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The Ghost Stories of E F Benson, read by Richard Crowest

by Richard Crowest

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    “At that moment I saw the face of Fear; my mouth went dry, and I heard my heart leaping and cracking in my throat.”

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    “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.”

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    “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.)

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    “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…”

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    June 20, 2020 · 40 min

    “I am sure that no phantom of the dead that die not could have evoked so unnerving a terror.”

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    March 22, 2020 · 37 min

    “I tell you that vampirism is by no means extinct now. An outbreak of it certainly occurred in India a year or two ago.”

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    “Every guest on his arrival in the house is told that the long gallery must not be entered after nightfall on any pretext whatever.”

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About the show

An occasional series of readings of ghost stories by a writer now better known for his social satire. Introduced and read by Richard Crowest