The Ghost Stories of E F Benson, read by Richard Crowest
An occasional series of readings of ghost stories by a writer now better known for his social satire. Introduced and read by Richard Crowest
Episodes
December 24, 2022 • 10 secs
“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.”
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October 30, 2022 • 33 mins
“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.”
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June 24, 2022 • 34 mins
“With a sudden sinking of his heart, he heard behind him the step which he thought he had silenced for ever.”
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December 24, 2021 • 28 mins
“I went to sleep at once, and from dreamlessness awoke suddenly to a consciousness of terror and imminent peril.”
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October 31, 2021 • 19 mins
“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.”
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June 20, 2021 • 28 mins
“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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April 4, 2021 • 32 mins
“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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December 24, 2020 • 35 mins
“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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October 31, 2020 • 27 mins
“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 • 39 mins
“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 • 36 mins
“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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December 24, 2019 • 37 mins
“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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October 31, 2019 • 29 mins
“In the shadows in the corner of my room there sits something more substantial than a shadow.”
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July 2, 2019 • 49 mins
“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.”
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October 31, 2018 • 29 mins
“An odd uneasiness came over me, for I had been so certain that the house was uninhabited.”
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December 24, 2017 • 36 mins
“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…”
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October 31, 2017 • 31 mins
“Soft as the fall of a single snow-flake, fear settled on his heart…”
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October 31, 2017 • 39 mins
“Find it and have it buried, and then I shall be free from its dreadful presence.”
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December 24, 2016 • 32 mins
“The only live thing that lurked here was that monstrous, mysterious creature of evil.”
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