Basil Copper's guest appearances

Basil Copper

La Llamada De La Luna (LLDLL)

Nightshade Diary

Classic Ghost Stories

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fritz Leiber

Ray Bradbury

Shirley Jackson

Clark Ashton Smith

Erich Zann

Robert Louis Stevenson

Edith Wharton

Gerald Durrell

Ambrose Bierce

Mr Jones

Lord Dunsany

Edgar Allen Poe

Hume Nisbet

Cynthia Asquith

OwlTail

Temp VIDicen que todo lo que haces se vuelve siempre a ti… sea bien o sea el mal… aunque yo siempre he tenido mis dudas.También comentan que subirse al tren en la primera oportunidad que pase.Quien sabe lo que es mejor o peor, si todavía no ha pasado. Todo se suele ver más de cerca, con la distancia del tiempo transcurrido. Hace tiempo que no visitamos nuestra Biblioteca. A mi parecer, en ocasiones, es bueno pasarse por aquí para leer, aunque sean textos de casos que jamás ocurrieron, poder desconectar de los que en realidad sí lo hicieron.Entender que no todo ha de ser realidad, o no tiene por qué serlo, es un alivio, aun más cuando se narran historias como la que hoy os cuento.Hace tiempo que no os ofrezco un relato oscuro, de los que nos dejan pensando, de los que nos proporcionan inquietud, o simplemente, de los que creo a todos nos gusta. He cogido este libro, de un escritor inglés. Basil Copper.Nace en Londres en 1924 y nos dejó en 2013. Sus escritos van desde la Fantasía, al terror, desde la ficción a lo detectivesco.Su obra es muy extensa, pero hoy voy a narraros una, que el propio Alfred Hitchcock recomendó como uno de los textos más inquietantes del género de terror, por la atmósfera que crea, por la sensación de impotencia y miedo del protagonista. Ustedes decidís, si se merecerá lo que le ocurra.PUEDES VER ALGUNOS VIDEOS DE LLDLL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEOtdbbriLqUfBtjs_wtEHwSuscríbete al Canal Youtube y a Ivoox. GRATITUD ESPECIAL:Siempre a los MECENAS. Sin ustedes… nada sería posible.Desde México, Gracias JESSICA por tus excelentes portadas.Desde Asturias, ANA DE LA VEGA. Por llevar la responsabilidad de las redes sociales.Desde Madrid, LOLA VELASCO, por estar.Sigamos sumando en LLDLL, SUSCRIBETE en IVOOX y comparte. Y si deseas escuchar todos los programas en cerrados, sin anuncios… HAZTE MECENAS.GRACIAS. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Temp VI Dicen que todo lo que haces se vuelve siempre a ti… sea bien o sea el mal… aunque yo siempre he tenido mis dudas. También comentan que subirse al tren en la primera oportunidad que pase. Quien sabe lo que es mejor o peor, si todavía no ha pasado. Todo se suele ver más de cerca, con la distancia del tiempo transcurrido. Hace tiempo que no visitamos nuestra Biblioteca. A mi parecer, en ocasiones, es bueno pasarse por aquí para leer, aunque sean textos de casos que jamás ocurrieron, poder desconectar de los que en realidad sí lo hicieron. Entender que no todo ha de ser realidad, o no tiene por qué serlo, es un alivio, aun más cuando se narran historias como la que hoy os cuento. Hace tiempo que no os ofrezco un relato oscuro, de los que nos dejan pensando, de los que nos proporcionan inquietud, o simplemente, de los que creo a todos nos gusta. He cogido este libro, de un escritor inglés. Basil Copper. Nace en Londres en 1924 y nos dejó en 2013. Sus escritos van desde la Fantasía, al terror, desde la ficción a lo detectivesco. Su obra es muy extensa, pero hoy voy a narraros una, que el propio Alfred Hitchcock recomendó como uno de los textos más inquietantes del género de terror, por la atmósfera que crea, por la sensación de impotencia y miedo del protagonista. Ustedes decidís, si se merecerá lo que le ocurra. PUEDES VER ALGUNOS VIDEOS DE LLDLL: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEOtdbbriLqUfBtjs_wtEHw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEOtdbbriLqUfBtjs_wtEHw</a> Suscríbete al Canal Youtube y a Ivoox. GRATITUD ESPECIAL: Siempre a los MECENAS. Sin ustedes… nada sería posible. Desde México, Gracias JESSICA por tus excelentes portadas. Desde Asturias, ANA DE LA VEGA. Por llevar la responsabilidad de las redes sociales. Desde Madrid, LOLA VELASCO, por estar. Sigamos sumando en LLDLL, SUSCRIBETE en IVOOX y comparte. Y si deseas escuchar todos los programas en cerrados, sin anuncios… HAZTE MECENAS. GRACIAS. <a href="https://www.ivoox.com/147-lldll-la-camara-oscura-basil-copper-en-audios-mp3_rf_112118616_1.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Escucha el episodio completo</a> en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de <a href="https://www.ivoox.com/originals" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iVoox Originals</a>

147 (LLDLL) La Camara Oscura (Basil Copper) EN LA ESTANTERIA

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The Spider by Basil Copper@stuieburley on Twitter put me onto Basil Copper. He had recommended the Janissaries of Emilion. I'd never heard of Basil so I got a Kindle Edition of The Collected Macabre Tales of Basil Copper which includes that story. However, it is long. I may do it another time, but for this week I selected a shorter story. But it's a good one.Basil Copper was born in 1924 and lived until 2013 when he died aged 89! He was born in London, England.His first story was published in March 1938, the Magazine of the Tonbridge Senior Boys School. Tonbridge is in Kent, and when I was a boy we went on an exchange visit to Kent. Most schools in England went to foreign countries but the trip from Cumberland to Kent, England's most northwesterly county to England most southeasterly county, was enough of a culture shock for us.He is most famous for his stories featuring the character Solar Pons. This character was created by August Derleth, H P Lovecraft's protege, and is very much in the Lovecraftian tradition of authors sharing worlds and characters between their stories. Copper was published by the Arkham House publishing house, run by August Derleth. Many of Copper's stories feature the Cthulhu Mythos. Despite his links with the Cthulhu Mythos, Copper admitted that his influences were M R James and Edgar Allan Poe and he was interested in Gothic literature. The Spider is a phobia story. It's very cleverly written, neat and effective. In that it reminds me of Marghatina Laski's The Tower where the phobia is vertigo. Here it is arachnophobia. Turns out that the landlord of the wayside auberge just south of Paris has a skin for picking up on a visitor's fears and killing the visitor via heart attack by inducing the phobia. The insect horror theme is of course featured in Boomerang by Oscar Cook.This story appears in the 1964 Pan Book of Horror Stories. He was paid £10 for the story. Copper lived at Sevenoaks in Kent and founded the Tunbridge Wells Vintage Film Society. He was a movie buff and a member of several societies related to films. His wife was French and he is clearly familiar with the county in which The Spider is set. Apparently the story idea came from a spider that was in a room in a hotel he and his wife stayed in while on holiday in Paris. He met his wife and married in her in 1960 when she was in England learning English.His first novel was actually a detective storyCopper was very prolific and in addition to his weird tales and novels he wrote 58 detective novels set in LA. When he wrote the first novels, he had never visited the city and used maps and films to provide background. He worked as a journalist, running a county paper at the age of 17. He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War and took part in the D-Day landings. Music byhttps://bit.ly/somecomeback (The Heartwood Institute)The final tune is by Michael Romeo of https://bit.ly/dvoykinbandcamp (Dvoynik)Support the Podcast Any Way You Can!http://bit.ly/ghostiest (Buy the thirsty, hyperactive podcaster a cup of Java)Sign up For Exclusive Stuff and Early Bird Exposures on http://bit.ly/barcudpatreon (Patreon)Get the https://bit.ly/substacklanding (Substack Newsletter) with ExclusivesMy Ghost StoriesGet my free audiobook download, The Dalston Vampire https://bit.ly/dalstonvampire (here), and you may consider purchasing my https://bit.ly/HorrorStoriesForHalloween (Horror Stories For Halloween), which is now long past.Support the showVisit us here: www.ghostpod.orgBuy me a coffee if you're glad I do this: https://ko-fi.com/tonywalkerIf you really want to help me, become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barcudMusic by The Heartwood Institute: https://bit.ly/somecomeback

The Spider by Basil Copper@stuieburley on Twitter put me onto Basil Copper. He had recommended the Janissaries of Emilion. I'd never heard of Basil so I got a Kindle Edition of The Collected Macabre Tales of Basil Copper which includes that story. However, it is long. I may do it another time, but for this week I selected a shorter story. But it's a good one.Basil Copper was born in 1924 and lived until 2013 when he died aged 89! He was born in London, England.His first story was published in March 1938, the Magazine of the Tonbridge Senior Boys School. Tonbridge is in Kent, and when I was a boy we went on an exchange visit to Kent. Most schools in England went to foreign countries but the trip from Cumberland to Kent, England's most northwesterly county to England most southeasterly county, was enough of a culture shock for us.He is most famous for his stories featuring the character Solar Pons. This character was created by August Derleth, H P Lovecraft's protege, and is very much in the Lovecraftian tradition of authors sharing worlds and characters between their stories. Copper was published by the Arkham House publishing house, run by August Derleth. Many of Copper's stories feature the Cthulhu Mythos. Despite his links with the Cthulhu Mythos, Copper admitted that his influences were M R James and Edgar Allan Poe and he was interested in Gothic literature. The Spider is a phobia story. It's very cleverly written, neat and effective. In that it reminds me of Marghatina Laski's The Tower where the phobia is vertigo. Here it is arachnophobia. Turns out that the landlord of the wayside auberge just south of Paris has a skin for picking up on a visitor's fears and killing the visitor via heart attack by inducing the phobia. The insect horror theme is of course featured in Boomerang by Oscar Cook.This story appears in the 1964 Pan Book of Horror Stories. He was paid £10 for the story. Copper lived at Sevenoaks in Kent and founded the Tunbridge Wells Vintage Film Society. He was a movie buff and a member of several societies related to films. His wife was French and he is clearly familiar with the county in which The Spider is set. Apparently the story idea came from a spider that was in a room in a hotel he and his wife stayed in while on holiday in Paris. He met his wife and married in her in 1960 when she was in England learning English.His first novel was actually a detective storyCopper was very prolific and in addition to his weird tales and novels he wrote 58 detective novels set in LA. When he wrote the first novels, he had never visited the city and used maps and films to provide background. He worked as a journalist, running a county paper at the age of 17. He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War and took part in the D-Day landings. Music byhttps://<a href="http://bit.ly/somecomeback" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bit.ly/somecomeback</a> (The Heartwood Institute)The final tune is by Michael Romeo of <a href="https://bit.ly/dvoykinbandcamp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/dvoykinbandcamp</a> (Dvoynik)Support the Podcast Any Way You Can!<a href="http://bit.ly/ghostiest" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/ghostiest</a> (Buy the thirsty, hyperactive podcaster a cup of Java)Sign up For Exclusive Stuff and Early Bird Exposures on <a href="http://bit.ly/barcudpatreon" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/barcudpatreon</a> (Patreon)Get the <a href="https://bit.ly/substacklanding" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/substacklanding</a> (Substack Newsletter) with ExclusivesMy Ghost StoriesGet my free audiobook download, The Dalston Vampire <a href="https://bit.ly/dalstonvampire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/dalstonvampire</a> (here), and you may consider purchasing my <a href="https://bit.ly/HorrorStoriesForHalloween" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/HorrorStoriesForHalloween</a> (Horror Stories For Halloween), which is now long past.<a href="https://www.patreon.com/barcud" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a>Visit us here: <a href="http://www.ghostpod.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.ghostpod.org</a> Buy me a coffee if you're glad I do this: <a href="https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker</a> If you really want to help me, become a Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/barcud" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/barcud</a> Music by The Heartwood Institute: <a href="https://bit.ly/somecomeback" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/somecomeback</a>

S02E27 The Spider by Basil Copper