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A Victorian Ghost Story for a Sleepless Night | A Ghost's Revenge by Lettice Galbraith | Audiobook
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2023
- We wish you good fear and present this swashbuckling ghost story from the late Victorian age.
Our "Fiendishly Forgotten Female Frighteners" series continues, albeit belatedly (apologies), with "A Ghost's Revenge" by Lettice Galbraith.
Now, Lettice Galbraith is a writer who is increasingly becoming a channel favourite! Her obscure accounts of paranormal activity set down in the late Victorian era have made quite an impression on us!
In the introduction to an earlier video, "In the Séance Room," I mentioned that Miss Galbraith was "as mysterious as the tales she told." Indeed, she has been hailed as "probably the most mysterious figure in the history of supernatural literature." But, thanks to some terrific recent research by Alastair Gunn, we know much more about this enigmatic Victorian writer now.
One of the things we know, which I was so happy to learn, is that she was a Yorkshire lass! (I should add that I'm an adoptive Yorkshireman; I wasn't born in this grand county but have spent most of my life here, including my childhood.)
Lizzie Susan Gibson, or Lettie as she was known, was born in Drypool, Hull, in the old East Riding, although she later relocated to London. She adopted the pseudonym Lettice Galbraith, and her ghost stories are still mostly excluded from histories of the Victorian supernatural.
Despite writing within a genre popular in the 1890s, little is known of her biography, her literary inner circle, or those who may have influenced her.
Writers of terrifying encounters, haunting Tales, and unexplained phenomena made the most of the prevailing public fascination with the tropes of disturbing narratives. You know, misty London streets, sensational newspaper accounts, violence, and suppressed depravation. Lettie capitalised on this trend and also embraced the fascination with hypnotism and the occult revival.
Her tales have it all; scary encounters, spine-chilling experiences, eerie atmospheres, ghostly apparitions, and phantoms.
Within the conventions of 1890s supernatural fiction, Galbraith's work should have been read alongside stories by other women writers such as Louisa Baldwyn, E. Nesbit, Marie Corelli, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
It has been posited that the late Victorian period witnessed the rise of the psychological paranormal story, in which "ghosts, whether objectively existing or subjective phantoms - materialise the psychological conflicts of the ghost-seer." The fascination with scientific experimentation, the limits of art, and the explanations for hauntings and hallucinations often underpin the addiction to the "ghostly" in this era.
This story above was published in the Collection "New Ghost Stories" in 1893. I hope you enjoy listening to or watching this rendition of a long-forgotten tale. And I look forward to engaging on the next one.
Great visual artwork, good story and narrator..I am quite fond of the women writers of the 19th century
Thank you very much for saying so 😊 I am fond of them too. I hadn't realised just how many female writers of the age wrote interesting and high quality supernatural fiction. It has become something of a voyage of discovery for me. 😁
What a nice production. Kudos.
Very kind of you to say so. Thank you for watching/listening 😊
Well done! Subscribed❣
Thank you ever so much @jenford7078. And welcome aboard 😁
Absolutely fabulous‼️
♥️✨👑✨♥️
Thank you so much for saying so @mariameere5807 🤗 And for listening and watching 😊
Very professionally done
Thank you. Kind of you to say so😊
I just discovered this channel and I am so addicted.❤❤
❤ Thank you very kindly for saying so. Welcome aboard 😍🧡
Me too 😊
Thank you too and great to have you aboard as well 🧡🤗😊
Great illustrations for the story. Well done.
Thank you very much @rosiemcnaughton9933 . 😊 Very kind of you to say so🤗.
Enjoyed very much! Cee from the little haunted cottage in ireland 💚💚💚🍀🍀🍀🎄
I'm so glad you enjoyed it and thank you ever so much for saying so. A happy new year to you and yours in your haunted cottage on the emerald isle ☘☘☘☘ ☘💚💚💚
Great stuff! This is the stuff of my girlhood for I loved this type of tale at the age of 12❤😮😊😊 thank you, new sub today🎉
Glad you liked it and welcome aboard 🎈🎃 Thank you ever so much for the sub too. Your support is greatly appreciated😊
Excellent, and the snow scenes are wonderful to look at. Well done, and thankyou .
Thank you @PippaAT Very kind of you to say so and you are most welcome 😊
Cracking!
Thank you very kindly 😊
Well done!
Thank you very much @earthcat. And thanks for watching/listening.😊
Nice reading. Subscribed 😊
Thank you @jackyhawkins1895😍 Welcome aboard and I appreciate the encouragement and support. 😊
I love this author! More, please!
Thank you. I have another Lettice Galbraith on the way very soon. Just finishing up on some editing. I intend to upload more of her stories. I love her too! 😊
All the best are from Yorkshire. Who are these ladies acting in your film?
I wholeheartedly agree once more! 😁
I've been meaning to ask, is your lovely seaside residence situated on the East coast?
In this video I used the dreaded AI to perform the female voice. I've tried my hand at female voices in some other tales like "Spinach" and "In the Séance Room" but my range is limited 😁
I do not live on the Mainland. But I know the East Coast very well. I like the attempt at the female voice in the Spinach and In The Seance Room , it has a certain characteristic that for me adds to the enjoyment, so please do not change. I am afraid AI is becoming the nightmare part of life. I dread to think where this will lead… I LOVE the naturalness of life. AI is not the magic wizard to enlightenment we were promised, instead we are being corroded by technology, the supposedly advancement of progression which is not making life easier, it is turning into a disease much worse than anything we could have imagined. Think of the Billionaire character’s in such old films as 007, that will be the future.
I know what you mean about AI, and it is a concern that because the technology is improving so rapidly, the fear is that it may take over and replace so many aspects of life that we love and don’t wish to see automated. I intend to use it more sparingly in the future. With the AI generated images, I tend to play around with the design elements manually to get the desired effect.
I was watching the 1989 TV film of The Woman in Black” last night and even though it was filmed and presented in a 4:3 box style it was still very compelling. There is no CGI, and it is reminiscent of films like The Haunting (1963) and The Innocents (1961). It is eerily atmospheric and delivers some genuinely scary shocks. I preferred it to the 2012 version with Harry Potter in it. That certainly had its moments, but they were mostly created with Computer Generated Effects. The old ways still hold sway with me😁.
Thank you for your comments about my “female voices”. I intend to keep working on them. But I know what you mean; male narrators often have to convey voices of female characters and also characters that are much younger or older than they themselves are.😊
I recently watched the 1989 Woman in Black with Bernard again as I love that story but when she hovers over the bed I cannot watch. I have read the book, seen the play at the London Theatre, watched the Daniel Radcliffe movie, watched the 1989 TV play plus listened to the BBC Radio play. This and the Haunting are my two favourite’s. But they leave me with unsettling feelings so I do not watch them often.😊 Happy hauntings 👁️👤🗣️
Oh yes indeed! The actual “woman in black” herself in the 1989 version is terrifying! The scenes she’s in are so simply done too, no background music or special effects, just a gloomy graveyard in broad daylight. And you are so right. When she appears above Arthur Kidd in the bed is the stuff of nightmares! 😨😱
If she's that dark brunette, she was also a smokin hot Victorian
😂 The dark brunette is definitely going to feature in future videos!