"Nobody's House" / A Classic Ghost Story by A. M. Burrage
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2024
- "Nobody's House" is a short story by the British writer, A. M. Burrage. In the story, which first appeared in his 1927 collection, SOME GHOST STORIES, a prospective homebuyer visits an old house, eager to hear of its haunted history...
00:00 - Introduction
00:52 - Nobody's House
29:51 - Further Listening
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Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble
Music and production by Ian Gordon & Jennifer Gill
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“. . . decorated largely with the portraits of people who ought to have known better than to be photographed.” Great line!
i thought the same thing haha
À API
Indeed
:-)
The same thing applies today, lol. Unfortunately, people just run their photos through Hollywood level special effects filters, and upload them, and have half the world convinced that they really look like that; but, the mirror doesn't lie. I would love to be around in a hundred years, and hear what the anthropologists, sociologists etc. say about this Era, and see the comparison before and after photos.
Brilliant story. My heart goes out to the main character. Poor bastard.
I agree
I am so glad you have done this story. It is to my mind the finest ghost story ever written - another of Burrage's, 'Smee', is great too.
Your witness says he saw us at half past eleven on the Gainesville pike, headed for Big Cypress Swamp. This is probably true, but I have no distinct memory of it. The picture seared into my soul is of one scene only, and the hour must have been long after midnight; for a waning crescent moon was high in the vaporous heavens.
Keep up the good work fella and stay safe
The cassette caught my eye, the stories made me subscribe. Glad I found you, thanks.
You've really been popping them out this week, thank you so much!
Excellent! Very good! Thank you Mr. Gordon and Horror Babble. Excellent as always. Until next time.
I'm here Warren!!! Trying to get you out!!!
YOU FOOL! WARREN IS DEAD!
@@abdulmourad169 Randolph and I know different!!!
At Miskatonic University the Department of Necromancy has been bringing the dead back to life since 1690.
YOU FOOL! YOUR CAR'S EXTENDED WARRANTY IS NEARLY DEAD!
@@abdulmourad169 If he isn't, my t-shirt and hoodie are telling lies 🤔😂.
Good wishes 🙏🏼 ❤️ 🍀 🗺️
Falling into bed listening to my favourite bedtime channel. Thank you from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Hey! This is the perfect way to pass these dog days of summer. Thanks to all to all you at Horror able!
at the risk of sounding stupid I want to ask why do youcall them dog days, here where I stay (South Africa) we do not use that expression, but I have read it often and do not understand it. Please
@@michelleduplooymalherbe2837
Ten months too late, but....
noun plural:
The hot, sultry period of summer between early July and early September.
A period of stagnation.
noun:
The days between early July and early September when Sirius (the Dog Star) rises and sets with the Sun.
😊❤
@@thehangingparsiple5692 thank you for explaining
🙂
There's one sweet piece of television that goes by the name of _The Return_ with Peter Vaughan that was based on this story
For some reason, I didn’t even think about the man being Parboys, or Harboys, the previous owner that went to jail. That was a good one.
Forgive my ignorance but can you define parboys please i dont know the word
@@chrisu7022 Parboys, or maybe it was Harboys, was the name of the previous owner of the manor, the one that shot his friend.
Thanks for all your hard work, helped me sleep this week, no small feat in this weather. And as always thank to all involved for your hard work...
Kitty
This writer is absolutely brutal with his descriptions of people! I love it!
The stories have been extra good recently. ❤
What a lovely bit of atmosphere.
Amazing story and narration!
I feel bad for the main character.....poor bastard.
This is a fine story. I listened to it twice today.
Great job, Ian. Thanks for bringing this one to us!
I am a horrorbabbler? I am honoured.
Brilliant 👌
Thanks for helping to keep us sane. whatever that is
Feels weird to see my online alias (Uriah Light) in the video description, hehe. Fantastic narration, as always!
Does this mean Tekel Upharsin is your off line name? Uriah light be your on-line alias. Are you the talented writer to this excellent piece then?
Great how the story builds up and give you a hint of who’s who!
Another New Oldie!! Thanks again!!
Excellent work as always Ian, keep doin what ya do.
Wasn’t there an Alfred Hitchcock or Twilight Zone tv series episode based on this story? HB has done a amazing performance of the story, (as always)🤗
It reminds me of "the others".
There was a version for TV called 'The Return' from 1973 directed by Sture Rydman and starring Peter Vaughan. It borrows a certain element from Bierce's 'The Middle Toe of The Right Foot', but is otherwise an excellent adaptation of this story, with a great soundtrack by Marc Wilkinson.
@@kyriakospentheides I saw this TV show too. Very good, very atmospheric.
That's a good one.thanks my man.
Thank you from this Horrorbabbler 😃👻
Thank you.
Fantastic!! As always! How did you become a vocal actor? I've been thinking about looking into bit myself ☺️
I love your narration
AWESOME :)
Good one.
For the longer version, set playback speed to .5
There was a story I heard last year when I was going thru the channel, it was about an old man who had killed his wife and now he loves alone out in the woods, well she ends up coming back to him and sits in his kitchen to have a conversation with him, I can't find it! 😢 I've looked it up online and nothing, maybe someone can help?? Ps he killed her because he believed she was cheating on him when she would leave everyday for a walk in the woods
Could it be this one? th-cam.com/video/cFQNkiYrCDs/w-d-xo.html
@@HorrorBabble yes!!!! Thank you so much ❤
@@FallinFromTheSkyy That's a great story, the deeper it went the crazier it felt :)
I know of the story you describe I listen to it just yesterday.
Can I find a playlist of your music anywhere? It's so great and I can't find a place where you've released it all to stream/ buy, if one exists
Hello! We haven't put a collection together yet, but we are planning to do so in the future. There are some bits and bobs over on my personal Bandcamp page, but not much that has been used over here at HB: iangordon.bandcamp.com
Thanks for your interest, though!
Should be made a short movie, if it hasn't already at some point.
It was dramatized for old time radio and the play is available here. There is more focus on the moody elements in that. However, I think Ian's narration does more justice to the central character and that dramatic finale.
listening from the uk wales 2021❤️
This particular story I couldn't be scared due to laughing so hard
5:12 Ouch, that was quite the burn.
Good story
❤
Another story from me boi!!
“Peter Marsh had been piloting her....”
Never heard it called that before.
Filthy beast.
So.... That ending was clear as muck. Sounds like Parboys (spelling?) tried to kill himself and hit Peter instead? Then when Peter's ghost showed up Parboys managed to do the job right the second time?
Wonderful narration, as always, though I was a bit disappointed by the tale itself. Not one of his best, not a patch on Smee.
The return of peter Vaughan
Loved it! Denial is a bitch!
Great story, very much enjoyed it. However why where the bullet holes side by side if he was leaving out the door?
The person firing was shooting as the target ran, leaving a trail of holes side by side: rather than all in a group, which would indicate the target stood still.
@@dovebair There were only two bullet holes. One was from before the guy arrived at the house. The other appeared the next morning.
Have you done a reading of Mordecai's Pipe?
Curious if this channel will ever do some of the Kwaidan tales.
Absolutely. We recorded "Yuki-onna" a few years ago: th-cam.com/video/V0mUH_txSls/w-d-xo.html
We'll revisit Hearn's stuff again, for sure.
@@HorrorBabble My fave of the collection ^_^
Im confused did he kill him and thats why he killed himself?
me, too. also the bullets in the wall? did they go completely through their head and lodge in the wall?
@@feralbluee He tried to shot the ghost in the same position and for the same reasons as 20 years ago, and then he shot himself.
@@MathOnMain This is my impression as well :)
Isn't it an Avril Lavigne song or something?
Eeeh. It’s an ok story.
“Two of gods best and whitest people” omfg lol
At the time this story is set, to say some one was "white" was to mean "good." If someone were to do you a favor, for example, you could say "how very white of you." In todays context though, it does sound funny.
@@brandonletzko4239 ur absolutely tripping if u think that has no deeeeeep racial connotations
@@TheMarauderOfficial Not when used in this context. Language changes over the years. If they had wanted to make a point about race in the story, they would have done so with different terms.
@@brandonletzko4239 www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white
2 c. [ from the former stereotypical and racist association of good character with northern European descent ] dated, offensive : marked by upright fairness
//That's mighty white of you
NOTE: This use of white is sometimes used ironically.
@@brandonletzko4239 there is no context where this isn't a racist thing to say. Not even back when it was coined.
The moment an amazing bit of story telling is thrown by a line that aged like fine milk. "He knew that they were two of God's best and whitest people!".
It was written in 1927 hardly “woke” times 😳