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Ghost Stories read by Richard Crowest

“I woke again with the sense that there was something creeping up to the house, like the fog that was now thick outside my window, and seeking admittance.”

James Lamp

“With a sudden sinking of his heart, he heard behind him the step which he thought he had silenced for ever.”

The Step

“I went to sleep at once, and from dreamlessness awoke suddenly to a consciousness of terror and imminent peril.”

The Flint Knife

“Terror, that was slowly becoming a little more definite, terror of some dark and violent deed that was momently drawing nearer to me held me in its vice.”

Outside the Door

“At that moment I saw the face of Fear; my mouth went dry, and I heard my heart leaping and cracking in my throat.”

The House with the Brick-Kiln

“All was not well with the house: in some strange manner the shadow that had come between her closed eyes and the sun as she sat on the garden-bench had entered, and was establishing itself more firmly day by day.”

The Shuttered Room

“I could not stir, I could not speak. I could only strain my ears for the inaudible and my eyes for the unseen, while the cold wind from the very valley of the shadow of death streamed over me.” (Note: this story features a suicide.)

In the Tube

“Then suddenly I saw something black move in the dimness in front of me, and against the grey foam rose up first the head, then the shoulders, and finally the whole figure of a woman…”

Gavon’s Eve

“I am sure that no phantom of the dead that die not could have evoked so unnerving a terror.”

The Temple

An occasional series of readings of ghost stories by a writer now better known for his social satire. Introduced and read by Richard Crowest

“I tell you that vampirism is by no means extinct now. An outbreak of it certainly occurred in India a year or two ago.”

Mrs. Amworth

“Every guest on his arrival in the house is told that the long gallery must not be entered after nightfall on any pretext whatever.”

How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery

“In the shadows in the corner of my room there sits something more substantial than a shadow.”

The Thing in the Hall

“Then the sense of nightmare began, for his two companions, gripping him tightly, pulled him along towards it, and he struggled with them knowing there was something terrible within.”

The Sanctuary

“An odd uneasiness came over me, for I had been so certain that the house was uninhabited.”

A Tale of an Empty House

“At that moment the memory of the séance the evening before, about which up till now I had somehow felt distrustful and suspicious, passed into the realm of sober fact…”

Machaon

“Soft as the fall of a single snow-flake, fear settled on his heart…”

The Dance

“Find it and have it buried, and then I shall be free from its dreadful presence.”

Spinach

“The only live thing that lurked here was that monstrous, mysterious creature of evil.”

“And No Bird Sings”

The Bus Conductor

I wish Richard would produce on a more regular basis, but as such am grateful for the work to date.

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