E. F. Benson

“The Room in the Tower” is a short story by E. F. Benson, published in January 1912 in Pall Mall Magazine. It recounts the disturbing experience of a man haunted for years by a recurring dream: a visit to a mysterious house, a silent reception by an unknown family, and the relentless announcement that he has been assigned a room in an old tower. However, one day, what had until then been only a dream vision begins to manifest itself in his real life with increasingly disconcerting precision.