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Caterpillars

by Edward Frederic Benson

Narrator Mark Bowen

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Length 24 minutes

Language English

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About the author

Caterpillars is a short story by Edward Frederic Benson about a man haunted by dreams of enormous caterpillars.
In the beautiful Villa Cascana on the Italian Riviera, all is not as it seems. Why does the hostess leave a perfectly charming bedroom unoccupied? Why does Arthur Inglis present our hero with a caterpillar in a cardboard pill-box one lunchtime? And rather more bizarrely, why do luminous, bloated and gigantic versions of this creature haunt his dreams? Or could it possibly be that he is wide awake?

Fiction Fantasy Horror

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 and horror stories. In his own day it was his ghost stories which were his most popular works. Among the most significant works Edward Benson: And the dead Spoke..., The Outcast, Machon, Negotium Perambulans..., Inscrutable Decrees, The Gardener, Mr Tilly's Seance, Mrs Amworth, In the Tube, Roderick's Story, The Horror Horn, Mapp and Lucia series, Dodo series, The Inheritor, Secret Lives, Naboth's Vineyard, At the Farmhouse, The Wishing Well, The Terror by Night, The Thing in the Hall, The Cat, The Sanctuary and many more.