Brilliantly read . Too many audio book readers rush too much and don't give us time to savour the language and relax into the story. This was wonderfully done.
This is my favorite of Doyle's short stories. The tension during the cave scene feels like something out of Jurassic Park. He really was one of the greatest authors of his day.
I agree this is one of my favorites. The man was so talented so skilled and so prolific that for an everyday person like me, a mother, and office worker, although naturally talented in design and music and with many other passive interests.... In other words, a very average person... Is absolutely stunning to me. Anyone extremely prolifically creative will evoke the same response but the guy was also a medical doctor, we can't forget that! Sir Arthur died in 1930, long before we were born, but aren't we so fortunate that so many things are preserved, and of course, they are absolutely timeless.
I've been working nights (Japanese company) for the past 3 months and your smooth voice gets me to sleep better than anything. I must have listened to at least 50 your narrations by now. Incredible voice and fantastic voice-acting. You've really helped my life in a positive way. Thank you very much Greg. I wish I could read like you for my students!
My favorite Channel. You’ve reached legendary status in my circle of friends. When one might ask my schedule I would reply “I’m about to embark on The Adventure of....The Dreaded Dentist Visit” etc.
This is addressed to mr. Wagland if I can possibly ever hope that he'll read this. Sir I love listening and watching Jeremy Brett and Edward hardwicke on all the Sherlock Holmes series but I have to tell you that I love listening to you talk when you talk in your audiobooks for magpie. I think you are very very special with your talent in being able to switch to every single dialect and accent in an absolute moment. You have a superb speaking voice and I enjoyed to know and all your stories whether they be Sherlock Holmes Conan Doyle stories or whatever. You sir, are superb. I have said this a few times on other sites dealing with Sherlock Holmes and Jeremy Brett because I adore him as an actor, even if he is no longer with us. But you sir, have an impeccable voice for reading and narrating stories. I wish more people in the world today could talk and sound like you do. Thank you for many enjoyable hours.
This strange tale has fascinated my imagination for years now like the shadow of a cloud passing slowly past a large hill or knoll amorphic and chilling. Sometimes I wish I had never read and reread it as a youth. It still frightens me. This reading is marvelous, penetrating, even so well done, it is dangerous. To refer to it as "a tale of crypto-zoology " as said in the description above gives far too mundane and too literal a vision. There are things which lurk almost invisibly in the back of one's psyche, perhaps individually and collectively, which the microscope of scientific materialism does not comprehend. Consider O Horatio, Hamlet.
Blue John is a mineral called fluorite and you can read about it if you google it. Wikipedia has a long and very detailed piece on Blue John with lots of images. Besides Derbyshire, it’s also found in Belgium, Mexico, Illinois and China. Very interesting to read about
How very atmospheric and gripping in the cave scenes. Definitely one of those stories to listen to in daylight if one is a lilly livered listener like me. Thank you for the wonderful narration that brings the story so much to life for us to enjoy. 😊
Wonderful rendition. And of a wonderfully-paced tale: so little actually happens, if you think on it; it just relies on an immaculate narrative. Bravissimo, to our actor and author in equal measure.
This story reminds me of H P Lovecraft's story 'The Beast in the Cave' and I did wonder if there had been a bit of cross-pollination going on. But although HPL wrote his story in 1905, it was not published anywhere until 1918, eight years after Doyle wrote this. So I guess it's just a case of great minds thinking alike! Thanks for this great reading Greg.
I had never heard of Blue John before listening to this story,, and it's been fun to read about this mineral and see photos of how it's been crafted into many beautiful objects.
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio I just might :) it's been a while since I've taken a holiday, and I love climbing. I'll let you know if we find any beasties along the way!
SACD authored so many Holmes and Watson stories one forgets he did THE LOST WORLD as well...Great reading as we sit around the campfire/ fireplace and listen to you...
Yes, Mr. Wagland, you have helped me keep my sanity during these wretched, chaotic times. You are phenomenal, and I will be joining. I am interested in the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the brains behind these incredible, fascinating stories and characters. Do you have a narrative on his life? Again, my most sincere thanks for sharing your creative gift and talent!
I've enjoyed listening to this piece quite a few times. I had no idea what Blue John referred to until just now. Apparently it's a mineral found in the local area and absolutely nowhere else. So it's very rare.It is a deep blue translucent or opaque stone extremely beautiful and treasured by royalty and the rich and powerful. I don't remember it being mentioned in the story so I'm back to listen again more carefully this time. Now I'm looking forward to bedtime and The Blue John Gap. Cheers Greg.
poor iron age sloth. scared as he was. (btw, it is now known that herbivores do sometimes crave animal or insect protein. so even the huge sloths might have needed a sheep or two :) 🌿🐁 i’ve been binging on your readings! much fun. thanks 😊 🌷🌼
“The Terror of the Blue Gap” was first published in Strand Magazine in 1910. The creature living underground in darkness very likely was the inspiration for Tolkien’s Gollum.
Imagine, if you will, if lovecraft and doyle ever co wrote! What a strange and horrific story they would tell! This story, and the Horrir of the Heights, are excellent examples fear of the unknown, which is basically the specialty of lovecraft.
Great taste. This and Horror of the heights are two of my favourites. Both outstanding tales and very similar in their compositions. Both telling of a man going on a solitary journey seeking truth and facing danger alone. Great stuff.
I was thinking of recording The Tragedy of the Korosko which someone recommended I read recently. Am about half way through it and it's great. Very different but full of menace and atmos. So could do that certainly at some point. Don't know the other one you mention. Will have a look. Cheers.
Thanks. They're both fine tales. The Lost Special was collected in Round the Fire and hints at Holmes here and there. You do a fine job voice acting with this stuff. Cheers!
Does the author say "he died of thesis" ? Do you know what that means? I googled it and could only find the definition of "thesis" like an essay. Thanks
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio A Greek word meaning "a dwindling or wasting away." Pronounced TIE-sis. Phthisis is an archaic name for tuberculosis. --fun to learn a new medical word ty!
I've a bone to pick with ACD. In his rush to get the story out he often leaves loose ends, and this one at least needs an epilogue. For starters I want to know where sheep losses are at!
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio : It all looks innocent enough at the outset... what's a few sheep? Grendel started with sheep I believe, but he didn't stop there!
I have noted with interest that it seems only men and women who are very wealthy can afford to faint, or swoon, after witnessing something traumatic, and perhaps spend three weeks in bed with "brain fever" before going back to their world travels, their shooting or fishing holidays. What if a poor coal miner with a sick wife and three children should witness a cave-in that takes the life of his friend. Can he faint, and then stay in hospital for a week or more? Hell no! They would tell him, "Ay, mate, git up off your azz and get back to your job if you want the bairns to eat this week!" Were the English gentry really that tender, that they faint at the sight of a dog being run over by a cab?
I doubt many coal miners or their families had time to sit in the drawing room by a raging fire sipping port and smoking cigars whilst perusing the Strand magazine. Mum & Dad were busy coughing themselves to death from coal dust or tuberculosis, while the kids too young to go down pit hobbled on their rickets trying not to catch polio.
more elaborate victorian description than adventure - i wonder if Doyle was paid by the word - very little originality in this story even at Doyle's time I'm sure - as with many authors - this is just one of many stories that fall between the few outstanding ones produced
To each their own I suppose! I thought it was great and one of his best stories. But I’m into the fantastic as much as crime drama so it’s an easy “gap” to bridge 😉
The narrator .. could make the Sermon on the Mount read like a bus timetable .. Shocking .. almost as bad as librevox ..at least they admit to being amateurs ..
Brilliantly read . Too many audio book readers rush too much and don't give us time to savour the language and relax into the story. This was wonderfully done.
Bravo, Greg Wagland! Bravo!! Your narrations are superb!
This is my favorite of Doyle's short stories. The tension during the cave scene feels like something out of Jurassic Park. He really was one of the greatest authors of his day.
I agree this is one of my favorites. The man was so talented so skilled and so prolific that for an everyday person like me, a mother, and office worker, although naturally talented in design and music and with many other passive interests.... In other words, a very average person... Is absolutely stunning to me. Anyone extremely prolifically creative will evoke the same response but the guy was also a medical doctor, we can't forget that!
Sir Arthur died in 1930, long before we were born, but aren't we so fortunate that so many things are preserved, and of course, they are absolutely timeless.
I've been working nights (Japanese company) for the past 3 months and your smooth voice gets me to sleep better than anything. I must have listened to at least 50 your narrations by now. Incredible voice and fantastic voice-acting. You've really helped my life in a positive way. Thank you very much Greg. I wish I could read like you for my students!
LOL, By that, I hope that you mean that Greg's voice helps you to relax, not that it bores you to sleep
Belated reply. Thank you Vincent. Appreciated!!!
i’m on a Greg Wagland binge :) listening to older ones and finding a few new ones - Yea! thanks so much. . . ✨🌷
Definitely one of the best I've heard👏👏👏
My favorite Channel. You’ve reached legendary status in my circle of friends. When one might ask my schedule I would reply “I’m about to embark on The Adventure of....The Dreaded Dentist Visit” etc.
YES...ONCE MAYBE TWICE A YEAR...TOP ONE THANK YOU
MISTER ✨️
Cheers Bob
BRILLIANT SIR ARTHUR 💎
I love your voice. Thank you for this .
Thanks for listening and thank you for your comment!
Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle was a magnificent story teller.
Thank you so much for these lovely readings
Pleasure, Tiggy!
This is addressed to mr. Wagland if I can possibly ever hope that he'll read this. Sir I love listening and watching Jeremy Brett and Edward hardwicke on all the Sherlock Holmes series but I have to tell you that I love listening to you talk when you talk in your audiobooks for magpie. I think you are very very special with your talent in being able to switch to every single dialect and accent in an absolute moment. You have a superb speaking voice and I enjoyed to know and all your stories whether they be Sherlock Holmes Conan Doyle stories or whatever. You sir, are superb. I have said this a few times on other sites dealing with Sherlock Holmes and Jeremy Brett because I adore him as an actor, even if he is no longer with us. But you sir, have an impeccable voice for reading and narrating stories. I wish more people in the world today could talk and sound like you do. Thank you for many enjoyable hours.
The great Sherlock Holmes voices - Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, and Greg Wagland.
Well said, Sir!
This strange tale has fascinated my imagination for years now like the shadow of a cloud passing slowly past a large hill or knoll amorphic and chilling. Sometimes I wish I had never read and reread it as a youth. It still frightens me.
This reading is marvelous, penetrating, even so well done, it is dangerous.
To refer to it as "a tale of crypto-zoology " as said in the description above gives far too mundane and too literal a vision. There are things which lurk almost invisibly in the back of one's psyche, perhaps individually and collectively, which the microscope of scientific materialism does not comprehend. Consider O Horatio, Hamlet.
You could be right. In the very corner of our eyes there is a shadow perhaps. Thank you for your kind words about my reading. Appreciated.
Blue John is a mineral called fluorite and you can read about it if you google it. Wikipedia has a long and very detailed piece on Blue John with lots of images. Besides Derbyshire, it’s also found in Belgium, Mexico, Illinois and China. Very interesting to read about
How very atmospheric and gripping in the cave scenes. Definitely one of those stories to listen to in daylight if one is a lilly livered listener like me. Thank you for the wonderful narration that brings the story so much to life for us to enjoy. 😊
What a brilliant choice of narrator !! 💜 Beautiful voice !!😘 🎇 👏👏👏👏
Bigfoot? An excellent story narrated with dramatic precision.
Absolutely sir Arthur Conan Doyle! Thanks for posting
Thanks Greg Wagland 🎉😂😊
Wonderful rendition. And of a wonderfully-paced tale: so little actually happens, if you think on it; it just relies on an immaculate narrative. Bravissimo, to our actor and author in equal measure.
Ta, Lemma. It's a well crafted tale.
This story reminds me of H P Lovecraft's story 'The Beast in the Cave' and I did wonder if there had been a bit of cross-pollination going on. But although HPL wrote his story in 1905, it was not published anywhere until 1918, eight years after Doyle wrote this. So I guess it's just a case of great minds thinking alike! Thanks for this great reading Greg.
Very, very. curious. I certainly would not have ventured into that cave. His effort for scientific approach was rather good. Thank you Mr. Wagland!
I had never heard of Blue John before listening to this story,, and it's been fun to read about this mineral and see photos of how it's been crafted into many beautiful objects.
Many thanks for sharing this wonderful story!
Each one a gem. Many I’ve read previously, some a number of times. Others will be for the first time, but not, I hope, the last.
Excellent reading - thank you
Wonderful stuff Mr. Wagland. Surely one of your best readings. Thanks!
Fie on you Mr Wagland! I have a whole house to clean and a class to attend, and now all I want to do is look for Roman caves. :)
Why not! Treat yourself!
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio I just might :) it's been a while since I've taken a holiday, and I love climbing. I'll let you know if we find any beasties along the way!
Right up my alley. Thanks Greg.
Brilliant narration. Thank you.
Appreciated pes
Thank you Greg 😊
SACD authored so many Holmes and Watson stories one forgets he did THE LOST WORLD as well...Great reading as we sit around the campfire/ fireplace and listen to you...
Yes, Mr. Wagland, you have helped me keep my sanity during these wretched, chaotic times. You are phenomenal, and I will be joining. I am interested in the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the brains behind these incredible, fascinating stories and characters. Do you have a narrative on his life? Again, my most sincere thanks for sharing your creative gift and talent!
Thank you!!! You do have a gift, thank you for taking time to share it.
You are so welcome SF
Ah, the Gregg Wayland voice is exquisite. No one can surpass his pronunciation of, for example, "idee fixe.". Fabulous.
I've enjoyed listening to this piece quite a few times. I had no idea what Blue John referred to until just now. Apparently it's a mineral found in the local area and absolutely nowhere else. So it's very rare.It is a deep blue translucent or opaque stone extremely beautiful and treasured by royalty and the rich and powerful.
I don't remember it being mentioned in the story so I'm back to listen again more carefully this time.
Now I'm looking forward to bedtime and The Blue John Gap.
Cheers Greg.
That was absolutely brilliant thank you so much Greg
Glad you enjoyed it, Annie!
Excellent recording of a wonderful story! It seems that Challenger wouldn't have had to go very far to find a lost world.
Love... Thank you!
My son told me about this story...i had never heard of it .....!!.....😊...cheers 🍻
Cheers to you too!
A joy as always !!
This was a great story! Almost “Weird Tales” like. I enjoyed this very much, thank you!
Thanks for listening, Kater
Thanks, not heard of this.. really enjoyed your reading of it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Bigfoot? An excellent story narrated with dramatic precision Thanks!
Big Sasq! Oh yes...
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Not in England
Great reading. Thank you very much.
Glad you enjoyed it, Steven. All the best!
Not me yelling “DON’T GO DOWN THERE, YOU IDIOT!”
Thank you!
poor iron age sloth. scared as he was. (btw, it is now known that herbivores do sometimes crave animal or insect protein. so even the huge sloths might have needed a sheep or two :) 🌿🐁
i’ve been binging on your readings! much fun. thanks 😊 🌷🌼
BEST. READING EVER ..MERRY CHRISTMAS MISTER
“The Terror of the Blue Gap” was first published in Strand Magazine in 1910.
The creature living underground in darkness very likely was the inspiration for Tolkien’s Gollum.
My daily treat!
"The Blue John Gap" - where you don't want to drop your phone in the Port-A-Potty.
😁
Imagine, if you will, if lovecraft and doyle ever co wrote! What a strange and horrific story they would tell! This story, and the Horrir of the Heights, are excellent examples fear of the unknown, which is basically the specialty of lovecraft.
Great taste. This and Horror of the heights are two of my favourites. Both outstanding tales and very similar in their compositions. Both telling of a man going on a solitary journey seeking truth and facing danger alone.
Great stuff.
Another great reading. Do you have a recording of The Story of the Lost Special or The Tragedy of the Korosko - two of my favorites by ACD? Cheers!
I was thinking of recording The Tragedy of the Korosko which someone recommended I read recently. Am about half way through it and it's great. Very different but full of menace and atmos. So could do that certainly at some point. Don't know the other one you mention. Will have a look. Cheers.
Thanks. They're both fine tales. The Lost Special was collected in Round the Fire and hints at Holmes here and there. You do a fine job voice acting with this stuff. Cheers!
A true Big foot 😮 story 😊! A new "rival " of Sherlock Holmes...😅?!
Does the author say "he died of thesis" ? Do you know what that means? I googled it and could only find the definition of "thesis" like an essay. Thanks
I think it's Phthisis or a similar word. Anyone?
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio A Greek word meaning "a dwindling or wasting away." Pronounced TIE-sis. Phthisis is an archaic name for tuberculosis. --fun to learn a new medical word ty!
@@kristinajones9995 Besides Covid - yeah 😉
Thesis is the old name for TB. Also known as Consumption.
GOOD EVENING. THANk, YOU. NICE READING VOICE
Thank you too!
That's SIR Arthur Conan Doyle to you, sonny.
Indeed!
I mistakenly thought, that the John Blue Gap, held the possible terror, of my appointment, with the dentist.
Anyone studied the Missing 411 phenomenon by David Paulides?
No. Must have a look for it.
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio www.canammissing.com/page/page/8396197.htm [they're on YT as well]
I've a bone to pick with ACD. In his rush to get the story out he often leaves loose ends, and this one at least needs an epilogue. For starters I want to know where sheep losses are at!
The sheep losses have haunted me these many years. Thanks for reminding me!
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio : It all looks innocent enough at the outset... what's a few sheep? Grendel started with sheep I believe, but he didn't stop there!
I wonder what kind of animal was it
It was a honey badger.
@@mickwakefield1874 Top Answer 😊
This is like Hounds of Baskerville with a real crazy Hound...
Ha! And peckish too!
Gee. Couldn’t think of anything to do but kill it?
Beautifully written but a little bit of artistic licence taken in the episode in the cave imo…
Halloweem season means spooky Victorian audiobooks 🧐
Indeed!
Feeling as if I'm cheating having to remind myself the story had to be written so all will well.
👍👍👍🐻
Eat your heart out H P Lovecraft
I have noted with interest that it seems only men and women who are very wealthy can afford to faint, or swoon, after witnessing something traumatic, and perhaps spend three weeks in bed with "brain fever" before going back to their world travels, their shooting or fishing holidays. What if a poor coal miner with a sick wife and three children should witness a cave-in that takes the life of his friend. Can he faint, and then stay in hospital for a week or more? Hell no! They would tell him, "Ay, mate, git up off your azz and get back to your job if you want the bairns to eat this week!" Were the English gentry really that tender, that they faint at the sight of a dog being run over by a cab?
I doubt many coal miners or their families had time to sit in the drawing room by a raging fire sipping port and smoking cigars whilst perusing the Strand magazine. Mum & Dad were busy coughing themselves to death from coal dust or tuberculosis, while the kids too young to go down pit hobbled on their rickets trying not to catch polio.
Giant Sloth?
How dare you!!!
😂
It's mato the bear
Looks like the protagonist ran into a British Bigfoot. 😁
more elaborate victorian description than adventure - i wonder if Doyle was paid by the word - very little originality in this story even at Doyle's time I'm sure - as with many authors - this is just one of many stories that fall between the few outstanding ones produced
I thought this was one of his better ones
However vive la difference 😀
Cheers John
I loved it, in fact was quite scared when listening at night time!
To each their own I suppose! I thought it was great and one of his best stories. But I’m into the fantastic as much as crime drama so it’s an easy “gap” to bridge 😉
Fiction or not it's impossible for me to sympathize or empathize
with this foolhardy character.
Eek !
Gangster
I love this story but the protagonist is foolish 🤣
Źź
Bigfoot
Size 10.
The narrator .. could make the Sermon on the Mount read like a bus timetable ..
Shocking .. almost as bad as librevox ..at least they admit to being amateurs ..
Ha
The greatest reader ever. Thank you 🙏