Oh Hells bells.... I'm in North Idaho...nothing better than a good story with stormy noises outside...grap a cat....cuddle under ..and have a good time.😊⛄
Listening to your channel and compilations is saving my little English teacher insomniac brain. Thank you so much for your channel and work. You make such a difference.
This is my favorite of your rain compilations. It's got old favorites, some new stuff, (to me) and it's really long. Excellent, Tony! I hope that you know how much I appreciate you.
May I suggest the audiobook called The Chimes narrated by Tony. It's by Charles Dickens and I just discovered it by accident. I can't believe I'd never heard of it before, as I find Dickens brilliant and I adore Victorian England. It's a most compelling ghost story and very complex. I wouldn't want anyone else narrating it except Tony. Please enjoy Ronald. Louise Australia.
With any collection of tales, whatever their theme, it is absolutely important that the first story in the collection be a really great one, one that grabs your attention and keeps it. This collection supplies that. The first tale is very short, but really impressive. Was it a ghost story or a time travel story? Two people meet, and give comfort to each other on Christmas Eve. Each one is left with the question----was one of them a ghost?
Thank you Tony, you are spoiling us with so many great Christmas ghost stories. Happy holidays to everyone 🙏⛄🎄 P. S. Just realized that my favorite spooky Xmas story is included, Christmas Eve on a haunted hulk. I heard it for the first time 4 Christmases ago. I make sure I listen to it a few times during the holiday season now. Thx again Tony ☃️🎁🧑🎄
❤️from new digs in the bat black countryside-and Tony, it’s raining🌧buckets. Can’t locate a change of clothes but PG Tips and teapot to hand, and a few dry biscuits. Listeners: your fellow fan of CGS has become a 🏴cliché.
Thank u for these stories-in-the-rain videos. Your voice is very soothing. Could u make the videos fade to black screen after about 10 seconds? In this case it would help us to fall asleep to them if we wish to do so.
Thanks for uploading this Tony! I have been following you for years as Wmnoffaith1, and I've enjoyed our many book chats. I see I'm entering this under my other channel name, but frankly it seems too much bother to switch over this morning. ( It's 5am here). I'm awake because I'm recently out of hospital due to a fall and broken ribs, and an unfortunate recent diagnosis. So, I am so pleased to be able to lay here and listen to your soothing voice, and past Christmases, and not think about a Christmas that I won't be participating in this year. If you by chance see this, and can find a few minutes to respond, I'd be thrilled to pick your brain. I have people who want me to open a Gofundme, (with which I'm uncomfortable) for my upcoming infusion treatments. I'd rather, though, sell my writing and have them help me in that way. I'm mentioning this to you, due to the times I've heard you say, " Instead of buying me a coffer, buy one of my books". I also know you have Patreons. So, I'm sure you'll understand when I say, I'd rather leave published works behind me, for people to read, than just a memory of me as a Gofundme account. That isn't exactly a legacy, lol. What I'm wondering is, in the interest of Time constraints, do you think it better to self publish, perhaps through Amazon? Or maybe, set up a domain and website and upload my writing/ books there? I realize you aren't an advisor, lol. If you maybe could give some tips, or even refer me to a website, book or resource where I could find out what the options are,and how it is done, I would really be very grateful. I want to try to get on as quickly as I can, and don't have 6 months or a year to toss this around. So, I'm following age old advice: if you need to build a mousetrap, don't take the time to figure out how to build one from scratch. Just find someone who has already built a mousetrap and ask them how they did it. In my case,, I'm not looking for writing assistance or advice, lol,, so don't worry. I'm not going to ask you for writing or editing assistance ( or to adopt me as a fledgling writer). I'm just hoping for some logistical advice on how it's set up.Any information you can point me to would be appreciated. If you do not have time to respond, I completely understand. It's the holiday season and everyone is very busy, so if I don't hear back from you, thank you for all of your lovely writing and uploads. It might be funny to you to know it was reading your first ghost story that put this idea in my head. Although he died, his work was still published, and people were reading it many years hence. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! To Tony and all of the listeners on his channel. Cheryl
I recognise and remember you Wmnoffaith. I am familiar with Gofundme (through a colleague actually) and of course I’m familiar with Amazon KDP and also Patreon and Kofi and all of them really. I have also set up websites, and they take a long time to deliver anything. So… Patreon is really an ongoing thing that people come into and drop out of. I feel that you have to keep giving the patrons things back in return for their investment. Websites are very slow and there is no guarantee these days without a tremendous amount of work that anyone will find them. The Gonfundme would be for a specific purpose - for the infusions and I think that is separate from you leaving your work. I would do both self-publish on KDP and do an Gofundme. Forgive me for not knowing, but what format are your books in.
@@ClassicGhost Well, right now they are in hardcopy( as in written, but I can easily get them read in or typed). I actually had a publishing contract in my " previous " life before I got sick to write a medical billing and Coding textbook for F.A. Davis. That was a littledifferentof course, being nonfiction, but I still had to do manuscript proposal and submission, and I actually did get a response instead of a rejection slip, and an offer, so I'm not totally unfamiliar with that process. I'm only explaining this, I guess kind of as proof that I can write. I understand what you are saying about getting people to your website, but if I have lots of people who want to go to my Gofundme ,do you think it's possible to direct those same people to a website? I know it's very difficult in the regular way, to get into an algorithm and get Google or any search engine to actually list your web page, but I was thinking that the people I write comments and essays for every day, are the ones that want to keep me going, because they say they " benefit from my writing and want to keep me in the world ", which I find absurdly touching. I never expected it, certainly. I know with Gofundme, you basically give away a percentage to them, they decide when you can have the money, and based on your written or verbal opinions, may opt not to give you your money at all. There was more than 5 million dollars raised for the truckers in Gofundme. Not only did Gofundme freeze the account and not disburse the money, but they actually negatively impacted the checking accounts of the people who donated and many had their accounts frozen. So, that's one of the reasons I'm leary about it as well. I guess I see setting up the website as a venue where people can go to purchase my books ( collections of essays, and writing, nonfiction, mostly of a Christian nature), and paying through Samsung Pay, Apple pay etc. I'm just looking into it now. I'm trying to figure out primarily how to format the book. As for the Patrons, I plan on trying to keep giving back as long as I'm here, lol, and then after I'm gone, then they will have what I've written. Just not sure in this almost completely ebook age, the best way to go about it. Thank you so much Tony, for taking your time to even read this. I'll appreciate any input you can give me. This week will be devoted to getting my writings consolidated and re edited, and in one place. They are online but not in one location which is how so many people have read them. I'm just trying to figure out the best plan. Maybe I should get a good writers app or software, dump everything on there and format it. My real question I guess, would be ," Do I copyright the works myself, or go through a self publishing company like Amazon?" How does Patreon work when someone wants to donate money to commission a work or thank you for a work? Thank you again for any information you can point me towards, and please forgive me that this is all over the map. As you can probably understand my mind is in 50 places tonight. Luckily, I'll be publishing primarily what I've " already " written. God bless you Tony for all of the hours I've enjoyed on your channel and for reaching out to a fellow writer. 🙏
@@ClassicGhost That’s funny, I was actually quoting the beginning of the story lol. But, I’ve also read that book, listened, more than once. Really good
As for creating the index on TH-cam, I know not. But I have observed many such indexes. Perhaps someone more gifted than myself would assist you. A merry Christmas to you sir and thank you for your efforts
Thank you so, so much. these stories were so delightful. but, who in the hell is the reader? did i miss his name in all the notes? he is absolutely one of the best actors i’ve ever heard reading a book. isn’t there union thing that he must get the credit? do please let me know. thanks :) i loved these stories. my favorite is the last one. it’s hilarious. poor guy. so glad he got away and that he loved that rambunctious, playful dog 🐕 :) and i bet the minute the little maid left that cottage, she thought that she didn’t know what came over her. a man with such awful habits and a writer who probably wrote horrible, grisly stories. LOL thanks again :) 🫣😯🌷🌱 is
I stored this to watch later….. Later has come 😅 Happy Xmas to you and your lovely other half! You deserve it with bells 🔔 on! Christmas Bells 🤦🏼♀️! Oh yes I did! (Go there)✨ 🌹🕊🤍✨🧚♀️✨🤍🕊🌹
If you like this, you'll probably this M R James compilation with rain sounds too th-cam.com/video/4fMwoirxUz4/w-d-xo.html
Wish you would upload all your videos with rain 😃
That compilation is also excellent!
Love it!
Oh Hells bells....
I'm in North Idaho...nothing better than a good story with stormy noises outside...grap a cat....cuddle under ..and have a good time.😊⛄
Great selection of stories. They are so fitting for this time of year.
The narration, as always, is fantastic!
Thanks!
Thank you and a Merry Christmas to all who follow this wonderful channel
Thank you and Merry Christmas to you and yours as well 🎄🙏
Best wishes to you!!!
@@michellebastiani6470 Winter Blessings to you and all you love.
@@janetcw9808 🫶✌️🙏
Merry Christmas too you dear soul. 🌲 Thank you. 😊
This is a real treat! Thank you Tony.
Listening to your channel and compilations is saving my little English teacher insomniac brain. Thank you so much for your channel and work. You make such a difference.
Aww. I am in awe of English teachers
The joy your stories bring are sheer delight- fire going, sunsetting and hot chocolate. Thank you again @classicghost 🎉❤
So beautifully written, that first story, and a voice and reading to match. Wonderful!
Starting this year's treat already at the beginning of November . Love this. Thank you!
As always, masterful Tony. Never tire of your stories, narrations meeting again and again much loved friends. Thank you!
These are so lovely at bedtime. Thank you
Good night!
Aye. 'Appen it were
Ditto, Tony. Just as gripping word-pictures this time around. Thank you.
Savior Gate is such a gem of a story. Thank you @classicghoststories.
It is . I used to think that’s where I’d like to spend the afterlife
Wonderful readings. Thank you. Special thanks for the beautiful Christmas poem at the end. It blessed me much.
I love the addition of sound to these! Thanks again Tony, Merry Christmas!!!
Starting to listen to Christmas stories again as end of November.
This is my favorite of your rain compilations. It's got old favorites, some new stuff, (to me) and it's really long. Excellent, Tony! I hope that you know how much I appreciate you.
It's very long
These are wonderful to enjoy over a port or a Christmas punch beside the chimney...thank you!
Now you’re talking
@@ClassicGhost This is what I do!
This is fantastic! Started seeking out Christmas Ghost stories a few years ago. Thank you for doing this! These readings are so much fun!
May I suggest the audiobook called The Chimes narrated by Tony. It's by Charles Dickens and I just discovered it by accident. I can't believe I'd never heard of it before, as I find Dickens brilliant and I adore Victorian England. It's a most compelling ghost story and very complex. I wouldn't want anyone else narrating it except Tony. Please enjoy Ronald. Louise Australia.
Merry Christmas everybody and have a fantastic 2023
Thank you.merry Christmas 🎄🎁😊
With any collection of tales, whatever their theme, it is absolutely important that the first story in the collection be a really great one, one that grabs your attention and keeps it. This collection supplies that. The first tale is very short, but really impressive. Was it a ghost story or a time travel story? Two people meet, and give comfort to each other on Christmas Eve. Each one is left with the question----was one of them a ghost?
A life saver ! A Thousand Thank Yous ! ✨️🎄✨️🎄✨️🎄✨️
Looking forward to a cup of hot chocolate, some cream cheese and crackers, and these stories.
Settle down and enjoy :)
Thank you Tony, you are spoiling us with so many great Christmas ghost stories. Happy holidays to everyone 🙏⛄🎄
P. S. Just realized that my favorite spooky Xmas story is included, Christmas Eve on a haunted hulk. I heard it for the first time 4 Christmases ago. I make sure I listen to it a few times during the holiday season now. Thx again Tony ☃️🎁🧑🎄
Happy Christmas! Thank you for the great stories 👍
Thank you so much! These stories helped me get my young siblings to sleep tonight!!!!! Also new sub here!!
+Mirai Winters thank you very much Mirai. Glad you and they enjoyed
I am obsessed with Christmas Ghost tales. Thank you for these!
Glad you like them! Me too
This is so good, thank you! A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family xx
Excellent work Tony 💖
Savior Gate is a wonderful story. Thank you.
Ralph Bain is my newest fictional 😊best friend
Lovely stories. Thank you.
Thank you 🙏
Christmas eve on a Haunted Hulk I really enjoyed that one!
A muddy cold Christmas there
Perfect ! Love it
One year later...another Christmas gone by. Thank you for this compilation . Happy 2024 🎉👻
You are welcome
Thank you for this wonderful holiday gift! Merry Christmas and Blessed Yule!
Seasonal Spirits 🎄
Thank you so much for putting this together, Tony! 🎄- Annie, all the way from Texas
How's the weather in Texas?
Hi Erik! Will be nice if the weather gets cooler for us here in Texas. Love the stories!!! @classicghost ❤
Annie- my fellow Texan neighbor- I’m outside of Houston on the Gulf. Where are you located? Treasure these stories!!!!
Looking forward to you reading me to sleep tonight! You have Avery soothing voice! 📖😊😴
+Janie Sippel hope you slept well
Yay! Loving it!
Masterful, your usual presentations-much too powerful for sleep. Thank you, Tony.😊😊😊
sleep sleep
I will try again
I have just come across your channel. Lovely storytelling, I enjoy your voice. Thank you and Merry Christmas 🎄🎁
+M Ru merry Christmas
Great stuff and well read. Thank you and happy holidays!
Happy Christmas Eve 2022 🎄⛄🕯️🌟
Happy Christmas Eve 💕🎄🎁⛄😇
❤️from new digs in the bat black countryside-and Tony, it’s raining🌧buckets. Can’t locate a change of clothes but PG Tips and teapot to hand, and a few dry biscuits. Listeners: your fellow fan of CGS has become a 🏴cliché.
Frost here . Nice though and makes a change from rain
Merry Christmas Everyone.. Stay Safe..
Wonderful. Espey at this time of year
Thank u for these stories-in-the-rain videos. Your voice is very soothing. Could u make the videos fade to black screen after about 10 seconds? In this case it would help us to fall asleep to them if we wish to do so.
I think then TH-cam has an issue with them not being videos. Can you turn your screen off? Or turn the brightness down on your phoney?
New sub, brilliant story telling thank you. Blessings to everyone with health and happiness.
Thank you
U too 😊🎄
Good health and happiness 😁🙏💟🎄🧑🎄🎁⛄
Christmas meeting...so sweet ❤
🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁 *Thanks Tony*
Lovely Happy Holidays
Lovely Happy Christmas ⛄🎁🎄❄️❄️❄️🍭❤️🧡❤️🩹🌷🎉🥰💘🥱🥱🧑🎄🥂😴😴😁😃😛😔
Thanks!!!
Welcome!
New subscriber to your channel, I love your stories
Thank you
Thank you
Why do we need it to be raining? Brrrrr
Incase ur indoors and warm … for a cosy atmosphere
Merry Christmas
Early, but I thought I'd get it in :) thank you. Same to you too
Thank you! Merry Christmas to you and everyone! ❤
Thank you. Listening from Alaska.
Good to have you here
Thank you Merry Christmas and a happy new year
Same to you
Thanks
Thank you so much for this. I don't know how I missed it. Thank you!
Thanks for uploading this Tony! I have been following you for years as Wmnoffaith1, and I've enjoyed our many book chats. I see I'm entering this under my other channel name, but frankly it seems too much bother to switch over this morning. ( It's 5am here). I'm awake because I'm recently out of hospital due to a fall and broken ribs, and an unfortunate recent diagnosis. So, I am so pleased to be able to lay here and listen to your soothing voice, and past Christmases, and not think about a Christmas that I won't be participating in this year.
If you by chance see this, and can find a few minutes to respond, I'd be thrilled to pick your brain. I have people who want me to open a Gofundme, (with which I'm uncomfortable) for my upcoming infusion treatments. I'd rather, though, sell my writing and have them help me in that way. I'm mentioning this to you, due to the times I've heard you say, " Instead of buying me a coffer, buy one of my books". I also know you have Patreons. So, I'm sure you'll understand when I say, I'd rather leave published works behind me, for people to read, than just a memory of me as a Gofundme account. That isn't exactly a legacy, lol.
What I'm wondering is, in the interest of Time constraints, do you think it better to self publish, perhaps through Amazon? Or maybe, set up a domain and website and upload my writing/ books there?
I realize you aren't an advisor, lol. If you maybe could give some tips, or even refer me to a website, book or resource where I could find out what the options are,and how it is done, I would really be very grateful.
I want to try to get on as quickly as I can, and don't have 6 months or a year to toss this around. So, I'm following age old advice: if you need to build a mousetrap, don't take the time to figure out how to build one from scratch. Just find someone who has already built a mousetrap and ask them how they did it. In my case,, I'm not looking for writing assistance or advice, lol,, so don't worry. I'm not going to ask you for writing or editing assistance ( or to adopt me as a fledgling writer). I'm just hoping for some logistical advice on how it's set up.Any information you can point me to would be appreciated.
If you do not have time to respond, I completely understand. It's the holiday season and everyone is very busy, so if I don't hear back from you, thank you for all of your lovely writing and uploads.
It might be funny to you to know it was reading your first ghost story that put this idea in my head. Although he died, his work was still published, and people were reading it many years hence.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! To Tony and all of the listeners on his channel. Cheryl
I recognise and remember you Wmnoffaith. I am familiar with Gofundme (through a colleague actually) and of course I’m familiar with Amazon KDP and also Patreon and Kofi and all of them really. I have also set up websites, and they take a long time to deliver anything.
So…
Patreon is really an ongoing thing that people come into and drop out of. I feel that you have to keep giving the patrons things back in return for their investment.
Websites are very slow and there is no guarantee these days without a tremendous amount of work that anyone will find them.
The Gonfundme would be for a specific purpose - for the infusions and I think that is separate from you leaving your work.
I would do both self-publish on KDP and do an Gofundme.
Forgive me for not knowing, but what format are your books in.
@@ClassicGhost Well, right now they are in hardcopy( as in written, but I can easily get them read in or typed). I actually had a publishing contract in my " previous " life before I got sick to write a medical billing and Coding textbook for F.A. Davis. That was a littledifferentof course, being nonfiction, but I still had to do manuscript proposal and submission, and I actually did get a response instead of a rejection slip, and an offer, so I'm not totally unfamiliar with that process. I'm only explaining this, I guess kind of as proof that I can write.
I understand what you are saying about getting people to your website, but if I have lots of people who want to go to my Gofundme ,do you think it's possible to direct those same people to a website? I know it's very difficult in the regular way, to get into an algorithm and get Google or any search engine to actually list your web page, but I was thinking that the people I write comments and essays for every day, are the ones that want to keep me going, because they say they " benefit from my writing and want to keep me in the world ", which I find absurdly touching. I never expected it, certainly.
I know with Gofundme, you basically give away a percentage to them, they decide when you can have the money, and based on your written or verbal opinions, may opt not to give you your money at all. There was more than 5 million dollars raised for the truckers in Gofundme. Not only did Gofundme freeze the account and not disburse the money, but they actually negatively impacted the checking accounts of the people who donated and many had their accounts frozen. So, that's one of the reasons I'm leary about it as well.
I guess I see setting up the website as a venue where people can go to purchase my books ( collections of essays, and writing, nonfiction, mostly of a Christian nature), and paying through Samsung Pay, Apple pay etc. I'm just looking into it now.
I'm trying to figure out primarily how to format the book. As for the Patrons, I plan on trying to keep giving back as long as I'm here, lol, and then after I'm gone, then they will have what I've written. Just not sure in this almost completely ebook age, the best way to go about it.
Thank you so much Tony, for taking your time to even read this. I'll appreciate any input you can give me. This week will be devoted to getting my writings consolidated and re edited, and in one place. They are online but not in one location which is how so many people have read them. I'm just trying to figure out the best plan. Maybe I should get a good writers app or software, dump everything on there and format it. My real question I guess, would be ," Do I copyright the works myself, or go through a self publishing company like Amazon?" How does Patreon work when someone wants to donate money to commission a work or thank you for a work?
Thank you again for any information you can point me towards, and please forgive me that this is all over the map. As you can probably understand my mind is in 50 places tonight. Luckily, I'll be publishing primarily what I've " already " written. God bless you Tony for all of the hours I've enjoyed on your channel and for reaching out to a fellow writer. 🙏
Thanks Tom
BRING BACK CREEPY CHRISTMAS!!!
Thankyou I love your stories and listen as I work but I struggle with the rain noise
HI, you realise all the stories are also available without rain noise on this channel? I want you to have the choice.
Head full of ghosts
I just got that on Audible
@@ClassicGhost Sooo goood! You’ll love it!
@@ClassicGhost That’s funny, I was actually quoting the beginning of the story lol. But, I’ve also read that book, listened, more than once. Really good
Arrgh the pay by hour just came to Northern Colorado. Though maybe it would help in my zone.
I do t know what this is
My apologies my computer was glitching and put this comment on your page.Which
is this a sweet story I don't see why anyone would fall asleep too horror😱
Would it be too much bother to index these stories?
I have been thinking of that. Not for TH-cam but for myself, then I could post them as a library. As for TH-cam how would I do it?
As for creating the index on TH-cam, I know not. But I have observed many such indexes. Perhaps someone more gifted than myself would assist you. A merry Christmas to you sir and thank you for your efforts
0.29 "Sixpences in the pudding"???
+@davidhorn6008 do t you out silver sixpences in christmas pudding ?
???
@@davidhorn6008 it was a British thing
@@ClassicGhost i remember shillings in the one trifle a year we had 🇬🇧years ago… an old tradition 😊
Is that a Sheffield accent?
I like a Sheffield accent, but mine isn't, no.
Damn this is old!
Like me.
🎁🎁🎁⛄🎄⛄🎄
Que pena no haberlo en Español.
I don’t have the translations
And I wouldn’t be able to read them properly
No te esfuerces, no lo entiendo
😊😊😊
…😊
😊
🧣🧤🧥🧦🥾
Thank you so, so much. these stories were so delightful.
but, who in the hell is the reader? did i miss his name in all the notes? he is absolutely one of the best actors i’ve ever heard reading a book. isn’t there union thing that he must get the credit? do please let me know. thanks :)
i loved these stories. my favorite is the last one. it’s hilarious. poor guy. so glad he got away and that he loved that rambunctious, playful dog 🐕 :) and i bet the minute the little maid left that cottage, she thought that she didn’t know what came over her. a man with such awful habits and a writer who probably wrote horrible, grisly stories. LOL thanks again :) 🫣😯🌷🌱 is
It's me.
Tony Walker. Very good aye.😊
I stored this to watch later….. Later has come 😅
Happy Xmas to you and your lovely other half! You deserve it with bells 🔔 on! Christmas Bells 🤦🏼♀️! Oh yes I did! (Go there)✨
🌹🕊🤍✨🧚♀️✨🤍🕊🌹