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'Benighted'

Walter de la Mare

First published July 1936
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

The narrator is out walking with a woman with whom he has an unfulfilled (and never to be fulfilled) romantic relationship; they go astray in the dark and sit down to rest in a graveyard, where they read epitaphs and reflect.

First published in Pall Mall Magazine, July-December 1906.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 1936 Ding Dong Bell Faber and Faber Collection 49
November 1996 Cover Short Stories 1895-1926 Giles de la Mare Publishers Collection 179
July 2012 Cover Short Stories 1895-1926 Giles de la Mare Publishers Collection