The Premonition by Lewis Darley 

Thrilled that people are enjoying my story! Thanks again Tony for reading it and for speaking to me

Bad winter weather moving in. Thanks Tony for a nice long listen tonight with cats and teapot.

She tried, bless her heart.

Ohio here, English major, graduated from the University of Iowa in 1972 so you can well imagine how much I enjoy Tony's narration and selection of stories. This was excellent, recalling my days in college, walking the dark streets and visiting the bars with my friends -- only without the premonition! Kudos, Lewis! Tony, there have been jokes about how your reading puts us to sleep, but you have to know what a gift you have, and give to your listeners. I have weird chronic illnesses that sometimes prohibit my enjoyment of television or even reading, yet I can close my eyes to the sound of your wonderful voice. You are engaging enough to keep me from ruminating, yet when I'm tired, there is nothing that can compare to your soothing voice. I belong to a FaceBook group for chronic illness, and when a poster wrote of trouble relaxing, I of course suggested Tony Walker Classic Ghost Stories Podcast! Please take care, and keep reading for many years to come. God bless you!

Great Story ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perfect Narration ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐❤ Wonderful Interview With The Author ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Good luck to Lewis on his project! I personally lack the patience to listen to the "explanations" this world uses to deny our spiritual reality---but I know plenty of people still think that way.

I so enjoy your narration. Rare talent to “read” with more acting capabilities than most film. Thank you.

I really enjoyed this story. The interweaving of potential realities with the idea that there is only one eventuality was elegantly presented. This was such a gentle telling of a harsh reality. I felt like the reader/listener was guided so gently along this story, shepherded towards the inevitable ending. I'm looking forward to more from this author.

Brilliant story

Enjoyed that very much and I'm looking forward to reading some more of Lewis's writing on his website.

This one made me cry 😢

Wow - that was an amazing story. Wonderful to hear your chat with the author. Thank you both so much! I really enjoyed the video.

A very different story but bloody brilliant. Thank you for this fantastic piece of work

I wish you could fathom how excited I get when you put out a new story. Especially the longer ones. I have listened to Night Time Sleep Radio over and over and over because no one puts me to sleep like you Tony. You have ruined me for everyone else. Thanks A lot!!!

Really liked this one. It's sort of a classic theme of fate and destiny (and if the choices we make matter) but I think it was done well. Thank you for sharing it with us, Mr. Darley.

Very good story. Lewis is very talented. Thanks Tony

Oh yes sir. Its well recieved.I enjoy longer stories because Im stuck in bed Ill so its nice to lose myself for a few hours! Keep it up and thank you.😊

Freezing Fog here in Carlisle!! I have the Influenza after pneumonia and thus Gratefully Appreciated this 🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟 Narration, great Stuff indeed!!❤

Hi, dear Tony! Yours is the audial offering I most anticipate. Thank you for your excellent work .❤

For such a modern story, it still has a gothic feel about it. Really well written and narrated. 🙏

❤️💯💋 to both of you!

Thanks for the interview and conversation and reading.

Holy Guacamole! This was amazing! Bravo Lewis for a brilliantly written story. Kudos to Tony for recognizing the great paring of his narration with this tale. My stomach is still in knots! Poor, poor, Tom and Sarah!

It irritated me that her therapist and mother decided to convince her that her last interaction with her father wasn't real. I'm not sure therapists regularly do that but it was just sad. It's pretty common for people to have a visit when a loved one dies.

Lovely story.well read.Thank you tony.

In the end, if she hadn't interfered, he wouldn't have been standing where he was. He would have taken his second bus and have been gone. That's the trouble when you try to make something not happen. You don't know if your actions will help cause the undesirable outcome.

I can't thank you both enough for this lovely story and interview. I'm a life-long fan immediately.

Poor Tom😔

Excellent match. Great story & great narration - thank you both.... It's a very cold winter night in rural Sth East Victoria Australia & I can't sleep so this is a wonderful gift.

Very inspiring work there. Very well written story. 👌

Thank you sir 😊❤

Magnificent story. Thank you so much.❤

This is one of my favorites!! I was connecting with Sarah from the beginning.

The narration was amazing as usual. The story was perfectly written in line with Victorian ghost stories. Good job both!

Gripping, vivid , masterful story and narration. Love the visual discussion after the story. Much appreciated! Thank you and warmest wishes to you both!

So glad you mentioned The Signal-Man, which brought up the horror/fate point. Such a great discussion!

How fun to hear and see Tony and Lewis ... Love all the insights on Nottingham... I teach Psychic Development in Orlando FL so The Premonition had special draw for me.. i will definitely listen again. I've had thousands of psychic and spiritual experiences over the years, and evidential mediumship is probably my favorite gift to share. The idea of a premonition, meaning to warn ahead of time, does bring up a discussion of whether some things are just fated and cannot be avoided, or if the premonition itself is a sign that there's still time to dodge the bullet, so to speak.. which Lewis dealt with in his main character Sarah. Really enjoyed the point of view and the descriptions through Sarah's eyes. Wouldn't that make a great title for a book from her perspective, Lewis? Through Sarah's Eyes. I can see her sequel coming up, can't you? 😅❤ Again, thanks so much for this "visit"! Brilliant story, brilliant narration and timing.

Well done, both the story and the narration!

I loved that story, Lewis! And I loved finally being able to put a face to a name, Tony. I lreally enjoy your choice of stories and your narrating... as well as your musings/ramblings at the end.

This was one of my favorite stories! Thank you!

Excellent, well done Lewis for this story. I am looking into his art now. thanks Tony for showing the interview Toni

Loved the story and the telling of the story (of course :). ❤ A real treat! Thanks very much!

Bloody good yarn and well read sir

Excellent story, really enjoyed it. Initial prefiguring with the scaffolding but then the story whisks you onward .. brilliant.

Thank you, an excellent read

Solid story! Funny how the author didn't see his own connection to Dickens and the inevitability of future events. Great narration as always. Very cool addition with the interview!!!

Oooh... That was a good one! Simply thrilling!

Finally! Sure have been missing your readings!!!!🎉

Omg!…a cliffhanging end.I am devastated…I wanted closure for Sarah,I needed to Andrea to declare she was right….

I enjoyed this story. Early on I was expecting it to turn out that Sarah herself was dead.

Well I absolutely LOVED this tale! Beautifully read as asual😊. And fascinating interview! I lived in Nottingham for many years, and now half an hour away in Grantham, so thrilled to hear all about the author. Nottingham is a fantastic, edgy atmospheric place, as too is Sherwood Forest..the most magical of places. I shall be looking out for future updates on this exciting project!

Please read more of Lewis’s stories and for highlighting a young writers work

Snow for Connecticut 😂🎉😂🎉😂

Really interesting and entertaining. Thank you both.

How incredibly sad. And amazing. Thank you as always Tony!

I really enjoyed that story very good Thank you

Great story! There was a similar student housing building where I went to Uni. Ancient, sways horribly in the wind, always in disrepair and has a terrible sense of dread around it so this really resonated with me!! Thanks for the tale and wonderful narration! Look forward to the animation!

This was a really good story, and very enjoyable narration, thanks both of you!

So great!!

Very cool story! I was surprised when it first revealed the modern setting.

Loved the story, thank you!

Fantastic story tonight. Thank you very much for your wonderful narration🙏🏻

Brilliant story! Wonderful narration. Fascinating interview. Thank you, both, Tony and Lewis. The story itself brought up memories of premonitions in my life and the lives of my mother, aunt, sisters, nieces. Gave me wonderful chills.

Well, that was certainly chilling!

I enjoyed this, thank you!

An excellent story and excellent narration.

Great story!

It's so rare for a modern story to be well written. This was truly a treat. Thanks to Mr. Darley and to you as well Tony! I'd love to hear more collabs between the two of you in the future. And as always I'm a fan of long format.

THANK YOU MR. TONY FOR MAKING LISTENING TO YOU READ MORE INTERESTING THAN WATCHING TELEVISION'S NONSENSE *** I'VE TRULY ENJOYED LISTENING TO YOUR NARRATIONS OF THESE OLD STYLE STORIES MAKING THEM SEEM TO COME TO LIFE IN MY IMAGINATION *** MUCH LOVE AND RESPECT MY FRIEND ❣️❣️❣️

That comment about the classic warning to not go into the cellar reminded me of a time (back in the 1980s), that my sister and I were watching a slasher film on TV. The nice neighbor was heading for the cellar. My sister and I shouted, No! Don't go in the basement! Our brother was passing by. He poked his head in the room and conversationally said, Yes, go into the basement. Don't take a flashlight [electric torch if you're British].

Boss 🙌🏻🩷

Thank you for the great story Lewis and the most excellent reading Tony! Sarah probably caused the young man’s death. If he had gone on with his team mates, he wouldn’t have had part of the building fall on him.

Great story… loved it…!❤️

I have not read "Harry" by Rosemary Timperly, but I looked it up and I see you did a podcast on that in 2021. Thanks.

A morality tale about the importance of shed scaffolding at ground level in a commercial construction zone. As a trained scaffold erector, Tom's accident could been avoided. Not by the second site, but from sound construction practices. The number one way to die on a construction site is to fall to your death. The number two way is to have something fall on you. I was on a job waiting for the exterior hoist, and a mason laborer stepped outside the building and was hit by a falling sheet of plywood from above. It shattered his forearm. He was lucky. If the material had struck his head, it would have been lights out. On the same job, a plumber's apprentice was diligently standing below his journeyman's scissor lift waiting for instructions. The journeyman carelessly kept his tools on the floor of the lift, and accidently kicked a wrench off the open end of the lift. It struck the apprentice square on his head. Lots of blood from a head wound. The initial call for a bandage resulted in the procurement of an oily rag from the pipe threader. This was luckily rejected with disdain. As it was summer, a good man donated his tee shirt, which may have been a bit sweaty, but at least it was nor soaked in cutting oil. The shirt was wrapped around the unfortunate apprentice's head like a turbin. I could go on about various other catastrophes, but I will leave it there. Overhead protection saves lives.

That was a great story. The reading was also great✨

I hope you are doing well Tony Walker and all is good in your part of the world. It's been a few days (which is like 8 years in my head) without a story from you. I got the stickers right around Christmas Eve, I love them, thank you.

great narration keep it up !!!

Before this story, all that "Bristol" brough to my mind was "ship shape and Bristol fashion" and Diana Wynne Jones.

Sweet 😋 cheers

I’d like to launch one of our discord book chats from this story! I’ll make the suggestion there. Great story, and I love the author interview.

That was a ghastly vision.

Bloody excellent British horror Too bad we going extinct

I would think that someone feeling suicidal, but squeamish, would try cleaning that haunted model galleon, but I guess not.

Extremely well written. This is why contemporary fiction isn’t for me, though. That is, trauma and emotional realism at the forefront with the uncanny primary used as a means to communicate it.

Final destination'🕯 more things change, more they will stay, - what will' may.. 💀

TL;DR: Both author and narrator have fascinated me to effusion. My bad for the essay. 🤷🏽‍♀️ *** This is only my second listening experience for the channel and I can’t say enough how elated I was to get not only Tony’s end reflections but also an interview with the author and to find out about Lewis’s (coming and other) work. Huge compliment to Darley (whose name will be easier to remember now that you’ve made the famous Dalí association in my porous brain) that I expected him to be way older from his storytelling, although there is also a freshness to the content that makes sense, too. Please don’t rush the animation. I - at least - will gladly find it once released no matter how far in the future. Much respect for your inspiring goal-setting for learning animation skills associated with your passions! I’m afraid of spoilers for anyone reading this before listening, so *Spoilers* The horror these two discuss at the end - of knowing but being powerless to change what you know - made me almost angry at Lewis when he started the interview!! “He killed Tom!” 😂😂 I realized I had spent the last part of the story saying, “NO!!! No no no no,” in my mind. “Not the gRaVy!” 😅😅😅 What this means for me is that Tom’s character - and really all three main characters - had enough depth by the end to have become “people.” Does that make sense? In such a short time, Lewis provided enough detail that I had begun to care about each of them, including the roomie who might in other tales have been a superficial afterthought. I like her obsessive cleaning. 🥲 Tom might have been just a cute jock in someone else’s story but instead he had immediate personality and just enough inner life to draw me in. In the narrations about his thoughts, I can see through his eyes, the swirling confusion of what sense to make of the ghost story about …himself. And then his moment of reckoning that ends with never actually seeing him again in the story…. It’s like I can hear the quiet dread begin from that point, imperceptibly at first, but becoming louder and more insistent as I fight it back, denying this soundtrack’s existence despite it eventually becoming deafening. Unavoidable and undeniable. 😩 Bear with me. I just woke up and finished the story so I’m still half asleep. I loved the looming dorm, too. It reminded me of coming “home” in college to my own high rise dorm late one weekend night. As my friends and I approached the front doors, a salt shaker fell from a high window and crashed to the concrete near us. We gained a new respect for gravity at the same time that we were PISSED at the person responsible for the incident, whom we didn’t find. So yeah, umm, I have a feeling both of you will have some of my money in the future. 😊🎉

X-files, mulder asks clyde' if everything is already prewritten. & it cant be changed' what's the piont in doing' anything? And clyde says, "now" ur getting the picture..

Also, Sarah was a bit of a Cassandra too

Pity Sarah didn't heed the song about keeping one's moggy in.

So sad...😢

Did she kill him, if he had gone to football, he would not have been under the scaffolding, did her fear kill him?

Which university in Bristol is Sara attending? I know the bar and bearpit are real because I looked them up to enter in the "important places" section for this story's entry at LibraryThing.

This one hasn't really been done. room 13 by robert swindells

Mr. Darley graduated just before the Covid-19 pandemic? Ouch.

She made it happen in the end because if she haven’t been there he would have got his bus home 😢

I find myself getting mad when I read stories like this. Not mad at the author, but mad as a father at the fictional parents of the character for not recognizing Sarah's super natural powers earlier.

Faulkner's 1st published short story is a doozy. In the style of American gothic, it's called "A Rose For Emily". en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rose_for_Emily