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100	1		_aBenson, Robert Hugh, _d1871-1914
245	1	2	_aA mirror of Shalott
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-04-28
505	0		_aPrologue -- Monsignor Maxwell's tale -- Father Meuron's tale -- Father Brent's tale -- The Father Rector's tale -- Father Girdlestone's tale -- Father Bianchi's tale -- Father Jenks' tale -- Father Martin's tale -- Mr. Bosanquet's tale -- Father Macclesfield's tale -- Father Stein's tale -- Mr. Percival's tale -- My own tale.
508			_aTim Lindell, Terry Jeffress, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520			_aA Mirror of Shalott by Robert Hugh Benson is a collection of supernatural tales written in the early 20th century. Framed as an informal symposium in Rome, a circle of Catholic clergy and a lay narrator exchange first‑person accounts of miracles, hauntings, exorcisms, and other uncanny experiences, constantly weighing skepticism against faith; recurring voices include Monsignor Maxwell, Father Meuron, Father Brent, and the Father Rector. The opening of the collection gathers seven priests and a layman around a Roman fireside, where Monsignor Maxwell argues for intellectual caution about the supernatural before the group agrees to tell one story each night. Monsignor’s first tale follows a devout layman who offers himself to bear his brother’s loss of faith, descends into harrowing spiritual darkness marked by an oppressive, almost tangible presence, and dies after a grim struggle, while the brother’s crisis passes and the widow embraces religious life. Father Meuron then recounts an exorcism on a Caribbean island in which the possessed woman violently reacts to holy water and, at the climactic command, food on the table visibly corrupts—after which she is freed. Father Brent tells of a Cornish estuary where an unseen surge drenches the sea-wall and a sleepwalking boy “sees” three blazing‑prowed ships glide past in the night. Next, the Father Rector relates how a notorious artist returns to the sacraments and, as evil influence lifts, abruptly loses taste, talent, and even youth, surviving for a time with faith alone. Finally, Father Girdlestone begins his account of a young Welsh priest dreaming of a moorland basilica when he is seized by an interior certainty that a non‑human presence is watching him from beyond a rock. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: Benziger Brothers, 1907
653			_aChristian life -- Fiction
653			_aStorytelling -- Fiction
653			_aParanormal fiction
653			_aShort stories, English
653			_aCatholic Church -- Clergy -- Fiction
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/mirrorofshalottb00bens/page/n5/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78565
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