The Tractate Middoth: A Chillingly Haunting Ghost Story by M.R. James
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- M. R. James's The Tractate Middoth is a classic ghost story first published in 1911.
This short story takes place in a library and is about a mysterious book called the Tractate Middoth. The book holds the key to righting a family wrong, but the evil deceased has made it as difficult as possible to prolong the agony of his heirs.
Follow the main character, a librarian, as he becomes obsessed with finding out the secrets of a book and is pulled deeper and deeper into a dark and scary world.
Listen to "The Tractate Middoth" audiobook episode today on The Classic. Ghost Stories Podcast and get lost in the creepy atmosphere of this masterful work.
Thanks to Gavin Critchley for supporting this episode.
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Thank you. I can’t afford to send anything to you, but I still enjoy your stories. My son pays for my phone , and I go to bed early and listen to you telling these tales with such enjoyment. Good stories and you are an excellent narrator. Thanks… so much. X
I really enjoy this particular James story. I have listened to this more times than I can count. Thank you so much Gavin for supporting this and Tony for such a great reading!
Absolutely love everything M R James ever wrote. This story is no exception. He was a brilliant, talented and gifted storyteller. You are the one that brings these stories to life. Your golden voice is perfection and and captivating. Thank You ❤
I always ❤ the cockney accents. I grew up in Jamaica and heard many Anansi stories as a child. Even now we have older people who don't say spiders, but call all spiders, Anansi. From our stories Anansi was a clever prankster who enjoyed laughing at the misfortune of others. He was very selfish and a bit of a foodie who had a love/hate relationship with his friends and family.
+Lisa P. Great comment 👍
Thanks for the lovely narration of this amazing story.
Thank you very much. Much appreciated.
Thank you Gavin for sponsoring this!
Some of your best voicework so far in this one, really superb
You are my fav! Thanks again Tony, and thanks to you Gavin!
Thanks. I always like your name.
Thank you Gavin for your generosity and of course thank you too Tony 😊
Hardest working person in the biz. You are spoiling us my friend, but please don't stop 😉💜
Many thanks indeed to Mr. G. Critchly and Mr. Walker, both. Another very enjoyable and satisfying reading of a great classic ghost story. Also, very good notes and food for thought at the end. I thoroughly enjoyed this, as I do seem to enjoy all the readings on this excellent channel. At least I have yet to come across one that has made me feel otherwise. I am a relative newcomer, but have made good use of the library thus far, and am very grateful for it.
All the best!
Thanks, Gavin Critchley, and Tony. 👍👏✌️
Thanks!
thank you so much
Thanks!
Traci Brown you rock
Great story thank you Gavin for being so generous and thank you Tony really enjoyed the story
Its a pleasure!
Ten minutes in and this is the most British story I've ever heard.
One of my favourite stories from one of my favourite authors and very well read sir, thank you.
Thanks Gavin,
a classic James creepy crawly story!
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Thanks Gavin! Always loved this one. Thanks Tony too!
Yay, now I have something cosy for tonight, it's getting close to bedtime at my place (Sweden) Thank you so very much, love to listen to your readings 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Cool' I wish I was listening to this in Sweden!! All ways fancied visiting looks such a lvly place and people who I've met from Sweden have always been lvly also..enjoy and good night... X
@@garymcdonnell5791 Aww, you are so sweet!!!! I hope you come and visit us 🥰Things are back to the ordinary after the pandemic, Stockholm is once again wonderfully goofy and laid back. Yes, we are dealing with an elevated crime rate but this is still a safe place and people are helpful and nice (they may look grumpy riding the bus to work but when you smile at them they light up like spring flowers).
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I love your passion as you explore the stories you read.
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Big Thank You to Gavin! Great Reading, Tony---I don't give even a tiny rat's ass about "classist" profiling of fictional characters---I love the humor of it. The old man isn't lower class---but he's amusing as well because he's so gleeful about being an evil git.
Your characterisations and accents were so good. Loved it, thank you so much xx
Some trivia on this one. There is also a 1951 TV version from the US series Lights Out. Called "The Lost Will of Dr Rant" and starring a young Leslie Nielson: th-cam.com/video/uu4DUnS4ZZQ/w-d-xo.html
Very much enjoying this story. Thanks!
Thank you so much Gavin!! I'm over 65 need to work, this means a lot to me.
Awesome one! I was wondering about John Eldred early on, but when I heard his name mentioned and actions described later......
Sometimes the shady ones get their due.....
Good ending for Mr. Garrett
Great job, Tony! Thanks for narrating this for us!
The man who wrote the will sounded off his rocker.what a nasty trick to play and he enjoyed being nasty to the lady with no money.
"Mean. Both the American and the PROPER sense of the word." 😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you Tony and thank you Gavin. Love these M R James stories
Thank you Tony.
I recently attended a funeral of an old man who became so embittered toward his life and complicated family that he decided days before his death to change his will to leave all his land to "children of his surname born in the next ten years after his passing". Sounds reasonable enough. But all of his legitimate children are past parenting age and their children don't carry the family name.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if funnelweb spiders infesed his urn!
Love Anansi tales, Skunk Anansi, and a Neil Gaiman book called
"Anansi Boys".
A final act of spite. There’s a story in that
Sure is, I hope his eldest son writes it.
With its marriage and happily-ever-after ending it reads like M R James meets Jane Austin.
Yes. More romance than Monty usually gets into
I've listened to this story done by many other readers, but this was the first time I was able to fully comprehend the story elements. It was quite enjoyable.
You have made it a fab Friday!! Thank you so much Tony! Have a great weekend!! 🙏
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Always loved Michael Horden's reading of this-but you certainly are in that class. Thanks...
A great compliment.
Btw...just put a purple...or violet (?) mug in my basket. VERY exciting! 💜
Well I’m colour blind so purple violet and blue are just shades of the same colour to me :)
@@ClassicGhost Speaking of Shade (sorta) how are those precious pups?
One of my favorites. Very entertaining narration and commentary. Thank you, Gavin. And thank you, Tony for all of your hard work for us.
Thanks M.
The Tractate Middoth is a real book. Great for scholars of Judaism and insomniacs.
I didn’t know that!
@@ClassicGhost It's a description of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Maimonides was a Medieval scholar of the Talmud. Dr. Rant chose a book that nobody would look into.
I read books. Reading has always been my favorite pastime. Even in summer as a child I remember sitting under the large shade tree in our yard with a book. 💜
Thank you Gavin and Tony!
This is one of my favorite stories!
Thank you, Gavin! Wonderful reading, Tony.
Thank you Gavin who has sponsored Tony.Good story
I love this story.
Thanks mate
Thank you And thank Gavin! Is there s link available to the proper Gavin Critchley please?
Are you still selling the previous merch as well as the ones shown here please?
Tbh I’ve not done much with the merch. Which design did you want ?
Great story! Thanks to Gavin and Tony!
Please, extend my hearty thanks to Gavin and the teller of tales. On another subject, First Natives of America regard their old stories as sacred. I have come to understand one must be very careful in orally retelling these religious stories. For example, certain stories can only be told during certain times of the year. I'm leading to this, can the same be said of Native African sacred stories? BTW, I love the old Anansi trickster stories. My favorite being, Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock. Whatever you do, never ever ever ever say it out loud. "What a strange moss....."
Don't worry...he does!
If Gaiman can write about Anisazi so can you Tony.
Good on ya Gav
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Thanks!
Thank you very much!
Excellent reading. I'm increasingly in the mood for stuff like this of late.
The year is turning that way.
Isn't being buried in sitting position a jewish thing? They supposed to stand up first on judgement day or something.
Well, the Tractate Middoth was a description of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Perhaps Dr. Rant was a rabbi and not an Anglican priest.
Gavin THANK YOU for supporting & celebrating the CREATIVE ARTs; SHORT STORIES, which are the most like myths & folklore, in the condensed adventures which tell of human conditionings as well as the super natural, otherworldly, subconscious, super conscious veils, we LEARN & EVOLVE our own consciousness; so, while surely your gift of support entertains the masses, we also are capably enriched in our enlightenment of knowledge- even if only our vocabulary, sentence structuring, and writing are the known influences, through STORYTELLING WE CONNECT TO THE GRID OF THE LIVING, out of space & time, in the NOW.
So, again, THANK YOU, Gavin!
Tony, your PROfessionalesque productions engage your listeners without feeling “promotional” on someone else’s behest, because your GENUINE DESIRE to CONNECT with others through the gift(s) of STORY remain solid behind every upload; in this age of EXCESSIVE mass marketing & “influencing” on the behalf/behest of motivating commerce, many CREATIVE ARTS seem bent by commercialization, but when I listen to your uploaded productions I, your listeners, transcends to the PRIMAL STORY TIME- to ÉXPAND & ENTERTAIN our human experience of now by CREATING A THEN…when…, and so on and on the web grows. Thank you for supporting the INTERNET WEB to contain the ESSENTIAL ARTISTIC VALUES of the our timeless human web.
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Thanks Gavin for sponsoring this story! Tony: a question: Would the female relative not be able to have access to the libraries? Why would the nephew have access to the book and she wouldn't?
I'm not the right man to ask. M R James would know, but you might need a medium to ask the question!
Could be a reserved section of the library.
Adore M.R. James👻 Only problem that by now it’s been a least a decade since I finished reading his whole body of works…..This unfortunately goes for every last scrap of E.A. Poe…😿
Thank you, Gavin!
Thank you
awful stuff
Loved this! Thoroughly good story!
Thanks! 😊🙏
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10 minutes in and board senseless.
Thank you Gavin. Good work Tony. I appreciate you gentlemen immensely. I always feel like James is very academically conservative. He has a super imagination, but I always feel that he really knows who he is. His loves stories and he wants to draw us in, but he's no occultist.