The Leather Funnel - A Tale of Unease by Arthur Conan Doyle 

I agree. Some readers are so bad they cannot be tolerated. A great shame because there are some good books being attempted. As far as I know there are no recordings of George Orwell's voice but the guy who reads Homage to Catalonia sounds just right to my ears.

yes I like the spooky ones. ta angela

cheers Mity

Bit dark, ain't it?

Very creepy.

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio So, waterboarding has been around for quite some time. Though the first recorded use of it by the US goes back to the supression of the Philippine independence war in 1900.

Many were not the occult keep an open mind!!!

what's so terrible about the occult?

Yes. It's a tad unsettling. Maybe he got out of bed on the wrong side when he came up with that one.

We aim to please.

thanks - i thought it would be - i am now turning it off. 17:50

Surely you are aware that many writers in high renown have mental disturbance in their histories, Doyle included. But then perhaps that allows them to write such hideous descriptions. Also given the times of which they write, practices against villains as they saw them were pretty horrific. Remember Lady Bathory? As a young child she witnessed her father cut open the horse of a poor man who had practiced petty theft, and then he sewed the man into the horse, alive. Reading these stories you are destined to be exposed to tedious cruelties.

Granny 13AD Lopo

Anthony Demitre Ha ha!

Umm, it's gruesome...

There's nothing new under the sun, they say.

I did.

It's not all that pleasant, I agree.

Prurient. - great word! Interesting stuff, Dan.

Seems like YOU are the only one inclined to think that way, Dan.

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio prurient is a great choice word to describe Dans, slightly obsessive thought patterns.