Your narrations, your accents and the way you deliver a story are the stuff of legend! Taig O'Kane was a masterpiece!! You love what you do, so just keep doing it!! Thank you, Tony. X
My childhood introduction to Horror was watching the old Amicus anthologies back in the 70's when Appointment with Fear was on ITV. I still love them to this day.
The sound quality is spot on! 👌🏻 Your dedication and the generosity with which you share these beautiful readings truly mean a lot. Thank you for bringing these stories to life and for all the hard work you put in. 🌟
I love your "take apart and then put back together" of the story at the end. It helps me a great deal in processing it. When you mentioned Hades, I realized that was where my unconscious mind was groping. A couple of little things struck me. One was the description of the soldier's grey eyes and her father's grey eyes, which took on more meaning at the end. Also, when the soldier disappears, a nice man with rimless glasses takes his place. I see that as a ray of hope for the future. Once Harold has buggered off (STAY lost, Harold!) and the ghost of the soldier has been exposed, her future is now clear to begin.
I had chores to do today, and I just sat down. Imagine my delight to see another wonderful tale uploaded a few minutes ago! I got a reward for being good to myself 😅 Thank you, Mr Walker 🎉🎉🎉
I really like the story. The end really surprised me, that doesn't happen often. I look forward to your insight about the story and the writing. And yes, I find it very educational. I always learn something. I thank you for that. I dislike click bait, I'm pleased when creators, do not use it.
Enjoyed this. Really reminiscent of my early childhood in London during the late fifties early sixties. My father was a soldier and my mother died when I was a toddler so the underground was a big feature of my life.
I haven't read any of this authors stories. Thanks for bringing this to life in your inimitable way! If only we'd had delicious stories like this to study at school.
November dawns with a "sailor take warning" red sky turned slate gray. With all the autumn outdoor chores ad winterizing done I'm catching up on all I've had to put off listening to. Thanks for all!
Chilling, gripping, disturbing tale with the elegant imagery, word-painting language that I love, enhanced by the vivid, expressive voices of your narration. Enjoy your commentary, which leaves us with much new information to think about. Thanks so much, Tony, For all of your hard work for us. Much appreciated.
Tony, I just want to thank you for all you do! Your channel has become my favorite! You have the best reading voice, I adore your thoughtful commentary at the end as well as your random ramblings, please do not give those up! It's lovely that you play D&D with family and friends. I know you put a tremendous amount of work in your recordings! I listen on my commute to work or when I'm at home working on a puzzle (I'm currently working on "The World of Terry Pratchett" puzzle, it's 1000 pieces and quite challenging!) You made me fall in love with Shirley Jackson. I bought 3 of her novels and 2 short story collections. Thank you, thank you, thank you again for being an amazing human and the best storyteller on TH-cam!!! ❤🎉😊
aww that is really nice. I am so pleased that I introduced you to Shirley Jackson . I haven’t done the jigsaw puzzle for some years. I think I don’t have the patience.
Thank you Tony,I really enjoyed this story...I wasn't expecting such a twist...I thought maybe..she might have fallen in love with the ghost...at least I thought that was where it was headed...but yes loved it..........xxx
A great episode for us…Very happy to see Chetwynd-Hayes here! I love his work, especially as a horror film director myself. And sapphire and steel gets a mention! Great! And my partner, Lauren is the author of the book ‘Deathlines:Walking London’s Horror film History’ which of course, features the underground quite a lot. Thank you for this.
Such an interesting idea, a ghost of a living person. I haven't experienced that before. I wonder if I have left a ghost of myself anywhere? I like the story breakdowns, it helps me understand them more deeply, thank you.
Actually the Underground is an excellent place for a ghost story because although obviously not gothic age it IS actually very old - the oldest in the world. While at the same time being completely part of the modern world. It somehow contains both realities. I think that's why the idea of ghost stations etc fascinates people so much - because the Underground simultaneously contains all eras. I love the talks at the end. Please continue. I do listen to some other storytellers on TH-cam but I find I'm frustrated at the end wanting to hear other opinions on what happened and not getting them.
That is actually what I believe causes a ghost: they don't leave because of some unfinished business. (Unlike "what makes them come back?") And I love ❣️ your discussion of the story at the end! They make the time with you much more entertaining.
Great story. Skillful narration. Who would not want Tony Walker as dungeon master? I do not even play d&d and I know all his assets that make this channel great must add up to an epic dungeon master.
Sorry Tony, I forgot to thank you at the end of my comment - I really enjoyed the story. I also really enjoy the discussions at the end of the stories, including this one. It makes me think about my own ideas more deeply and gives me new ones. Take care and thanks loads.
I think I do it for two reasons one is to understand what I think about the story by writing out and then speaking it out and then also hopefully sparking off other people’s pleasure in understanding the story
This story makes you think.Maybe we all linger in a place mentally that for some reason is significant to us.Not really knowing what powers our thoughts and dreams can have on that place. Loved the story and your chat My westie does the gummy thing sometimes. ❤
I am really looking forward to your Victorian author videos! I like discovering authors I didn’t know about before and hearing more about the well known ones too.
Tony, if you GM Call of Cthulhu, I highly recommend Seth Skorkowsky’s TH-cam channel. It has lots of scenario’s reviews and tips for running them, with links to better maps and handouts. There’s also general advice on running horror and mystery games, and stuff for DnD, Traveller, and other RPGs. Also, I liked this story. It was poignant, makes you think about life choices and how well you really know people.
My first time hearing this author. A very good story, made better by such an excellent narration. I enjoy hearing your afterthoughts on the story and author, and hope you will continue to include these.
Yay you did one by the master of macabre!!! Thank you ! 💚🇬🇧 Love curse of strahd! There are several cthulhu editions, I have one kicking about, but barovia is my ultimate favourite
Mr. Tony, just imagine, in about 50 to 100 years from now, there will be a classic horror and detective loving influencer that'll be giving a breakdown of your stories and the channel started by a RN specializing in mental healthcare. The future fans will be heaping praises upon you, just like you do on those writers of yesteryear. Have never heard this story before, but really enjoyed. Her father was a total j€rk!! Its wild that her father saw his past self. Keep up the hard work!! Still enjoying the stories. Btw, tomorrow is Halloween... a possible 'Halloween Special' is in our very near future?? Like tomorrow...
Thank you for another wonderful story and an equally wonderful commentary. I so enjoy your work and I was wondering if you were going to be doing only ghost stories and some detective stories because I haven’t seen anything new on your Classic Stories channel and I miss not being able to enjoy them as well. Thank you so much for all the stories and commentaries and I hope you never get a cold or a sore throat.
Most people I knew growing up would know about The Hellfire Club,and been there at some stage, also I heard of a lot of scary stuff happening there. There was one incident that happened that was terrifying and the people involved never went there again as far as I know.
Harold's a true mama's boy, he doesn't have enough left to love her properly, it's all gone to mum. He is too enmeshed, spoiled for real feeling the way the father was spoiled by the wife leaving. Lovely twist on the end, wonder if the father's ghost showed to her because that version of him was holding it all in and somehow wanted her to know the truth. Undergrounds and subways always have a spooky feeling in my opinion, have ridden on many.
I'd like to comment on that warning in the underground. I believe it wasn't just "red herring", on the contrary, it showed that there were many such stories around, and that the best way of dealing with them was not to notice them - thus you could live your life. These "ghosts" are like scars, and they start aching when you touch them. And like scars these things have no moral resolution - just pain for all the involved.
Man!! If, somehow, you didn't get your fourth player for your campaign, please let me know. I doubt streaming all the way from the US would be super-stable, and I can think of lots of reasons why others (e.g. Patreon members or TH-cam joiners) would be better choices, but I've been looking for a good game of Call of Cthulhu or even another good DnD game, and I'd love to join one run by one of my favorite narrators and authors, so please shout at me if you think a random weird fiction fan / rpg geek from the US would make a good player in the game you decide to run. Also, great reading and analysis as usual! These sorts of "fractured" ghosts are especially fascinating. If you think of any given person's complex behavior as the result of a "committee" of more simplistic internal archetypes crumpled into his skull -- a bundle of two-dimensional snapshots that, folded together, approximate a fully three-dimensional personality -- then it's not too hard to imagine one or two of these snapshots peeling off during some emotionally tempestuous episode and blowing away on its own, to be seen again only when stirred by the next gust. I love the idea of so many of them getting trapped in the tunnels and drawn flitting behind the subway trains. It's a fertile idea... you could imagine them potentially combining again, forming partial, new entities from all the trapped bits lost by all the other hearts that were broken in the underground.
If the father was 20 ish in WWII ('40-'45) with an infant daughter who is now 45 then that does date the whole thing to the 1980s, but I agree the whole ethos does feel earlier. 'From Beyond the Grave' is my favorite of the anthology films.
I enjoyed this.. nice twist on the traditional unfinished ghost business theme. (Although Harold's about face at the end was a bit jarring, and not really believable that such a passive person would abruptly whiplash-react like that - but maybe that's just me.
I completely believed it. Harold didn't seem passive to me--he sounded self-absorbed. He never asked the main character about herself or how her day was, and he simply assumed that she would go along with whatever he wanted. It's people like that who get angry when others refuse to follow their presumptions.
Great story, I was very surprised to find a Chetwynd Hayes story that's so grim and murderous. Love the depiction of the underground crowds as some kind of creature. I also loved your interpretation at the end. It made me dream that I murdered someone, so I listened to it again to make sure it was the story influencing me and not something I'd actually done!
It's a good story, but the attitudes of the characters (even the protagonist) seem totally out of place for the 1980's. It sounds more like something from the 1800's.
I always enjoy the discussion and the disparate disciplines you bring to it. You don't do click bait content so why would you do click bait titles, which will bring viewers who expect click bait content? Personally I have no faith in consultants. Just do what you do; it works.
One thing confused me. In the beginning Laura imaines the "dragon" of a train's conductors would yell; "Mind the claws!" But, Isn't the usual expression in Britan, "mind the gap!"? I know thats picking nits, but, it just stood out funnily to me. I enjoyed your rendition very much. Not so sure about the story though.
I think the best way to look at the actions and feelings of other people going through our short existence of what we perceive as reality is to remind ourselves to think honestly to ourselves what would we do if we were in that other persons shoes. However as we all are imperfect being human we sometimes forget to. I would consider the underground to be 'liminal spaces '. The world between two worlds. Or some sort of pocket universe. Sorry just really got into what alot of people call 'The Backrooms ' this year 😊
One of the scariest things that has ever happened to me was as a young adult during a cross country drive. I suddenly realized I was about to enter an undersea highway tunnel with no opportunity to turn around. I still sweat even thinking about it. 😮💀💀😂
What an interesting story, took a turn I didn't expect which I love in a story. The story of your dogs reminds me of our cat. He gets peckish around 3am he has kibbles. But he really wants the wet food. I'm not sure if he's dreamed of it which is why he's so insistent. But he won't take no for an answer. I'm disabled it's my husband that does the feeding. But my husband sleeps like the dead. So our little guy will come to me and gently nibble on my hands to say he's hungry. Because he knows I'm a light sleeper and I can wake up "daddy". So every night around 3 I'm nudging my husband. "honey the cat wants feeding. Honey? Honey?" And the poor man stumbles to the kitchen. Then our little Mishtu comes in after eating and snuggles down with him purring his head off. Both are asleep in minutes. I look for one of your stories to listen to because I'll be up for at least an hour before falling back to sleep. Funny how rituals just sort of happen. No doubt years from now when our cat is in cat heaven I will still wake at three thinking he needs to be fed. No cat but it will still be time for a story.
The story is set in the 1970s, but bowler hats were long out of fashion by then. Was the man who delivered the warning another ghost, perhaps of the dead variety?
I don’t think Harold loved her at all - all that stuff about the money for the taxi! Harold isn’t a wicked man but nor is he kind or loving. I didn’t think the dad was a monster but there was that remark about him driving her suitors away when she was young. He mistrusted young love - all his young love was left in the underground with his dead wife. I thought it was very sad thinking what the dad could have been if he’d held onto his capacity for love despite the tragedy of the murder. I thought Laura seemed quite self sufficient because she’d had to be. I feel that freed from Harold and her father it might have been possible for her to blossom in some ways - not necessarily romantically, but not totally ruling it out.
A great narration but I am critical of this story because: 1. I don't really like nor can relate to any of the characters (the protagonist seems dull) 2. It was unrealistic to me on how the protag reacted to seeing a ghost; actually there were a handful of things that just instinctually gave off the vibe of unrealistic emotions/fake dialogue. Basically what I am saying is, the story was woven well given the ending but I found the characters to be too one dimensional. Thanks for the story
Awesome story, and I understand the nuance, but let's remember - that wasn't love. That was jealous murder. He's not a 'Good Guy' in any way. He was a dick and his punishment is to be seen for what he is by his daughter.
Gotta love a content creator who actually cares about his listeners. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication. Greatly appreciated.
Your narrations, your accents and the way you deliver a story are the stuff of legend! Taig O'Kane was a masterpiece!! You love what you do, so just keep doing it!! Thank you, Tony. X
My childhood introduction to Horror was watching the old Amicus anthologies back in the 70's when Appointment with Fear was on ITV. I still love them to this day.
The sound quality is spot on! 👌🏻 Your dedication and the generosity with which you share these beautiful readings truly mean a lot. Thank you for bringing these stories to life and for all the hard work you put in. 🌟
I agree about the sound! I hate when I am tempted by a story only to find I can't hear it.
I love your "take apart and then put back together" of the story at the end. It helps me a great deal in processing it. When you mentioned Hades, I realized that was where my unconscious mind was groping. A couple of little things struck me. One was the description of the soldier's grey eyes and her father's grey eyes, which took on more meaning at the end. Also, when the soldier disappears, a nice man with rimless glasses takes his place. I see that as a ray of hope for the future. Once Harold has buggered off (STAY lost, Harold!) and the ghost of the soldier has been exposed, her future is now clear to begin.
I couldn't imagine a worse fate than 40 years with Harold.
Yes, a lovely subtle little thing about the eyes
I had chores to do today, and I just sat down. Imagine my delight to see another wonderful tale uploaded a few minutes ago! I got a reward for being good to myself 😅 Thank you, Mr Walker 🎉🎉🎉
I really like the story. The end really surprised me, that doesn't happen often. I look forward to your insight about the story and the writing. And yes, I find it very educational. I always learn something. I thank you for that. I dislike click bait, I'm pleased when creators, do not use it.
I enjoy the discussion of the stories very much, it adds a lot to the enjoyment. Thanks!
Beautifully read as always, I was totally convinced it was set in the 1960's so was shocked to find it set in the 1980's
Same, I thought it was set in the 1960s too.
I find your commentaries very educational ❤❤😊😊🎉🎉
What an intriguing story! I felt that the specter of 40 years with Harold was the real horror 😂
Description is intriguing! Thanks very much, Tony. I'm looking forward to it tonight.
Enjoyed this. Really reminiscent of my early childhood in London during the late fifties early sixties. My father was a soldier and my mother died when I was a toddler so the underground was a big feature of my life.
I haven't read any of this authors stories. Thanks for bringing this to life in your inimitable way! If only we'd had delicious stories like this to study at school.
November dawns with a "sailor take warning" red sky turned slate gray. With all the autumn outdoor chores ad winterizing done I'm catching up on all I've had to put off listening to. Thanks for all!
Loved this. I love when the ending surprises me and this one did.
Chilling, gripping, disturbing tale with the elegant imagery, word-painting language that I love, enhanced by the vivid, expressive voices of your narration. Enjoy your commentary, which leaves us with much new information to think about. Thanks so much, Tony, For all of your hard work for us. Much appreciated.
Tony, I just want to thank you for all you do! Your channel has become my favorite! You have the best reading voice, I adore your thoughtful commentary at the end as well as your random ramblings, please do not give those up! It's lovely that you play D&D with family and friends. I know you put a tremendous amount of work in your recordings! I listen on my commute to work or when I'm at home working on a puzzle (I'm currently working on "The World of Terry Pratchett" puzzle, it's 1000 pieces and quite challenging!) You made me fall in love with Shirley Jackson. I bought 3 of her novels and 2 short story collections. Thank you, thank you, thank you again for being an amazing human and the best storyteller on TH-cam!!! ❤🎉😊
aww that is really nice.
I am so pleased that I introduced you to Shirley Jackson . I haven’t done the jigsaw puzzle for some years. I think I don’t have the patience.
Can't wait to hear this one.✨️💛👻✨️
This is the first story that’s made me cry 😭 thank you for sharing!
Thank you Tony,I really enjoyed this story...I wasn't expecting such a twist...I thought maybe..she might have fallen in love with the ghost...at least I thought that was where it was headed...but yes loved it..........xxx
A great episode for us…Very happy to see Chetwynd-Hayes here! I love his work, especially as a horror film director myself. And sapphire and steel gets a mention! Great! And my partner, Lauren is the author of the book ‘Deathlines:Walking London’s Horror film History’ which of course, features the underground quite a lot. Thank you for this.
Thank u for not using a.i narration. Trust me, us audiobook enthusiasts appreciate it. Keep up the good work.
Such a cool story an enthralling listen, thank you.
Thank you sir 😊❤
I enjoyed it.
I love hearing about your dogs. It really makes me smile 😊
O Tony I could listen to you all day. Stay you.
I struggle to be anyone else.
Brilliant! Loved it - thank YOU!
Such an interesting idea, a ghost of a living person. I haven't experienced that before. I wonder if I have left a ghost of myself anywhere?
I like the story breakdowns, it helps me understand them more deeply, thank you.
I used to lov the Armada ghost and horror books! Thanks for this one, such a great story. And well read of course!
Chetwynd-Hayes...been a while since I read one of his.
Love this ❤ Excellent narration and bonus points for mentioning Sapphire and Steel.
Great story and very well thought out commentary. Thank you!
Actually the Underground is an excellent place for a ghost story because although obviously not gothic age it IS actually very old - the oldest in the world. While at the same time being completely part of the modern world. It somehow contains both realities. I think that's why the idea of ghost stations etc fascinates people so much - because the Underground simultaneously contains all eras.
I love the talks at the end. Please continue.
I do listen to some other storytellers on TH-cam but I find I'm frustrated at the end wanting to hear other opinions on what happened and not getting them.
You are bloody good at narrating. This author is also excellent. Many thanks
Thank you so very much
That is actually what I believe causes a ghost: they don't leave because of some unfinished business. (Unlike "what makes them come back?")
And I love ❣️ your discussion of the story at the end! They make the time with you much more entertaining.
Thanks for the great - slightly gnostic - story!
I much prefer the stories you narrate when you discuss them at the end. Thanks.
Great story. Skillful narration. Who would not want Tony Walker as dungeon master? I do not even play d&d and I know all his assets that make this channel great must add up to an epic dungeon master.
Loved this one, Tony, and was completely taken in by the twist! Thank you!
Excellent story, Tony! Thank you for sharing it. The ending totally tripped me up.
Amazing narration and really interesting commentary. Thank you!
Thanks a lot
And this comment may be late but a big YES on the Mythos idea for D&D!
Sorry Tony, I forgot to thank you at the end of my comment - I really enjoyed the story. I also really enjoy the discussions at the end of the stories, including this one. It makes me think about my own ideas more deeply and gives me new ones. Take care and thanks loads.
I think I do it for two reasons one is to understand what I think about the story by writing out and then speaking it out and then also hopefully sparking off other people’s pleasure in understanding the story
@@ClassicGhost well it’s certainly much appreciated!
This story makes you think.Maybe we all linger in a place mentally that for some reason is significant to us.Not really knowing what powers our thoughts and dreams can have on that place.
Loved the story and your chat
My westie does the gummy thing sometimes. ❤
I loved this story- and thanks for turning me onto this author ❤
I loved your story. I would call it horror, though, because it wasn't horrible! Thank you for your work.
I am really looking forward to your Victorian author videos! I like discovering authors I didn’t know about before and hearing more about the well known ones too.
His voice is my fave❤
Tony, if you GM Call of Cthulhu, I highly recommend Seth Skorkowsky’s TH-cam channel. It has lots of scenario’s reviews and tips for running them, with links to better maps and handouts. There’s also general advice on running horror and mystery games, and stuff for DnD, Traveller, and other RPGs.
Also, I liked this story. It was poignant, makes you think about life choices and how well you really know people.
İ really love the part at the end where you tell us about the story
Oh and I love to hear you talk about the story and author, it is educational 😊
My first time hearing this author. A very good story, made better by such an excellent narration. I enjoy hearing your afterthoughts on the story and author, and hope you will continue to include these.
What a cool story---I thought it was brilliantly written. Loved it. I always enjoy your end of story rambles, Tony.
Yay you did one by the master of macabre!!! Thank you ! 💚🇬🇧
Love curse of strahd! There are several cthulhu editions, I have one kicking about, but barovia is my ultimate favourite
Mr. Tony, just imagine, in about 50 to 100 years from now, there will be a classic horror and detective loving influencer that'll be giving a breakdown of your stories and the channel started by a RN specializing in mental healthcare. The future fans will be heaping praises upon you, just like you do on those writers of yesteryear.
Have never heard this story before, but really enjoyed. Her father was a total j€rk!! Its wild that her father saw his past self.
Keep up the hard work!! Still enjoying the stories.
Btw, tomorrow is Halloween... a possible 'Halloween Special' is in our very near future?? Like tomorrow...
Quite a good story. I enjoyed it and most especially your talk afterwards.
Keep doing the commentary and dog updates!
Will do!
great story and great narration. a ridiculous tom waits' song; UNDERGROUND...
Educational!? Talk about a twist ending! Ooh, I shall have to report this! But a wonderful, subtle ghost story, Cheers😊
I missed your uploads.
oh no! Glad you're here now though
Thank you for another wonderful story and an equally wonderful commentary. I so enjoy your work and I was wondering if you were going to be doing only ghost stories and some detective stories because I haven’t seen anything new on your Classic Stories channel and I miss not being able to enjoy them as well. Thank you so much for all the stories and commentaries and I hope you never get a cold or a sore throat.
Wonderful!
Brill,thankyou,and v good commentary.
Fantastic
Ravenloft D&D campaign setting is pretty top notch imo...have fun and thanks Tony.
I'm loving it.
Loved it - and the twist! 😂
I'm quite a fan of Chetwynd-Hayes. His stories have one foot in the real world and one somewhere else........
A favorite of mine
Most people I knew growing up would know about The Hellfire Club,and been there at some stage, also I heard of a lot of scary stuff happening there. There was one incident that happened that was terrifying and the people involved never went there again as far as I know.
Relatable.
Harold's a true mama's boy, he doesn't have enough left to love her properly, it's all gone to mum. He is too enmeshed, spoiled for real feeling the way the father was spoiled by the wife leaving. Lovely twist on the end, wonder if the father's ghost showed to her because that version of him was holding it all in and somehow wanted her to know the truth. Undergrounds and subways always have a spooky feeling in my opinion, have ridden on many.
I'd like to comment on that warning in the underground. I believe it wasn't just "red herring", on the contrary, it showed that there were many such stories around, and that the best way of dealing with them was not to notice them - thus you could live your life. These "ghosts" are like scars, and they start aching when you touch them. And like scars these things have no moral resolution - just pain for all the involved.
Good point. Very interesting.
Man!! If, somehow, you didn't get your fourth player for your campaign, please let me know. I doubt streaming all the way from the US would be super-stable, and I can think of lots of reasons why others (e.g. Patreon members or TH-cam joiners) would be better choices, but I've been looking for a good game of Call of Cthulhu or even another good DnD game, and I'd love to join one run by one of my favorite narrators and authors, so please shout at me if you think a random weird fiction fan / rpg geek from the US would make a good player in the game you decide to run.
Also, great reading and analysis as usual! These sorts of "fractured" ghosts are especially fascinating. If you think of any given person's complex behavior as the result of a "committee" of more simplistic internal archetypes crumpled into his skull -- a bundle of two-dimensional snapshots that, folded together, approximate a fully three-dimensional personality -- then it's not too hard to imagine one or two of these snapshots peeling off during some emotionally tempestuous episode and blowing away on its own, to be seen again only when stirred by the next gust. I love the idea of so many of them getting trapped in the tunnels and drawn flitting behind the subway trains. It's a fertile idea... you could imagine them potentially combining again, forming partial, new entities from all the trapped bits lost by all the other hearts that were broken in the underground.
We're still doing Strahd in D&D but email me at classicghostpodcast@gmail.com and I'll get back to you if we do CoC
If the father was 20 ish in WWII ('40-'45) with an infant daughter who is now 45 then that does date the whole thing to the 1980s, but I agree the whole ethos does feel earlier.
'From Beyond the Grave' is my favorite of the anthology films.
Good stiry
Hi - I just subscribed; how do I download the ghost story bundle? Thanks!
Didn’t see that coming.
I enjoyed this.. nice twist on the traditional unfinished ghost business theme. (Although Harold's about face at the end was a bit jarring, and not really believable that such a passive person would abruptly whiplash-react like that - but maybe that's just me.
I completely believed it. Harold didn't seem passive to me--he sounded self-absorbed. He never asked the main character about herself or how her day was, and he simply assumed that she would go along with whatever he wanted. It's people like that who get angry when others refuse to follow their presumptions.
Great story, I was very surprised to find a Chetwynd Hayes story that's so grim and murderous. Love the depiction of the underground crowds as some kind of creature. I also loved your interpretation at the end. It made me dream that I murdered someone, so I listened to it again to make sure it was the story influencing me and not something I'd actually done!
It's a good story, but the attitudes of the characters (even the protagonist) seem totally out of place for the 1980's. It sounds more like something from the 1800's.
I always enjoy the discussion and the disparate disciplines you bring to it. You don't do click bait content so why would you do click bait titles, which will bring viewers who expect click bait content? Personally I have no faith in consultants. Just do what you do; it works.
David McCullum was the Sapphire & Steel actor.
One thing confused me. In the beginning Laura imaines the "dragon" of a train's conductors would yell; "Mind the claws!" But, Isn't the usual expression in Britan, "mind the gap!"? I know thats picking nits, but, it just stood out funnily to me.
I enjoyed your rendition very much. Not so sure about the story though.
I think the best way to look at the actions and feelings of other people going through our short existence of what we perceive as reality is to remind ourselves to think honestly to ourselves what would we do if we were in that other persons shoes. However as we all are imperfect being human we sometimes forget to. I would consider the underground to be 'liminal spaces '. The world between two worlds. Or some sort of pocket universe. Sorry just really got into what alot of people call 'The Backrooms ' this year 😊
One of the scariest things that has ever happened to me was as a young adult during a cross country drive. I suddenly realized I was about to enter an undersea highway tunnel with no opportunity to turn around. I still sweat even thinking about it. 😮💀💀😂
That old trapped feeling indeed
It is quite difficult to find books by R Chetwyn Haynes.
My dnd group just did Curse of Strad :D I wanna play! How do I join??
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What an interesting story, took a turn I didn't expect which I love in a story.
The story of your dogs reminds me of our cat. He gets peckish around 3am he has kibbles. But he really wants the wet food. I'm not sure if he's dreamed of it which is why he's so insistent. But he won't take no for an answer. I'm disabled it's my husband that does the feeding. But my husband sleeps like the dead. So our little guy will come to me and gently nibble on my hands to say he's hungry. Because he knows I'm a light sleeper and I can wake up "daddy". So every night around 3 I'm nudging my husband. "honey the cat wants feeding. Honey? Honey?"
And the poor man stumbles to the kitchen.
Then our little Mishtu comes in after eating and snuggles down with him purring his head off. Both are asleep in minutes. I look for one of your stories to listen to because I'll be up for at least an hour before falling back to sleep.
Funny how rituals just sort of happen. No doubt years from now when our cat is in cat heaven I will still wake at three thinking he needs to be fed. No cat but it will still be time for a story.
They are very clever. Cleverer than most people give them credit for
The story is set in the 1970s, but bowler hats were long out of fashion by then. Was the man who delivered the warning another ghost, perhaps of the dead variety?
Chetwynd-Hayes seems to have had some good insight into the psyche of middle-aged women. I’m just so relieved that she didn’t marry Harold!
I think the word you're looking for, Tony, for Harold is "prosy."
I don't know what that means in this context. Prosy for me is a style of writing I suppose. What does it mean to you?
@@ClassicGhost "Prosy" is used in Regency novels, such as Jane Austen or Georgette Heyer, to describe a person who is boring and wordy.
i didn’t know that
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Why is the video resolution so very low (360p) ? Maybe because the video is pretty long?
it’s 480 i think . Just because it makes the file a lot smaller and people tell me they don’t care about the visuals :)
Should have a creepyness rating 1-10
Really! I dont think Harold loved her at all!
I don’t think Harold loved her at all - all that stuff about the money for the taxi! Harold isn’t a wicked man but nor is he kind or loving.
I didn’t think the dad was a monster but there was that remark about him driving her suitors away when she was young. He mistrusted young love - all his young love was left in the underground with his dead wife.
I thought it was very sad thinking what the dad could have been if he’d held onto his capacity for love despite the tragedy of the murder.
I thought Laura seemed quite self sufficient because she’d had to be. I feel that freed from Harold and her father it might have been possible for her to blossom in some ways - not necessarily romantically, but not totally ruling it out.
A great narration but I am critical of this story because: 1. I don't really like nor can relate to any of the characters (the protagonist seems dull)
2. It was unrealistic to me on how the protag reacted to seeing a ghost; actually there were a handful of things that just instinctually gave off the vibe of unrealistic emotions/fake dialogue.
Basically what I am saying is, the story was woven well given the ending but I found the characters to be too one dimensional. Thanks for the story
Awesome story, and I understand the nuance, but let's remember - that wasn't love. That was jealous murder. He's not a 'Good Guy' in any way. He was a dick and his punishment is to be seen for what he is by his daughter.