The Temple


 Another story to mark Halloween 2021. This is my reading of E F Benson's short story, "The Temple" in which holidaymakers end up regretting their choice of accommodation. It reminds me a little of a holiday cottage I once stayed in.

The obsession of earlier centuries with shattering standing stones in order to use them for building projects - much like the soulless Puritans who destroyed large swathes of the Avebury circle - has resulted in quite a few buildings have chunks of defiled temples worked into them. I've not heard off any of the inhabitants of such places having the experiences of Benson's characters, but who knows?




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