The Creeping Man | A Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle | A Bitesized Audio Production
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Sherlock Holmes enters the realm of gothic horror and science fiction, in one of his last cases before retirement. A late entry in the original canon, the story veers into territory more associated with H. G. Wells or Robert Louis Stevenson than Conan Doyle, as Holmes investigates the strange behaviour of a famous scientist - and his dog.
A new, original recording of a classic public domain text, read and performed by Simon Stanhope for Bitesized Audio.
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From his first appearance in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887, in 'A Study in Scarlet', Sherlock Holmes established himself as the first, the best and the most famous of all private detectives. His serialised adventures in The Strand Magazine, starting with 'A Scandal in Bohemia' in 1891, developed the character into a literary sensation and in the 20th century he was to become the most portrayed character in screen history.
The Adventure of the Creeping Man was the 51st Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle. It first appeared in The Strand Magazine in March 1923, with illustrations by Howard K. Elcock, and was subsequently printed in book form as part of the last short story collection 'The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes', published in 1927. The story's text is one of the minority of Case-Book stories which is in the public domain - many of the stories, written after 1924, remain in copyright in some territories into the 2020s.
Recording © Bitesized Audio 2019.
I really enjoyed another Sherlock Holmes story. A person who reads, watches or listens to Sherlock Holmes cannot help but become more patient in listening, clever in deducing situations and information and overall a keener person.
I was unaware of this unusual Holmes story. A very unpredictable and well done plot!
You can see now the world we lived in before Viagra. Though not explicitly stated, one doesn't have to stray too far from the subtlety of the text, to gather an aging man with a beautiful and youthful romantic interest would want some "vitality" in more than one department. I've also a dirty mind, i suppose. GREAT LISTEN!
Thanks Adam... interesting insights!
Yes, but Viagra actually works & doesn’t damage a man’s mind, fortunately.
No. Its about virility clearly. Literally "monkey glands".
A whiff of Rue Morgue (Poe), and Jekyll and Hyde (Stevenson)...excellent. You had me totally engaged from the first moments!
This story might seem preposterous but it's deeply chilling at heart. Like many other writers and observers of his time Doyle often remarked upon the sense of the primitive luring behind civilisation, and evinced a fear of degeneration, regression back into the purely animal - the flipside of evolution of course. The possibility of human degeneration was a very common theme in literature at the turn of the twentieth century.
I find ACD particularly easy to listen to, many thanks 👍☺️
Listening to your narration is my favorite way to revisit this story. After exposure to other non-Holmes stories by ACD you've done I now can see hints of his venturing into the occult and bizarre with this story. It has enriched my enjoyment.
Most enjoyable Simon 💜🙏
Great stuff! This is keeping me sane during these anxious times! Thank you.
Glad to help! Thanks for listening
Magnificent. No frills, solid storytelling and a rarely anthologised cracker of a tale, one of my favourites, Simon. Many thanks from an Autumnal Saturday afternoon putting away the washing.
Love Sherlock Holmes! Liked and subscribed! You have the best British accent ever! Love you!
Marvellous Simon as always. I so love and appreciate your magnificent storytelling, narrative and accents which set the scenes as if one was travelling along with Holmes and Watson in their adventures to solve extraordinary mysteries and sculduggerous crimes. Thank you. Xxxx
I meant 'lurking' in my previous comment but come to think of it 'luring' actually gives a more interesting twist to the idea, so I left it in! Anyway thanks once again for a terrific rendition.
You're very welcome! Thanks for your thoughtful comments Jade
You've really brought this book to life !!!
I'm extremely happy to enjoy these ❤️😊 fantastic classics read so imaginatively 👍📖🗣️🎩💎
Thank you so much for your lovely comment
A Sherlock story I've never heard of be told by the best reader ever!!!
Very kind of you to say so Montie, thank you!
Excellent... Thank you!
Super.Enjoyed.Thanks.
Doyle was certainly having a bad day when he wrote this one. But the reading was excellent.
I'm addicted to your voice ❤
interestingly, i just found out that around the time of this story, there was a doctor in Austria or Germany who had a theory, there being a large interest in prolonging life, that if you took part of a gorilla testical and grafted it into a human one,( that life would be lengthened. it is not known if it were ever tried, but certainly it would have been rejected by the body like a bacteria would.
Superb narration
I do looooove your voice, its perfect for reading. I do hope you get to do loads more, I will enjoy them all over the winter months Gx
Thanks for the lovely comment - yes, rest assured more stories are on the way. Hoping to upload the next at the weekend....
@@BitesizedAudio always a pleasure ..have you considered a few witchy books ..the Sea Priestess is fiction by Dion Fortune ..its not a big book ..it is perfect for your voice beung written 1930s i think and in male narrative..plus you would make lots of witches very happy 😉😍 ..just a thought 🙏
I'm not familiar with that - I shall look it up! Thanks for the suggestion
I love this story!! Thank you 😊
Wonderful, glad to know that. Thanks for listening!
Really damn brilliant😃 very original! 🦋 m Illinois
Makes me think of our increasing crop of billionaires, at least two or three of whom are looking into the secrets of eternal life, not to mention taking our inhumanity to other planets whilst despoiling our own...
Very true! Thanks Susan
Bravo.
Thank you!
Oh no! 'Tis beauty killed the beast
*Said I* style...I like it & *said he*... I'm repeating myself me thinks
Never read this SH story, & I can see why it would not be a favorite. The reading is excellent, the story just stops at the most interesting time. Perhaps this is what Stephen King means when he remarks that he likes to take the reader to the edge, but then allows him to look over the edge. Felt like an unfinished story.
*Spoiler Alert* do not read this comment until after listening though it is a weird story & only my opinion, all I'll say is: shades of Jekyll & Hyde & experimenting w/illicit drugs
you are a perfect Holmes. Keep safe :) 🐒🌷
He grows more sinister 30 : 25
Он становится все более мрачным
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Okay so what is shag tobacco? Is it a cut style, or is it the last dregs dust of lower quality buy? Please! 😎 Anyone? Its been making me nuts for years. 🤷 m Illinois USA
It is (or was) very, very strong tobacco, smoked in a pipe. Vile stuff! And unhealthy, even by the standards of a society that took smoking by men for granted.
Surely not the *HOXTON CREEPER,* Holmes...?
Ah yes, the Pearl of Death. Rathbone and Bruce on top form...
You are an excellent reader ! Please can you tell me your name???? Thank you!
@Jan Norris Thank you! I did reply to your query on another story, perhaps you didn't get the notification. My name is Simon Stanhope (it's usually in the description below the videos, and there are links to my website etc on the About page of the channel if you're interested!). I appreciate your kind comments, thanks so much for listening
🤣🤣 early shadows of M rna Conan Doyle was prescient
please do more Saki 🙏
2 : 04..." i was a whetstone for his mind "...?what does it mean...dear Simon would you mind to explain if convinient- if inconvinient explain all the same.
Hello Natalya. Yes, a whetstone is a sharpening stone, for sharpening knives. So it's a metaphor, Holmes used conversation with Watson like a whetstone, to "sharpen" his mind, to spark ideas and enhance his thinking / brain power. I hope that makes sense....?
Gotcha...thanks...you're a whetstone for my mind dear Simon.
@@BitesizedAudio Dear Simon, would you mind to continue our quiry-answer.Do you know anything about many English accents.As for me I do not hear any accent when you are reading.What does it mean? But...
PS I do deffinetely make the difference when I'm listening an American " voice".
Ah, accents in English are quite difficult to describe, I'm not sure how a non-English speaker would hear them. Actually in this story I don't think I used any accents so it's not a good example. You may like to try listening to my recording of 'The Club footed Grocer', which is set in northern England but also features characters with London accents plus also some sailors with south-western English accents.... I'd be interested to know if you're able to hear those accents?
@@BitesizedAudio Thank you dear Simon.Okay.So much is clear to me.
Beautifully executed as always but the least interesting and most predictable SH story I've ever heard, sadly. I prefer the more rare ghostly classics it's true and no criticism of the reader.
Thanks Bob, appreciate your comments. Yes, I think the later Sherlock Holmes stories (those written in the 1920s), with a very few rare exceptions such as Thor Bridge, are far inferior to those from his heyday in the 1890s. I think this particular one has some points of interest in the context of the time it was written - the contemporary fad for rejuvenation, and fears around rapid scientific progress, but certainly agree it's not ACD's best work! Thanks for listening - more ghostly and other tales in the pipeline....
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Old school bath salts. Not that unbelievable.
She was a perfect girl in mind and body.🤔 What about him?!🙄 😜
A really stilted narration.