A newlywed couple on their honeymoon find themselves pursued across Europe by an elusive and sinister figure with a striking, and rather frightening, appearance...
A new, original recording of a classic public domain text, read and performed by Simon Stanhope for Bitesized Audio.
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Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920) was born in Denbigh, North Wales, the daughter of a clergyman. She was the niece of J. Sheridan Le Fanu, the celebrated Irish author of gothic and ghost stories, and he encouraged her early in her writing career, publishing some of her early works in his 'Dublin University Magazine', and introducing her to the influential London publisher Richard Bentley, for whom she went on to write 14 novels. Her early style gained her a reputation for sensationalism, which made her hugely popular with contemporary audiences, although after the turn of the 20th century her work began to fall into relative obscurity as literary fashions and tastes changed. During the course of her writing career she contributed several ghost stories to popular periodicals, of which the best remembered today is probably 'The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth' (1868), notable for its epistolary form.
'The Man with the Nose' was first published in the October 1872 edition of 'Temple Bar' magazine.
The title card shows a detail from 'L'Inhumation précipitée' ('The Premature Burial', 1854), by the Belgian artist Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865), depicting a cholera victim emerging from his coffin after being mistakenly buried alive. This is the painting described at the start of chapter II, when the narrator and his wife visit the Wiertz Museum in Brussels.
Recording © Bitesized Audio 2020.
21 июл 2020
