First published as "Crimes of Old London - The Scoured Silk" in 1918, this tale by Marjorie Bowen tells of a bride-to-be who becomes disturbed by the fate of her intended's first wife. If you enjoy these stories, do LIKE, COMMENT, SUBSCRIBE as they say it helps the channel grow...
What do I say, Jasper L'Estrange? Again, you have delivered a remarkable performance. I fervently hope that very soon you have the million subscribers that you so earnestly deserve. I am excited and eager to forget this story so I can have an excuse to listen to it again. You are truly an awesome narrator. 👌 😱👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Your performance was excellent as always, but this story has got to be the best you've ever had on the channel. Please give us more from this author sir.
Brilliant narration of a great story - fabulous mood creation - Jasper is the very best story teller in my humble opinion. Kudos to Jasper. Thoroughly recommended.
A thoroughly Victorian drama. Thanks Jasper. It's great to to have your precise, and perspicacious productions back again. I will thank Tony Walker for reminding us of you by mentioning your channel a few weeks ago. As always *love your work *.
This was excellent. Thank you! I don't want to spoil this for anyone, but it does remind me of a true story in France that took place around this time involving a young woman by the name of Blanche Monnier.
Excited to find a L'Estrange production first thing in the morning and so glad I could listen instead of read. I thought the story was about sour milk.
Japer, I'm so glad you're back.😊 I love everything you do with one exception: Fellow Traveler haunts me. So many times I could have been in that trunk. Too many times I could have been in that truck, in either seat, or the waitress, for that matter. I spotted that set up right away, having seen it worked in real life. I hate to admit it now I'm old and respectable (not really), but only physical weakness, lack of ambition for power and lack of greed saved me from prison or a coffin. People ask why I'm not afraid to be working with a renegade mustang who's been abused. I tell them he's not even in the top 20 contenders for scary. I plan to ride him like the pony express. I'm a 73 yr old woman until my ass hits leather, then I'm a 18 yr old boy! Giddy up! Your writing makes me wonder what kind of a life you've lived. Never have I seen myself in literally every character in a story. You write women perfectly, no condescension, no paternalism, no control disguised as care except from the male characters. How do you even see how it is for us!? The majority of women still can't spot that last one. Rage on sister!
Fantastic take on Jane Eyre. It’s satisfying to see blame laid on whom it belongs in the adapted Mr. Rochford antagonistic character. Even with a misogynistic undercurrent, (at least as one unfairly judges the past through a modern lens) This exceeded expectations beyond what one would expect from a 19th century version. Phenomenal selection and reading, as always Jasper!
Thanks Jasper, think I read this many 🎑 moon's ago. I have a new story coming out on Saturday. "The most dangerous boy in the world meets our brothers and sisters".
Fantastic story! Oh, this is a fantastic tale! I keep listening to the next one popping up in my feed. I like the Captain in the story and how he has words with the husband-to-be. Your narrations are so wonderful. Thanks!
What a perfectly delicious horror tale! A gothic, scary story which through Jasper L'Strange's wonderfully evocative narration painted & made alive this awful Set of wicked deeds performed by a monsterous man! So very enjoyable! Both offered by the author & narrator A first rate tale indeed! Peace 🇬🇧👧
Never heard that one, it was just grand. Thanks Jasper. Your innovations in sound effects are a great addition to the atmosphere too. Nice and Spooky but not overbearing. I like the pregnant pauses you add as well, they bridge the gap from mere reading to real storytelling and acting
I've been promoting your channel in the comments section of any other relevant channels I can find, this channel deserves the recognition and when I get paid I'll be looking to join as a member.
I grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere. I had school friends, but I was often lonely and bored on weekends and summer holidays. My great solace was a weekly trip to the library. I brought home every collection of horror stories i could find. More years later than I care to recall, I found you and a few others reading these stories, and it's a wonderful reminder of that time. Thank you for sharing your talent.
I think the nostalgia buzz for those horror and ghost anthologies seems to hit all of us who reached certain milestone ages in the past decade. I certainly remember all of that so fondly.
Thanks Jasper. Really appreciated. Will NOT mention my own stuff on the channel now. Unless asked. Just comment...bits of poems etc etc.🎉😢😂. As lots of people have said....YOUR CHANNEL IS BACK!!! Really glad and appreciative.
Excellent. It has been a deep pleasure listening to this story. Your voice allows me to sink into the drama and experience the horror myself. Thank you so much!
Oh the joy you bring!!! My heart races with glee whenever I see you’ve uploaded a new video! 😄 That was a deliciously grim tale! Thank you so much!!! 👻
Oh Jasper I absolutely adored this story - though adore is possibly an ill chosen verb. It was interesting, engaging and I think what I liked best was the surprise that it turned out not to be supernatural at all but an old fashioned crime story! Really exquisitely read as usual, thank you so much!🖤🐦⬛
You're welcome. Yes, I liked that aspect of it also. Sometimes when I read the story for the channel I've already read it a few times and I start to worry it's too obvious, but I think the author was clever to hint at a few different explanations so the story does have a genuine element of surprise.
So excited to see that you have added some new stories. Kind of a hold out on technology, I really only discovered narrated stories a couple years ago, but out of all the channels I've liked, you are one of the most talented, entertaining narrators out there. It's truly a performance. Love it!!😊❤🦄
I'm only twenty minutes in, but feel the need to stop and say that you are truly my favourite narrator. You bring such wonderful creeping menace into these stories! I'm a member of a writing group, and very occasionally have a go at recording my homework. It's definitely an art if not a talent (and one I don't possess!), and I appreciate the tremendous time and effort that must go into these recordings ❤ 🎯 EDIT: Another incredible story by yet another incredible author, thank you 😊
Thank you kindly. I'm glad you enjoy my readings. It's interesting that you write and record your own work. Do you find it helps? It's a help and a hindrance to me. A hindrance because I know I'm writing these to be spoken aloud so I probably fuss a bit too much on the first draft, but a help because hearing it out loud does give the clearest indication if it's flowing. What kinds of things do you like to write?
@@EnCryptedHorror I find it definitely a help to record and listen to the story I've written from 'outside of my head'. Some things flow, some things don't - what seemed so great when I wrote it isn't so great after all. Bits that jar, bits that are cringey or unnecessary. I think getting used to hearing your own recorded voice is the most crucial part in doing this. I find listening to someone else's recording of my story a great way to learn if it works or not, but it's excruciating if it doesn't! I've also recently discovered that if I talk aloud to myself in the role of one of my characters I can iron out any knots in their particular story far more easily than on paper. I also do this for poetry. Just set my phone on record, sit on the kitchen worktop with a fag, and talk. I'm a big fan of the Victorian era as settings for my writing, and love the creepy and the odd - Kafka is one of my favourites. At the moment I'm creeping round the edges of writing a Victorian crime book which I fear will never come to fruition. At the moment it's a log basket full of notes... Like you, I also have a few other projects tucked away. Sad isn't it? Do you sometimes flick through them and see potential in developing them further, but lack the nerve/confidence to do so? Self doubt is the nemesis of the writer, for sure. I have three recordings - one done by me, the other two by someone else - that I actually like, which is a HUGE deal as I'm a very, very harsh self-critic, which is maybe part of my problem ❤
That was a good one and no mistake. I was lulled into the cozy atmosphere of a good old fashioned ghost story, only to be confronted at the end by something that Edgar Allan Poe would probably have decided was just a bit too much. But a good one all the same.
I am not the grammar police, but it is so nice to hear well-written, well spoken stories. I get so fed up with terrible pronunciation and idiotic plots. Sometimes i will be interested in a story, but I can't listen to the whole thing, because the narrator or writer is butchering the language. Thank you Jasper.❤❤❤
I agree wholeheartedly. I have to stop myself being a petty pedant more often than is probably healthy. I can't listen to AI productions at all, and a bumbling narrator puts me right off.
Yarp. Plot will be great but either the pronunciation is horrible or the voice isn't something I can listen to for an extended period of time. Or it's a chat bot!!! That was a disappointing discovery especially when the particular channel had narrations of stories that can't be found elsewhere yet I couldn't get through them to the end. A.I. indeed 😂😂
I totally agree with what people are saying about stories read by bots - absolute torture trying to listen, made even worse if you can tell it’s a good story. As for some of the self-styled narrators, so many are downright appalling. I don’t expect RSC standards by any means but there is skill involved in reading aloud just to an acceptable level. No shame if one doesn’t have that skill but I wish they wouldn’t inflict it on the rest of us. Jasper’s reading is delectable and as good or better than many a professional actor!
Thank you Morticia. Pronunciation is something I do fret about when I come to do the narrations. It's amazing how many words I encounter (reading the older stories particularly) that I've only ever seen written down and have no idea how to pronounce. And then there are the words I double check and realise I must have been saying them wrong my whole life 😆
I've got nothing but two (paraphrased) quotes: "If you have a good spouse you'll be happy, if you have a bad one you'll be a philosopher". "A woman doesn't know what happiness is until she's married. By then it's too late..."
Good onya Mr. E'lStrange. Your narrations to such grandly obscure stories have kept a longhaul trucker not only up but enthrauled for thousands of miles, now. Sorry for the mispronounciation... jg's a wee tiddly.
Ah, breaker breaker, @Jonathan GsReturn, you're the second longhaul trucker to let me know they listen to EnCrypted. I wonder if there are any others out there? Glad you enjoy the stories.
