The Ghost Stories of E F Benson, read by Richard Crowest
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Creator: Richard Crowest
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An occasional series of readings of ghost stories by a writer now better known for his social satire. Introduced and read by Richard Crowest
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Episodes:
Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:45:00 GMT
Something has come in to the house. Come in out of the rain...
Fri, 25 May 2012 10:45:00 GMT
“Surely this is the strangest manner of song ever yet heard on the earth, this melody from the brain of the dead...”
Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:30:00 GMT
"I can't go back now. I wouldn't if I could; not a step would I retrace…"
Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:30:00 GMT
Recorded in front of an audience at E F Benson’s home, Lamb House in Rye.
Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:30:00 GMT
“One of the things invisible, of the dark powers, leaped into light, and I saw it with my eyes…”
Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:00:00 GMT
“I knew I was not alone in the room. There was something there, something silent as yet, and as yet invisible. But it was there.”
Wed, 29 May 2013 14:15:00 GMT
“I think that before I opened the pill-box I expected something of the sort which I found in it.”
Tue, 8 Oct 2013 11:40:00 GMT
“A dream hasn’t anything real about it, has it? It doesn’t mean anything?”
Wed, 30 Oct 2013 11:10:00 GMT
“The thing seemed scarcely human at all; it was a monster from which he had delivered himself...”
Mon, 23 Dec 2013 15:37:00 GMT
“In the paralysis of that fear I tried to scream, but not a sound could I utter.”
Fri, 1 Aug 2014 08:40:00 GMT
“Jack will show you your room. I have given you… the room in the tower…”
Sat, 31 Oct 2015 16:30:00 GMT
“A-pen-ara curses any who desecrates or meddles with her bones…”
Sat, 24 Dec 2016 23:25:00 GMT
“The only live thing that lurked here was that monstrous, mysterious creature of evil.”
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 01:00:00 GMT
“Find it and have it buried, and then I shall be free from its dreadful presence.”
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 22:00:00 GMT
“Soft as the fall of a single snow-flake, fear settled on his heart…”
Sun, 24 Dec 2017 20:15:00 GMT
“At that moment the memory of the séance the evening before, about which up till now I had somehow felt distrustful and suspicious, passed into the realm of sober fact…”
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 19:50:00 GMT
“An odd uneasiness came over me, for I had been so certain that the house was uninhabited.”
Tue, 2 Jul 2019 14:00:00 GMT
“Then the sense of nightmare began, for his two companions, gripping him tightly, pulled him along towards it, and he struggled with them knowing there was something terrible within.”
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:45:00 GMT
“In the shadows in the corner of my room there sits something more substantial than a shadow.”
How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery
Tue, 24 Dec 2019 16:50:00 GMT
“Every guest on his arrival in the house is told that the long gallery must not be entered after nightfall on any pretext whatever.”
Sun, 22 Mar 2020 19:00:00 GMT
“I tell you that vampirism is by no means extinct now. An outbreak of it certainly occurred in India a year or two ago.”
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 18:40:00 GMT
“I am sure that no phantom of the dead that die not could have evoked so unnerving a terror.”
Sat, 31 Oct 2020 14:50:00 GMT
“Then suddenly I saw something black move in the dimness in front of me, and against the grey foam rose up first the head, then the shoulders, and finally the whole figure of a woman…”
Thu, 24 Dec 2020 18:10:00 GMT
“I could not stir, I could not speak. I could only strain my ears for the inaudible and my eyes for the unseen, while the cold wind from the very valley of the shadow of death streamed over me.” (Note: this story features a suicide.)
Sun, 04 Apr 2021 15:05:00 GMT
“All was not well with the house: in some strange manner the shadow that had come between her closed eyes and the sun as she sat on the garden-bench had entered, and was establishing itself more firmly day by day.”
Sun, 20 Jun 2021 20:00:00 GMT
“At that moment I saw the face of Fear; my mouth went dry, and I heard my heart leaping and cracking in my throat.”
Sun, 31 Oct 2021 15:15:00 GMT
“Terror, that was slowly becoming a little more definite, terror of some dark and violent deed that was momently drawing nearer to me held me in its vice.”
Fri, 24 Dec 2021 17:50:00 GMT
“I went to sleep at once, and from dreamlessness awoke suddenly to a consciousness of terror and imminent peril.”
Fri, 24 Jun 2022 20:00:00 GMT
“With a sudden sinking of his heart, he heard behind him the step which he thought he had silenced for ever.”
Sun, 30 Oct 2022 16:00:00 GMT
“I woke again with the sense that there was something creeping up to the house, like the fog that was now thick outside my window, and seeking admittance.”
Ghost Stories read by Richard Crowest
Sat, 24 Dec 2022 19:15:00 GMT
“I'm delighted to announce a new series of ghost story readings from E F Benson and other authors. Search YouTube for Ghost Stories read by Richard Crowest.”