Speaking of horror stories, I'm currently packing up everything my son and I own as we are moving 844 miles West next week. Listening to spooky stories while engaging in this chore is both fitting and quite enjoyable. Thank you!
I wouldn't have been have riveted reading these stories on my own. The Masterful Storytelling held me in a grip of anxious and fearful expectation. Thank you!
Thank you for putting me on to E F Benson it took a while for the penny to drop that a lot of the best ones are old Effie. Love the ramblings at the end as much as the stories, too, as wonderful as compilations like this are! It's a delightful to have both:)
I think many people encounter several EF Benson tales without making the connection because his 'spook stories' are so diverse: ghost stories, weird tales, vampire tales, psychic tales, even outright humour. His eagerness to stray from the 'antiquarian' ghost story is both his strength and perhaps the reason he's less revered than MR James.
Until listening to this collection, I hadn't realized how many stories written by E. F. Benson I had read over the years. This was a delightful find to listen to while doing chores.
You have a incredible, enchanting voice. I love listening to these old stories, because it seems that reading and. Books aren't as popular. I'm a bit addicted to listening to you.
Thanks for the black screen. I’ve been sick for a week and haven’t been able to sleep for as many nights. If this occurs again tonight I’ll listen to this story again.
I love me some E.F. Benson. I'm going to save this for bedtime tonight. I notice this includes "The Outcast" which I am unfamiliar with, even though I've been on a Benson binge the last two days. Much appreciated, Mr. Walker, and good timing, since I had no idea what I should listen to tonight. Now I have that covered. It's been taking a couple hours to fall asleep lately (anxiety) and this video will see me through the long process. I live under the poverty line, but a small donation is better than nothing. I hope it doesn't come off as insulting, but I have to buy cat food too, and I just bought 84 pounds of cat litter, so I'm low on funds this month. Best wishes to you and your channel!
E F Benson “Spook” stories are definitely among the best in the genre - and he wrote so many! The E F Benson Society has so much information about this fascinating man, his family and the society of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
\|/ Nine hells! I must say, this chanced upon discovery is a nice lil' fortunate happenstance... I suppose that it would have once been a thing that struck me as seeming odd, the fact that I'd never yet before even encountered a hint of this channel's existence. Especially considering exactly how avid a dèvouğụar of just such type of literary content as is this... A pleasingly effortless hobby and one which I have so readily been drawn toward ever since I'd the luck of expanding my allocation of leisure time into being, all the time there is... and thus, these past many years I have often spent several hours of an evening in restful repose and, eyes closed, lay there hungrily consuming such soothing narratives and painting the scenes being detailed by narrators such as yourself in my minds eye. This has obviously been done to differing results, each varying by degrees according to their creators particular perchance for narration and the vastly differing qualities of tonal resonances each of them have displayed. Thus, my find of this fresh source of seemingly quality content, and it being provided by an impressively nuanced narrator like yourself is an extremely satisfactory happening... and it's looking to be like it may be turning into the most promising of this year's new channel candidates! As, I found your skill and quality of tone as it has sounded, here, in these few tales... to just be one of the best out of the recent finds in terms of it's overall quality and its cadences' pacing. This channel's content, alongside the apparent high quality of your narration work, is the most promising find that I have made in this regard for, oh, quite a good many years, now. I dig it, a lot... and so, I would like to thank you for the efforts you've clearly given to the making of such quality storytelling. Know, that IF there are still natural born bards to be found in this day and age, then you my friend just may indeed qualify as being such! The very best of luck to ya, my man... I feel you have what it takes to provide some excellent content & grow your subscriber base. ❤😊
🇬🇧 With reference to the 2nd story & the family called Peverrall or Peverill or Peverrell... Ive not come across the name before, not in life nor literature I say it because my Grandfather was a Peverrall ! It was his middle name but was his mothers maiden name. He often linked that name with his paternal surname so it was a double barrel one. He did this because his Army Regiment had a Private who had my Grandfathers surname & so as not to confuse or cause any mix up, my Grandfather added his middle name of Peverrall. My Grandmother used to tease him, saying he was acting like a snob just because he was Captain He didnt like a Private having the same surname! Haha Poor Grandpa, he'd go all grumpy But i suspect my Grandmother was nearer the truth! In those days, rank & standing were more important than they are now! Thank you so much for this collection of Fred ( EF) Bensons Wonderful tales. Ive read 95% of them now, plus his brother & sisters stories But its a thrill to find one id not known about. ( " Spinach " being a new discovery) Benson is one of the very few authors & whos stories i never get tired of hearing. MR James is another. Have you ever read any of Eric Brahmas tales of blind super sleuth Max Carridoc ? His stories are excellent. Well, Peace to All 🇬🇧👧
No, I don't know Eric Brahmas's work. Thank you for the suggestion. I will look into it. I can't remember how it was spelled in the story now, but it is a name I've heard before. Is it a place-name originally -- i.e. your ancestors came from that place in the distant past?
@@ClassicGhost Im not that sure, my Grandfather was brought up on a family estate in rural North Northumbria & because they kept horses, by the time he was just a young chap he was an expert horseman. Hence his regiment being the Northumberland Hussars. I think my great grandmother was called Catherine Zanthe Peverrell or Peverrall. They may have lived in Alnmouth or Alnwick but its hazy to me now All i remember is being brought up at my Grandparents house with my parents too, inside High Gosforth Park, near the Racecourse. Then they moved to Brandling Park, Jesmond. Ive promised myself an Ancestry Kit, but firstly i want to do my Birth surname, paternal wise. Then after that i shall start on my mother's side & the Peverrall name. Its jolly fascinating stuff, i do know on my fathers side we owned lands in Elgin in Scotland but that was a very long time ago I was given good advice from a Genealogist years ago who said Stick to one surname on one side, Paternal or maternal Its too tempting if you research willy nilly into ones past & before you know it, you're bogged down with histories & names & people & you get into a real Tizz. So i intend to stick with my given Surname & go back as far as i can & my Ancestry Do Dah will help alot Then after that i'll go down my Mother's history! Thanks for the reply & your splendid narrations Peace 🇬🇧👧
Many years ago, I remember reading, "Negotium Perambulans." I forgot the story featured a particular ancient carved panel and not an ancient triptych. The story still gives me the shivers. Thank you, Tony.
I love you reading all the ghost stories. Because your voice does not get in the way of the story. A good horror story could be. People who go in cryo chambers before they are actually dead .so what if your brain was active in there .and you experience a nightmare that lasted forever. Because you had no muscle activity to bring you out of the night. If you were born in a space ship you would panic before you were put in suspended animation .because you would fear dreaming the same endless dream.
I am highly curious if Benson used themes from H. P. Lovecraft in his story, Negotium Perambulans, much as Lovecraft mentions various authors in his works. Bits of Pickman's Model, the Deep Ones, Cthulhu, and Shoggoth can be seen here and there in the story. I would definitely add this story as a part of the ever-expanding Lovecraft Mythos. The next story, The Room in the Tower lends emphasis to poets and dreamers. I believe I would consider this story, as well, a part of the Mythos.
Rather the other way around. 'Negotium Perambulans' first appeared in Hutchinson’s Magazine in 1922, while 'Pickman’s Model' was written in 1926. Lovecraft’s essay 'Supernatural Horror in Literature' mentions it specifically, so I think we can consider it a significant influence.
Thank you so much Tony! Too bloomin hot to sleep so this is exactly what I needed! Thank you so much algorithm’s! Over subscribing causes me to miss a lot of things but I always am lucky enough to catch your genius! How fear departed the long gallery is one of the best short stories of any genre I have ever read/heard! Especially when read by you! We should never take for granted the pleasure of being read to! One of my favourite things in life! Brightest of blessings “Angel of entertainment!”🫶🎭
0:27 How Fear Departed The Long Gallery 36:16 The Outcast 1:16:50 The House With The Brick Kiln 1:44:16 Between The Lights 2:10:20 Negotium Perambulans 2:48:53 The Room In The Tower.
Thank you so much 😊 you are a v kind soul! Love it when someone takes the time to do this! U have good karma now so do the lottery just incase!🙏🫶✨ 💫💜✨🔮✨💜💫
@@mariameere5807 Thank you! I started listening then fell asleep, so thought I'd listen again and make a note of the times. Too right, I need a big win! 😃
How Fear Departed is such an awesome and funny, tragic, yet redemptive story. I love the Outcast as well. The one about the motorcar, is that him? Oh Brick Kiln is wonderful, too.
@@ClassicGhost No, it’s called the Dust Cloud. By EFB. [I think I read it in a library book or something someone lent me. I remember the funeral bus one you mentioned]
@@inisipisTV Yes, it wasn’t what I was originally thinking about, however. It was one about a To The Manor Born, who had run someone over, and was killed at his own manor entrance after the gates were open. It’s much better than the EF Benson iteration, though somewhat similar; can’t recall who wrote it.