Synopsis
An Englishman has dreams of a room in a tower, then visits a friend and finds himself staying in that room.
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Publications (99)
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | The Room in the Tower and Other Stories | Mills & Boon | Collection | 1 |
| January 1912 | The Pall Mall Magazine, January 1912 | George Routledge & Sons | MAGAZINE | 63 |
| 1914 | The Room in the Tower and Other Stories | Mills & Boon | Collection | |
| September 1914 | New Story Magazine, September 1914 | Street & Smith Publications, Inc. | MAGAZINE | 105 |
| 1929 | The Room in the Tower and Other Stories | Knopf (UK) | Collection | 9 |
| July 1931 | Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second Series | Gollancz | Anthology | 543 |
| July 1932 | Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second Series | Gollancz | Anthology | 543 |
| January 1937 | Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second Series | Gollancz | Anthology | 543 |
| June 1943 | Argosy, June 1943 | The Amalgamated Press | MAGAZINE | 37 |
| 1947 | Tales of the Undead: Vampires and Visitants | Thomas Y. Crowell | Anthology | 360 |
| 1947 | The Fireside Book of Ghost Stories | Bobbs-Merrill Company | Anthology | 37 |
| January 1948 | Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second Series | Gollancz | Anthology | 543 |
| February 1949 | Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second Series | Gollancz | Anthology | 543 |
| April 1967 | A Feast of Blood | Avon | Anthology | 149 |
| March 1968 | The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 42 |
| July 1969 | The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 42 |
| 1971 | The Undead | Neville Spearman | Anthology | 129 |
| 1971 | Ghosts! An Anthology of Spectral Stories | Blackie | Anthology | 363 |
| January 1971 | The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories | Berkley Medallion | Anthology | 42 |
| 1973 | The Undead | Pan Books | Anthology | 131 |
| September 1973 | The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 42 |
| 1974 | The Horror Horn and Other Stories: The Best Horror Stories of E. F. Benson | Panther | Collection | 11 |
| October 1974 | Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors | Souvenir Press | Anthology | 15 |
| December 1974 | The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 42 |
| 1976 | Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors | Mayflower | Anthology | 13 |
| June 1976 | The Undead | Pocket Books | Anthology | 129 |
| 1977 | The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories | Citadel Press | Anthology | 187 |
| May 1977 | The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 42 |
| March 1978 | The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories | Jove / HBJ | Anthology | 217 |
| August 1979 | The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories | Castle Books | Anthology | 187 |
| October 1984 | The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories | Penguin Books | Anthology | 322 |
| 1985 | The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories | Penguin Books | Anthology | 322 |
| November 1986 | The Tale of an Empty House and Other Ghost Stories | Black Swan | Collection | 109 |
| April 1987 | Vampires | Doubleday / SFBC | Anthology | 213 |
| May 1987 | The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories | Citadel Press | Anthology | 187 |
| July 1987 | Vampires | Doubleday | Anthology | 213 |
| October 1987 | The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories | Penguin Books | Anthology | 322 |
| October 1987 | Voices from the Vaults: Authentic Tales of Vampires and Ghosts | Key Porter Books | Anthology | 41 |
| October 1988 | The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories | Penguin Books | Anthology | 213 |
| October 1989 | The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories | Penguin Books | Anthology | 213 |
| 1991 | The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories | Bloomsbury | Anthology | |
| October 1991 | The Book of Dracula | Wings Books | Omnibus | 187 |
| 1992 | The Mammoth Book of Vampires | Robinson | Anthology | 342 |
| 1992 | The Mammoth Book of Vampires | Carroll & Graf | Anthology | 342 |
| July 1992 | The Mammoth Book of Vampires | Carroll & Graf | Anthology | 342 |
| July 1992 | The Mammoth Book of Vampires | Carroll & Graf | Anthology | 342 |
| November 1992 | The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson | Robinson | Collection | 1 |
| December 1992 | The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson | Carroll & Graf | Collection | 1 |
| March 1993 | To Sleep, Perchance to Dream ... Nightmare | Barnes & Noble Books | Anthology | 68 |
| August 1994 | The Giant Book of Vampires | Magpie Books | Anthology | |
| August 1994 | The Giant Book of Vampires | Parragon | Anthology | |
| September 1995 | Horror Stories | Kingfisher (US) | Anthology | 31 |
| September 1995 | Horror Stories | Kingfisher | Anthology | 31 |
| October 1995 | Horror Stories | Penguin Audio | Anthology | |
| 1996 | The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson | Carroll & Graf | Collection | 1 |
| October 1996 | Classic Vampire Stories: Timeless Tales to Sink Your Teeth Into | Lowell House | Anthology | 103 |
| November 1996 | The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson | Carroll & Graf | Collection | 1 |
| 1997 | Classic Vampire Stories: Timeless Tales to Sink Your Teeth Into | Barnes & Noble Books | Anthology | |
| August 1997 | The Book of Vampires | Barnes & Noble Books | Anthology | 342 |
| 1998 | Horror Stories | Kingfisher | Anthology | 31 |
| 1999 | Classic Scary Stories | Lowell House | Anthology | 475 |
| 1999 | The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson | Carroll & Graf | Collection | 1 |
| September 1999 | The Passenger | Ash-Tree Press | Collection | 3 |
| October 2001 | Vampires: Encounters with the Undead | Black Dog & Leventhal | Anthology | 305 |
| 2002 | Gothic Short Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Anthology | |
| June 2005 | Horror Stories | Kingfisher | Anthology | 31 |
| 2007 | Haunted | Barnes & Noble Books | Anthology | 100 |
| June 2007 | Haunted | Bardfield Press / Miles Kelly Publishing | Anthology | 100 |
| October 2007 | Gothic Short Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Anthology | 223 |
| November 2007 | The Dark Side: Truly Terrifying Tales | Kingfisher (US) | Anthology | 31 |
| September 2008 | Horror Story Collection 5 | LibriVox | Anthology | |6 |
| October 2009 | The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published | Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books | Anthology | 350 |
| June 2010 | The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard / SFBC | Anthology | 350 |
| August 2010 | Fangs: The Vampire Archives, Volume 2 | Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books | Anthology | 231 |
| February 2011 | Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 12 | LibriVox | Anthology | |10 |
| March 2011 | The Ghost Story Megapack: 25 Classic Tales by Masters | Wildside Press | Anthology | |
| September 2011 | Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts: 23 Classic Stories of the Supernatural | Signet Classics | Anthology | 7 |
| September 2011 | Vampires: The Original Stories—Back in Time to the First Darkness | Watkins Publishing | Anthology | |
| November 2011 | In the Shadow of Dracula: Classic Vampire Fiction 1816-1914 | IDW Publishing | Anthology | 367 |
| January 2012 | The Passenger | Ash-Tree Press | Collection | 3 |
| March 2012 | The Vampire Megapack: 27 Classic Tales | Wildside Press | Anthology | |24 |
| June 2012 | Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson | Wordsworth Editions | Collection | 3 |
| September 2012 | Collected Works of E. F. Benson | Benediction Classics | Omnibus | 467 |
| October 2012 | Haunted | Galaxy | Anthology | |100 |
| March 2013 | The E. F. Benson Megapack | Wildside Press | Collection | |
| May 2013 | In Praise of M.R. James | Oleander Press | Anthology | 23 |
| October 2014 | Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson | Oxford University Press | Anthology | 427 |
| January 2015 | Things That Go Bump in the Night: A Treasury of Classic Weird | Parallel Universe Publications | Anthology | 127 |
| April 2015 | The Room in the Tower | White Press | Chapbook | |
| October 2015 | The Rivals of Dracula | No Exit Press | Anthology | 40 |
| October 2016 | Ghost Stories | Vintage (UK) | Collection | 95 |
| October 2016 | Ghost Stories | Vintage Digital | Collection | |
| March 2018 | The Room in the Tower | Ulverscroft Large Print Books | Chapbook | |
| January 2019 | Haunted House Short Stories | Flame Tree Publishing | Anthology | |
| September 2019 | HorrorBabble's Ultimate Weird Tales Collection, Volume II | HorrorBabble | Anthology | |40 |
| 2020 | There Is a Graveyard That Dwells in Man | Strange Attractor Press | Anthology | 165 |
| December 2023 | The Room in the Tower and Other Stories | Project Gutenberg | Collection | |1 |
| January 2024 | The Room in the Tower and Other Stories | Faded Page | Collection | 1 |
| January 2024 | Creepy Tales of the 1910s | Glowbug Publishing | Anthology | 29 |