Some traps are sprung with violence. This one closes one small, reasonable step at a time.

A grieving young man attends a séance out of simple curiosity. Then attends another, telling himself it’s scepticism this time. Robert Hugh Benson — a Catholic priest, and the son of an Archbishop of Canterbury — wrote The Necromancers to warn people away from exactly this, and never once lets a character simply say so. He builds the warning entirely out of how reasonable every single step looks from the inside.

Full introduction, two critical essays, and an author biography — with House Writer’s closing thoughts on a warning that arrived years too early for the readers who would come to need it most — now live as a StoriesTyped Annotated Edition on Kindle. Read the introduction, watch the opening pages typed out on YouTube, or go straight to the book.

— G. H. Schreiber

19/07/2026