Between The Lights by E F Benson

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  • Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
  • A Christmas Weird Tale. A man goes to stay with a friend in a comfortable English country house and it snows and snows. By the fire his host begins to tell a rather unsettling tale.
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Комментарии • 58

  • @KayBacci
    @KayBacci 2 месяца назад +2

    E.F. Benson and Tony Walker! A perfect combination! 👌

  • @martiwilliams4592
    @martiwilliams4592 Месяц назад +1

    Ditto 2 yrs. later! You're the best, Tony.

  • @jeffreese1828
    @jeffreese1828 2 года назад +24

    You got that story out of the locked drawer today , DIDN'T YOU ??
    💀🎱💀

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  2 года назад +9

      I have a locked drawer where I keep the best stories.

  • @violetfemme411
    @violetfemme411 2 года назад +3

    I love EF Benson...almost as much as Tony Walker 😉❤

  • @annabellreads
    @annabellreads 2 года назад +12

    Excellent narration of a classic tale as always! One of the things that always makes me smile when I read Edwardian ghost stories is that there seemed to be a bit of a trend where they just chop the denoument part clean off, quite abruptly, especially if they're using a framing device like this one... "wait, is that all?" "yup." THE END. Cracks me up every time.

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  2 года назад +5

      I often say that if the classic Victorians And Edwardianswere writing now many of them wouldn’t get published

    • @annabellreads
      @annabellreads 2 года назад

      @@ClassicGhost There's one way to test that hypothesis... have you considered a graf in your next ghost story which just says something like, "I would describe the monster, but it's simply too chilling; I don't want to scare you too much." haha

    • @David-Gerard
      @David-Gerard Год назад

      I agree completely. However instead of cracking me up, I find it unsatisfying and frustrating.

  • @tracythomas132
    @tracythomas132 Год назад +3

    This story always reminds me of Daphne du Maurice’s “House on the Strand”

  • @mijiyoon5575
    @mijiyoon5575 2 года назад +2

    Agree, it is a wyrd tale ... luv the closing music 👍👍👍👍👍🎄

  • @martiwilliams4592
    @martiwilliams4592 2 года назад +5

    You are masterful in your presentation,you can certainly tell a tale the way it should be told.Thank you for your hard work!

  • @Tinyflypie
    @Tinyflypie 2 года назад +4

    I tried to get into the locked drawer yesterday

  • @terryIKE69
    @terryIKE69 2 года назад +9

    An inspired choice selection of story. And equal expert narration. You, my friend, are the true gift that keeps on giving... Cheers!

  • @mickeythompson9537
    @mickeythompson9537 2 года назад +3

    Excellent reading.
    EF Benson wrote the deepest ghost stories.

  • @gogodmore
    @gogodmore 2 года назад +9

    Another superbly narrated tale, Tony! Safe passage on the way to Amsterdam. Have a grand time! And much appreciation as always.

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  2 года назад +1

      We had a good time. The boat inspired my story North Sea 3 a. m.

  • @Rossion64
    @Rossion64 2 года назад +6

    I always thought this to be one of the creepiest stories. Really chilling. Excellent narration!

  • @evelanpatton
    @evelanpatton 2 года назад +4

    Love the creepy laughing kiddies (or pixies) @ the end.

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  2 года назад +1

      I'd like to say that was me, but it wasn't

  • @mariameere5807
    @mariameere5807 2 года назад +5

    Once you start reading, I start to relax, honestly you could read the phonebook and I’d be quite happy! You choose your stories well! Don’t get too stoned in Amsterdam!!! Or do depending on your preference! LOL!

  • @bethcastagnoli2911
    @bethcastagnoli2911 2 года назад +6

    Great story, excellent narration!

  • @angelaroberts2803
    @angelaroberts2803 Год назад

    Very interesting.Thanks tony.

  • @seamusheinousproductions
    @seamusheinousproductions 2 года назад +2

    Great opening graphic on this one

  • @nancynickerson4341
    @nancynickerson4341 2 года назад +4

    A creepy story, wonderful narration as always!

  • @bluegreenglue6565
    @bluegreenglue6565 2 года назад +3

    Very nice. All I needed was a hot drink in my hand.

  • @stardust949
    @stardust949 2 года назад +2

    Excellent----was wrapping gifts while listening! thank you Tony!

  • @David-Gerard
    @David-Gerard Год назад +1

    Great job you’re doing. Not only your narration, but your selections to add to your catalogue. I know a lot of them are requests, but it’s your taste that determines the ones you go with.

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  Год назад

      I have a backlog of requests that gets interrupted by my own fancies. I need to catch up

  • @richardstrachmesserschmiti4979
    @richardstrachmesserschmiti4979 Год назад +1

    I know this will be excellent 👍

  • @roxanavasilakis9435
    @roxanavasilakis9435 Год назад +1

    Thanks dear Tony 🎉🌳

  • @kathleenwagner7444
    @kathleenwagner7444 6 месяцев назад +1

    The fin de siecle period seems to have produced a number of stories like this. Grant Allen's 1892 tale "Pallinghurst Barrow" and Buchan's "No Man's Land" (1902) both feature, as this story does, horrific encounters with remnants of ancient peoples of the British Isles. The same period brought Kipling's whimsical Puck of Pook's Hill (1906), less terrifying and softened into a series of tales of British history. I wonder whether the social quality of that time, so smooth on the surface and so unsettled beneath, produced a kind of psychic unease in which the suggestion of violent survivals of long-ago savagery struck a chord. As if to put the cherry on the top there came in 1904 Sabine Baring-Gould's humorous "H.P.", in which an archaeologist digging in France has a conversation with an eight-thousand-year-old cave dweller about how times have changed since H.P.'s (Homo Praehistoricus) day. When a subject is handled variously with humor and terror, you know it stirs some concern in the backs or fronts of people's minds.

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  6 месяцев назад

      Excellent comment. Do you teach this subject?

  • @glosteiger2517
    @glosteiger2517 Год назад +1

    Excellent! Your reading and voice are wonderful.

  • @zenamorgan1754
    @zenamorgan1754 2 года назад +2

    This was intensely creepy for me. So loving it

  • @angelariley.9963
    @angelariley.9963 2 года назад +1

    Well told. Thank you.

  • @sarahsamaria8283
    @sarahsamaria8283 2 года назад +1

    Eerie story. Deja vu vision before the actual event happened. And yet the impact was so intense. At least an opportunity to liberate himself from the shackles that was holding him back.

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  2 года назад

      +Sarah Samaria I love that you love these stories

  • @pisiata3651
    @pisiata3651 Год назад +1

    I hope, and i pray, i hope this happens to every single hunter in the world!

    • @adriennewalker1715
      @adriennewalker1715 4 месяца назад

      Me too! …. But I did enjoy the story nonetheless!

  • @Cinedragon
    @Cinedragon 2 года назад +2

    29:00 Ey, you're going to visit my country. I hope you have fun!

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  2 года назад +2

      Netherlands? We did. I had a big cake, not hash. I tried that when I was young and I got paranoid so I've avoided it since. This was chocolate. Which is a superfood apparently

    • @Cinedragon
      @Cinedragon 2 года назад

      @@ClassicGhost Yup, Netherlands indeed! Never had hash cake myself, but if you want to find things like that, Amsterdam is the perfect place XD

  • @applewagon253
    @applewagon253 2 года назад +3

    I JUST read this story! Such a great Christmas spook.

  • @martiwilliams4592
    @martiwilliams4592 2 года назад +1

    Gripping, enchanting 2x around.. this time able to give thumbs up although my pc sound is worse quality than my tv.

  • @katyvdb5993
    @katyvdb5993 2 года назад +1

    Did the ghillie get back safely? He obviously knew there was danger, and I'm worried about him.

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  2 года назад +1

      He did, Katy. Don't worry. My uncle knows him and he said he was fine.

  • @itallia666
    @itallia666 2 года назад +1

    Yes I also like EF Benson's tales
    I liked his story of the underground tube station or train!
    Have you ever heard of a really good ghostly tale called
    The Haunted Railway Station
    Written by Arnold Ridley, who was the really old genteel character in Dads Army!
    ( the old Home Front Soldier with bladder problems)
    Gosh ive forgotten his name just this minute! I'll probably wake up at 3:30am & remember it when its too late!
    Ah well, i do like your t-shirts & tops!
    I always wanted to get long black t shirt with the quotation:
    " Non Omni Moria"!
    Or words similar which translated mean:
    Not All of Me Will Die!
    I like that & hope to bare this legend in the correct latin of course, emblazoned across my gravestone!
    Failing that i guess I'd be as happy to go with:
    Nolens Volens
    Which is the Latin for
    Willy Nilly
    Hmmm 🤔 i wonder if you could combine the 2 latin quotations
    So it means
    Not all of me will die in a willy nilly fashion.!
    As i was never a student of latin yet im strangly draw to Latin quotes but have no idea of latin grammar
    So cant say for defo if
    Non Omni Moria Nolens Volens
    Would be correct
    Ah well! Thank you for your smashin stories, Bonny Lad
    Cheerio for the mo
    😉🙋‍♀️

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  2 года назад

      Bizarrely someone sent me a tweet in Latin today. I got most of it. Not all. I remember Arnold Ridley (not personally). And of course I loved Dad's Army. Who didn't

    • @itallia666
      @itallia666 2 года назад

      @@ClassicGhost thanks for yr reply 😁
      Yes, veni vidi veci ( sorry Latinists for my appalling spelling)
      I think latin quotes are superb !
      I used to own a humongous book of quotations( by Readers Digest! Every household in the country had a R.D. book on the shelves circa 1960,70, 80, 90)
      Which had every language conceivable's wise or witty quotation!
      Actually i found the story by
      Arnold Ridley, its called simply,
      Ghost Train & its 1hr 25mins duration
      Also i remembered Arnold was Private Godfrey
      So i listened again this morning & it was even better than i remembered
      I noticed one of the principle characters was played by a fellow actor although IN Dads Army & was the not often seen, but a Hooray Henry, posh, plummy voiced captain in HQ.
      But more oft seen as the younger toff Captain in
      It Aint 'alf Hot, Mum!
      Well that actor is in Arnolds Ghost Train story & he plays the part of
      A Hooray Henry, snobby Oik!
      Har har, arf arf! Its such a wheeze & all that wizardy prang stuff
      Defo worth listen! Great play & wonderful characters
      Love your stories & enjoy your excellent narrations
      Keep well & Best Yuletide Greetings
      HQ

  • @Josephinejefferies
    @Josephinejefferies 2 месяца назад

    Very odd story

  • @MSYNGWIE12
    @MSYNGWIE12 2 года назад

    Have a great holiday Tony. Happy Christmas to you and your family and All the Best, continued success in 2022. Thanks for another wonderful year of escapist literature. Namaste

  • @Tazirai
    @Tazirai 2 года назад +1

    Suteke da ne. Perfecto.