger and his wife, had taken for a month of Christmas holiday the house in which we were to witness such strange manifestations.
1:23.6	And when I received an invitation from them to spend a fortnight there, I returned them
1:28.9	an enthusiastic affirmative.
1:32.0	Well already did I know that pleasant heathery countryside, and most intimate was my
1:38.1	acquaintance with the subtle hazards of its most charming golf links.
1:42.4	Golf, I was given to understand, was to occupy the solid
1:46.4	day for Hugh and me so that Margaret should never be obliged to set her hand to the implements
1:51.8	with which the game so detestable to her was conducted. I arrived there while yet the daylight
1:58.9	lingered, and as my hosts were out, I took a ramble round
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