Fright no.11: An alchemist believes he has the power to create life in The Blue Beetle by A G Gray.

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  • Опубликовано: 9 янв 2025

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  • @scoutrifle6827
    @scoutrifle6827 Год назад +7

    Thanks!

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +3

      How very kind of you, Scout Rifle. Thank you very much!
      The British Library publish a series of books called Tales of The Weird, and for Christmas I bought myself a 6 month subscription. I shall use your donation to buy some of the kindle books missing from my collection.
      I also have a BuyMeACoffee page www.buymeacoffee.com/missworm where you can see how I spend the donations, or you can choose which books to buy. Donations start at £1. (The fees are much lower, too!)
      Once again, many thanks, and thank you for choosing to spend your time with me. Happy New Year 🎇

  • @scoutrifle6827
    @scoutrifle6827 Год назад +10

    You really do have a gift; the voice, the talent. Thanks for sharing it.

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +2

      What a very sweet thing to say, Scout Rifle, thank you.
      I do hope you had a nice Christmas, and that 2024 is kind to you 💫

    • @camcordernonsense5264
      @camcordernonsense5264 Год назад +3

      i agree. have you a local radio station you could entertain on? that would be an awesome nightcap treat. our st. louis radio used to have radio dramas and story tellers. not anymore. its so planned out and ...snooze....snor.....sorry.

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +1

      Hmm, 🤔Midnight with Miss Worm….it has a certain ring to it. Or perhaps not a ring, but a knell…

  • @RedcoatsReturn
    @RedcoatsReturn Год назад +3

    Thanks

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +1

      Thank you very much, dear friend 💕. That has taken me very close to my £60 payment threshold. I may actually receive some money soon! Keep watching those adverts - those 0.006 of a penny all add up 😂. Much appreciated.

  • @coloradopackratprepper
    @coloradopackratprepper Год назад +5

    Oh yay a bedtime story!!!!! Lovely!!!!

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +2

      Wotcha, CPP. Happy New Year 🥂💥. I hope you didn’t hear any tick-tick-ticking!
      Thank you for all your lovely comments in 2023. They really do encourage me and make it all worthwhile. 💜

    • @coloradopackratprepper
      @coloradopackratprepper Год назад +4

      ​​​​​​​​​​​@@misswormI listened again with coffee this morning.😢 That infernal ticking continues.🐾🪲🐾 Can't locate exact position. A flash of blue here and there, mutating, I think. Concern grows over the turquoise scarab in my room.🤪🤪🥴🥴😵‍💫😵‍💫🤢🤢☠️☠️ Eeeekkkk!!!! aaaaawwwwkkkk!!!!! 🌚🌚🪰🪰 Happy New Year!!!!! 🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎈🎈🎈❤❤❤💙💙💙😻⌨️⌨️

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +1

      Have you watched Practical Magic? It makes me think of Sandra Bullock pulling up the floorboards.
      You’ll have to change your name to ColoradoScarabPrepper!

  • @simonward-horner7605
    @simonward-horner7605 Год назад +4

    Oh, good, almost Frankenstinian. A lovely reading, Miss Worm. Happy 2024 to all, living or ghostly, at Corkscrew Cottage.

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +1

      🥂Happy new year to you & yours, Simon🥂 Thank you for all your encouragement in 2023 - may the new year bring you much success and happiness 💫

    • @simonward-horner7605
      @simonward-horner7605 Год назад

      Thank'ee! Is The Monkey's Paw forthcoming? @@missworm

    • @simonward-horner7605
      @simonward-horner7605 Год назад +1

      Thanks to you for all the chills and all your other considerations throughout the year! Forging ahead into a spooky 2024!@@missworm

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +1

      I’ve had to postpone The Monkey’s Paw. I was about to upload it and one of the bigger ghost channels pipped me to it by posting a reading of it by Christopher Lee.
      One of the problems with being a tiddly channel ☹️.
      I don’t know how they get round copyright issues, but they put loads of recent stuff up. Good luck to them, but it’s hard to compete when they put up a dozen recordings a week read by the greats.

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +1

      Cheers, my lovely 🍾

  • @vickiebrannon5217
    @vickiebrannon5217 Год назад +4

    I enjoyed the story. Thank you so much!

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +1

      Happy New Year, Vickie 🥂. Thank you for spending some of your holiday with me - I hope you had a good Christmas 🎄.

  • @janpenland3686
    @janpenland3686 Год назад +5

    This one kept me on the edge of my seat. I will never look at my collection of turquoise scarabs the same. At least they aren't sapphires! 🤣🤣🤣 Thank You and Much Love ❤

    • @northerngirlhobbies
      @northerngirlhobbies Год назад +3

      I won’t look at my collection of insects again the same again either Miss Penland. 🫣

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +2

      If you ever get fed up with your collection of scarabs, feel free to post them over here 😉. Happy New Year, Jan. 💫May 2024 bring you much happiness 💫 Thank you for supporting my channel in 2023 with all your kind comments - it’s much appreciated.

    • @janpenland3686
      @janpenland3686 Год назад

      @@missworm If I ever decide to get rid of them I have you # 1 on the list. Happy New Year my dear Miss Worm. May you have an abundance of good fortune in all your ventures. Much Love ❤

  • @marymiles9922
    @marymiles9922 Год назад +5

    Oh what a tale! Listening late on a winter night, no fear of beetles crawling around...for now.
    Thank you Miss Worm! Happy New Year! 🎊 🪲

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +2

      Happy New Year, Mary 💥🥂. Keep an eye out in springtime for those blue ones!
      Thank you for spending time with me in 2023 - it really is appreciated.

  • @itallia666
    @itallia666 Год назад +6

    How Splendid!
    As i listened to this story from
    A G Gray, i thought he must be a Victorian writer
    ( he was.. or at least this story was published mid 1800s)
    The Victorian writers had a certain style, I so admire & cant help a laugh when male writers of that era seem to describe their wives or females of their acquaintance as;
    Little..
    everything about the description has the female as
    .....
    The little woman, her little nose,
    Little white hand, little feet, sweet little laugh, her little Boots, her sweet little shell like ears.
    Id wager it was to make themselves appear more virile
    Strong & protective!
    They couldnt do that with a
    Big Bonnie Lass with a derriere like the backend of a Drey Horse
    😆
    Anyway! Marvellous story
    Reminded me abit of the book
    Called The Beetle Hunters by
    Sir Arthur Conan - Doyle
    Which is one of my favourites.
    Beetles do seem to a popular subject with Victorians & i rather like the content of such, espcially by the greats such as
    Conan - Doyle, M R James et al.
    I remember my eccentric Granny telling me about her social circle of friends in the 1920s & 30s
    Who arrived at Dinner or Cocktail
    Parties, fabulous dresses & furs etc & a fashionable trend was to wear these REAL LIVE Beetles
    Their carapaces decorated with an array of gems & jewels, pearls & coral.
    I was appalled 😨 but she laughed & said the Beetle Brooches looked divine & they were attached to the wearer by little ( here we go)
    Tiny chains on the Beetles legs & the chains fed onto a central nub which had the brooch fastening
    Underneath.
    My Grandmother also said she thought that the Beetles were stupified by some fumes before wearing, so they wouldnt take off, on the wander!
    Either that or they were some
    Somnambulent Insect from the Amazon jungle, or have i got that wrong?
    Well, Insects that are comatose in the evening esp with artificial light!
    What ever the rig- marole, its a true fact & these Evening Wear Gem studded Beetles were quite large!
    Some 3 or 4 or 5 inches long
    ( they were probably given a saucer of Napoleon Brandy before being hoisted onto the
    Sparkling dress of the lady 😆)
    Thank you Miss Worm!
    My jolly goodness! You do indeed
    Read a fine tale.
    Im predicting your subs will quadruple in 2024!
    There You Are! Believe It..
    Thank you, thank you
    Felicitations & Blessings for the New Year, Miss Worm & all your fans too!
    Peace
    🇬🇧👧x
    Oh PS, I live in North Northumberland & can ascertain there are some damn fine country houses in my neck of the woods
    Especially near & incl Alnwick & Rothbury, Tritlington etc, beautiful houses indeed.
    Buh Bye All x

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +2

      🎆Happy New Year, Itallia 🎆I so enjoy your marvellous comments - thank you for taking the time to write them.
      I remember reading about living beetle brooches a few years ago, and I knew the Egyptians (of course) had them, but I hadn’t realised they were going strong in the 20s. It’s a ghastly idea, but I’m rather taken with the thought of giving a wayward beetle a saucer of brandy. Can you imagine giant, sozzled beetles buzzing about at head height whilst the band played on? Or worse, sloshed beetles falling into a voluminous Edwardian bosom?
      Do you know….I think I *can* imagine it!

    • @itallia666
      @itallia666 Год назад +2

      @@missworm
      😁 Thank You for the compliment
      I really do enjoy writing comments to the channel when ive been so entertained!
      It just seems fitting to do so.
      I derive pleasure from writing comments too, so its a win-win
      Situation!
      Ive already commented on some big story channels about you, esp the American channels where i comment regularly & have regaled the readers about your wonderful soothing English voice
      Your own penned stories with their quirky characters & satisfying Tales.
      We have to get your Subs up!
      Anyway you deserve it, ive not said anything that isnt true.
      I think ive listened now, to everything you have uploaded
      So pounce on anything new.
      Stay as authentic as you are!
      Listeners know when they are on to a good thing.
      Heres to a successful 2024
      Peace & Goodwill
      🇬🇧👧

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +1

      Thank you for mentioning me in your comments. Feel free to cast the name of Worm far and wide!

  • @lindabopp6579
    @lindabopp6579 Год назад +4

    One of your best stories Miss Worm. Happy New Year 🙏 ❤️ 🙏

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +1

      🎆 Happy New Year, Linda 🎆. Thank you for being part of the channel in 2023 and leaving such lovely comments 💜

  • @mattbopp3977
    @mattbopp3977 Год назад +4

    That's what you get for trying to play God! Good one Miss Worm!

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +2

      🎇Happy New Year, Matt🎇. He should have stuck to the gold experiments!

  • @yusufsayed1583
    @yusufsayed1583 Год назад +6

    Good Morning 😊 Awesome Content once again👌🏽👏🏼👏🏼 Thanks for the read and have a Blessed New Year 🎉🎊 Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +2

      Happy New Year, Yusuf. I hope you had a good Christmas down there, and it wasn’t too hot. Thank you for your support through 2023 - it’s much appreciated. 🎆

  • @RedcoatsReturn
    @RedcoatsReturn Год назад +3

    My dearest Miss Worm 😄 A wonderful story…the magical power of the beetle….🪲.…that you brings to life 😲 Well done my witchy dear friend 😊👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍 Only you can tell these tales..so well…as you do 😊😉 💎

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +1

      🎆 Happy New Year, my lovely 🎆. Thank you so much for all you kind words and support in 2023 - you have been wonderfully encouraging and I really do appreciate it.
      May the New Year bring you much happiness, peace and contentment 🪄 💫

  • @Boone22
    @Boone22 Год назад +3

    Thank you Miss Worm, Have a Happy New Years!

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +1

      🥂Happy new year, Boone22. I hope you had a lovely Christmas and that 2024 sees much happiness for you and yours 💫🥂

    • @Boone22
      @Boone22 Год назад +2

      @@missworm ahhh! Thank you for the New Years blessings. Praying everyone great health,and safety as well.

  • @pipeninja1578
    @pipeninja1578 Год назад +4

    I shall never roll a die again which turns up a five without thinking of that damned beetle!😉

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +2

      …and if you hear a tick-tick-tick…run!
      May you and your family have a lovely 2024💫. Thank you for all your support and kind words in 2023 💜

    • @pipeninja1578
      @pipeninja1578 Год назад +2

      HAPPY NEW YEAR, Miss Worm!!!😊❤️

  • @evelanpatton
    @evelanpatton Год назад +6

    Beautifully read, delicately delivered as with the privilege of Christmas 12 Day pomp & ceremony; TRUELY, a lovely gift of passion & energy over time = 🕰️🪄🎁🪆. You honor & 🎉the 🖼️. I am a 🪭. 💚🎄📚📕📖📮📯📬🗝️🚪🪬🔮🕳️🐇.
    🕊️Peace be with you, as with 🧿🕊️.

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +3

      Happy New Year, Evelan. I do enjoy decoding your emoji stories - they’re great fun. Thank you for all your support and encouragement during 2023. I hope 2024 is kind to you 💫

    • @evelanpatton
      @evelanpatton Год назад

      To you as well! Enjoying these extra special holiday uploads. 🖤
      ❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚

  • @northerngirlhobbies
    @northerngirlhobbies Год назад +2

    Loved it! Can’t wait for the next one Miss W. Excellent production! Hugs from the pug nation! 💚🐾

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +1

      🥂Happy New Year, Northern Girl. Thank you for spending your time with me in 2023. All the lovely comments have really encouraged me, and they are much appreciated. Wishing you a wonderful 2024 💫

  • @camcordernonsense5264
    @camcordernonsense5264 Год назад +4

    there seem to be many stories about a horrible beetle or beetles. i wonder if there was a belief that started this or a story and it influenced other writers.

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +2

      At the time this was written Egyptomania was still in full swing. The strange gods, the mummies and the scarabs must have been an exciting influence on authors and artists. Interestingly, one of the first ‘mummy’s curse’ stories was written by Louisa May Alcott (Little Women) of all people!

    • @camcordernonsense5264
      @camcordernonsense5264 Год назад

      @@missworm i only thought of Egypt with Frasier's The Mummy. interesting stuff as usual

  • @mitchj1
    @mitchj1 11 месяцев назад +1

    Great story Miss Worm! Two summers ago I had an encounter with a 6 spotted metalic emerald green beetle on my deck. I hastily took a picture of it with cell phone before my cat ran up to it and meowed at it. That bug took off like a bat out of hades. Not flying...not jumping... but ran off as fast
    as it could.
    I do not know what frightened me more
    .. the brilliant color of it or how fast it went away.
    I contacted our local extention service and sent them my slightly blurred picture and description.
    They emailed me back stating it was a 6 spotted tiger beetle and they can run/travel 5.6 miles per hour.
    I thought we were being invaded by some unknown bug.
    God has made his own mysterious little creatures!
    Your blue beetle story brought that memory back.

    • @missworm
      @missworm  11 месяцев назад

      I looked your beetle up- what a beauty! We don't got those over here.
      I did enjoy the wiki entry for your beetle as it said "largely harmless to humans", which I thought was wonderfully vague.
      I've been trying to entice Stag Beetles into our garden for a number of years, and last year we spotted a female. Hopefully she'll find a fella and come back.

  • @thebodybeatdownDiTi
    @thebodybeatdownDiTi Год назад +5

    Nice story..as always you did great. How many takes does it take you to read through these to get them just right?

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +2

      Hello my lovely. Happy New Year 🥂.
      I, of course, am perfect every time. It’s the cats, the seagulls, neighbours, cars, lorries, motorbikes, car alarms and aeroplanes that muck it all up 😉. I live on a busy road in town so I have to keep stopping, which is quite frustrating. You’d be amazed at how many people have very loud, very personal telephone calls whilst they’re walking past my house!
      The older a book is, the harder it is to read aloud. Mainly because the sentences go on forever and don’t give one a chance to breathe! Sometimes I can whizz through a page or two in one go (a page is about 3 minutes of recorded time), and sometimes I turn into a complete cabbage and can’t string two words together. The Tell-Tale Heart was more or less one go, which was very pleasing.
      It’s much easier if it’s something I’ve written myself, because I’ve already heard it in my head.
      Editing takes ages, but I’m getting a bit more used to the software now.
      I might try and set up a little booth in the corner of the spare room if I ever get the time!

  • @oldandintheway1955
    @oldandintheway1955 Год назад +1

    Well now, that is some very wicked Beetlejuice. Alchemy is not a game for amateurs.
    Thanks for these delicious stories Miss W.
    A very Happy and Healthy 2024 to you.
    Gary π

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +1

      Wishing you the best of health and plentiful happiness for 2024 🪄💫.
      Thank you for your continued support of the channel. The shoutout you gave me last year really propelled me along. Much appreciated 💕

    • @oldandintheway1955
      @oldandintheway1955 Год назад +1

      Entirely my pleasure JMV. I enjoy your stories, comments and responses.

  • @clairegreenaway9653
    @clairegreenaway9653 Год назад +1

    Just wonderful Miss worm !Thankyou 🥰

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад

      Happy New Year, Claire 🎇. I hope you’ve enjoyed the 12 Frights. Just one left to go - hopefully I’ll get it done before Easter!

  • @JT-2012
    @JT-2012 Год назад +1

    Not the pup!! Glad it's winter and no beetles. 😵 Happy New Year, my wonderful friend. 🤗💗🎉🎆

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +1

      Happy New Year, my lovely 💕🥂. I was just the same.
      Servant girl found dead 😶
      friend died in agony😶
      wife eaten by beetles 😶
      Dog….Nooooooo! 😢
      And as for “never mind we’ll get another one”… 🌋🤣🤣

  • @michaelgreaves2375
    @michaelgreaves2375 Год назад +4

    is this a nightmare? ...or a Mystery? Maybe Both?

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +2

      I’ve filed it under Mysterious Monster Mayhem. 🎇 Happy New Year, Michael 🎇 Thank you for spending time with me in 2023 - it’s much appreciated, and I hope to see you in 2024, too.

    • @michaelgreaves2375
      @michaelgreaves2375 Год назад +2

      @@missworm You definitely will. Thank you for doing what you do so well.

  • @SusanMarie3
    @SusanMarie3 Год назад +1

    Happy New Year - lovely listening while soaking in a hot bath - thank you for the creepy tale 🐞

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад

      Happy New Yeah*, Susan Marie. Hot bath? Lucky you, our boiler conked out so we’ve had no hot water🥶🛁
      *autocorrect changed it and I thought it sounded like a fun celebration - happy new *YEAH* 🤣

  • @thedreadtyger
    @thedreadtyger Год назад +1

    my goodness! I'm so glad that my hand has been stayed from the work of the Third Circulation... albeit by lack of money.
    the little alchemy of Vegetal Circulation is all that i ever undertook.
    did i ever mention my small menagerie of carnivorous plants? perhaps not...

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +1

      Unfortunately, my own alchemical musings were curtailed by unsympathetic neighbours…all that sulphur…
      I might have to write a story about the Vegetable Stone.
      Have you read Isaac Newton & Natural Philosophy? It’s in my ‘must read’ list, but I haven’t got round to it yet.

    • @thedreadtyger
      @thedreadtyger Год назад +1

      @@missworm i have not yet read it, but i know of his furnace and of his operation of the Tree of Antimony

  • @TruckingPiper
    @TruckingPiper Год назад +1

    Miss worm I have greatly been neglecting your readings me and Momma have been under the weather and I sustained a shoulder injury at work which I will be getting a mri this week I will be checking up ❤

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +1

      Poor old you! What a rotten start to a new year. I hope it picks up for you both soon.
      I expect you know of this little bit of herbalism, but in case you don’t, here’s a wonderful treatment for frozen shoulders, dicky knees and painful boobs!
      Find the freshest, crinkliest, greenest savoy cabbage that you can. Place a leaf or two between the folds of a tea towel and then iron it. Whilst it’s still hot, place the ‘sandwich’ on the offending shoulder until it cools. Make sure you don’t burn yourself.
      It works a treat. A chemical that does the trick - can’t remember what - is released by the heat.
      Good luck with the MRI 🤞🏻 and thank you for spending time with me in 2023.
      P.s. Miss Worm is wonderful at most things, but is not a doctor 🦆 and takes no responsibility for any bits that might pack up, drop off or become irreparably useless.

  • @scottmiller2591
    @scottmiller2591 Год назад +2

    If only AG Gray, jnr., had known the word quincunx.

    • @missworm
      @missworm  Год назад +1

      I’m rather glad he didn’t - one mispronunciation, and I could have gone x-rated!
      Happy New Year, Scott 🥂