Your channel is my favorite of all the channels I subscribe to. I'm going back and having a second listen of all the stories you've read so far, as I wait for another new one.
Oh THANK YOU! It's one of my all-time favorite short stories! How I enjoy listening to you and your choices of visuals and music are always sublime. Love from the USA.
I'm listening to these stories today at my daughter's house while I wait for the power to be restored at my home following a hurricane. Thank you so much for this great resource. 🙂
I was so pleased to see you back, with a new story. I love “August Heat” and you read it beautifully as usual. Harvey’s stories have a subtlety which sends a shiver down the spine.
Thanks Bob, good to be back. Glad you enjoyed it. Another (very) short one coming up soon, then back to the slightly longer pieces in the coming weeks - I still have lots on my list! Thanks as ever
So great to have you back. Hope you had a restful time and thank you for introducing me to yet another short story I didn't know. Yes, most apposite and the added bonus of being slightly(if only) disturbing (or maybe that's just me?). Always nice to see it's still possible to shiver in August (and in the middle of a heatwave hereabouts). Kudos for the choice, the voice, the rendering. Many Thanks.
Thanks HerrCrankzy, appreciate your comments as ever. Yes, the heatwave in our part of the UK at least seems to have gone away for now, but it was very hot when I recorded this. Even hotter in the recording studio than outside. A little uncomfortable but apposite...
Instead of looking for short stories I did a RU-vid search for Simon Stanhope. Woohoo ‼️ such choice 😍. I'll just let it roll from one story to the next...😄💗
@@BitesizedAudio The narrator's habit of breaking up sentences with unnecessary pauses is becoming very irritating after listening to a few stories. The style of delivery should suit the story, not impede it. This static, hesitant style is being applied to all of your stories; perhaps a few different narrators could be employed for different stories. Very robotic, I must say.
Oh subtle! (Spoiler alert) The sort of uncertainty that lingers longer in one's memory than stories where the ending is clear-cut. I had not come across this one before, so it was a new pleasure. Thank you, Simon.
Gosh just seen this🤔I have rung the bell for a few channels so I can see new videos..yet I only see this now 2days after🤔Ah..well cuppa in hand and going to listen..thank you🌸🌸
Thanks Stella. Yes, it seems that the notifications can be a bit hit and miss sometimes, not really sure how it works... I've published another very short one since this (The Open Window) in case you didn't get that one either! Appreciate your support, hope you enjoy
Oh, I like that...not the fated doom but that it's a ghost story in reverse, written by the dead man whose sudden demise over a rickety table presumably sent the account out of the window to damn the stonemason (innocent or not) and find its way to publication, a kind of early "found footage" effect. I listened to 'The Shadow of a Shade' last, just yesterday, and had to laugh at the ghost presumably insisting, unheard to everyone else, that the perpetrator spell everything out just in case there was any remaining mystery...this is a refreshing amount of trust to place in readers, without being obscure for the sake of it. Thank you for reading this.
This is the second time I'm coming across this little shorty! so from the absolute last sentence, what are we supposed to conjecture here? ...that Atkinson is going to go mad from the heat and kill the author with his sharpened chisel before midnight?
Your reading is a credit to you, and a gift to the author! whose wonderfully macabre tales deserve to be heard as intended , read in his same authentic British accent. I would love to hear you read WF Harveys famous ,The Beast with the Five Fingers. I watched the film and it terrified me as a young child ...the idea of a murderous evil hand on the loose was appalling to me then, I am sure your reading of the original story could give me the creeps again... listening to you is always an experience, an immersive joy.
Thank you Fiona for your very kind words. I don't know the film, but I have read the story (some time ago) and it's already on my to-do list! I shall endeavour to record it at some point in the coming months... Thanks for the suggestion.
@@BitesizedAudio Ooooh lovely! I look forward to that so. You really should look up the film, its an old black.& white gem starring Peter Lorre as an astrologer & secretary to a wealthy invalid who dies and whose hand then gets up to mischief trying to make sure his will is carried out. it scared me silly as a child but I loved it! 😘😘
Oddly, our Lit. 101, 'or '10-something' was introduced to this in College--the 'truly multi=Phd'd Prof. analyzed it with a rather succinct Existential ending-read that what was about to happen is the 'dear Artist' so 'adrift in his thoughts' was a clear literary device to inform the reader that he had 'lost touch' with Reality and that it was he, who was to go 'Mad', and the 'Innocent' of this Tale like a Henry James, 'Innocent' would be the subject of the 'Turn of the Screw', whilst in the Docket...
Wait a minute ! Did Mister Harvey pass away on August the 20th before he finished writing this story ? 🐾🌏❤️❄️☃️ Can't wait for winter !! Many thanks !!
Thank you Sarah, appreciate your kind feedback. Yes indeed, I have that story on my list already, although it's one of a few I'd like to do which are of uncertain copyright status in the US (despite being public domain in the UK). I need to do some more research about it but will certainly bear it in mind. Thanks for the suggestion!
Hi, I really enjoy your audiobooks and this one was no exception. Could you please read The Clock which was also written by W F Harvey. It’s one of my favourite supernatural tales and, at only a few pages long, perfect for a Short Mystery and Suspense Audiobook. Many thanks.
@ourmanf1int Thanks for the suggestion, actually a couple of people have requested it previously and I have put it on my list - although I seem to recall it's told by a female narrator (if I remember correctly?) so had put it on the back burner as not suitable for my voice. But it's been a while since I read it so I may be mistaken. I'll take another look when I get a moment. Appreciate your kind feedback, thank you!
@@BitesizedAudio you're absolutely right; it is a female voice. I would still like to hear you telling the tale though. You're a natural storyteller. Failing that how about Smee by A M Burrage? Another classic. 😉
I remember how this story made me shiver the first time I read it. Your excellent reading made me shiver again! I like to imagine how the rest of the story played out (beyond the obvious).
