"The Cairn" by H.R. Wakefield | Classic horror stories | Audiobook
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- Two friends holidaying in the Lake District show an interest in climbing Brudon Hill, but the locals won't go up there when there's snowfall. Seebright dismisses their fear as superstition and decides to climb anyway.
This original recording is an audio presentation by Jasper L'Estrange for EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast. "The Cairn" by H. Russell Wakefield was first published in 1929.
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About the story:
First published in "Others Who Returned" by H.R. Wakefield. Published by D.Appleton & Company, 1929.
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The recording was created using Audacity and BandLab. Podcast hosted by Anchor.
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Hope you enjoy this frosty little tale. They'll be another from H.Russell Wakefield coming up soon. Hope you're all well. J
Most excellent
Sound effects and narration is worthy of the story itself
Absolute GOOSEBUMPS!
Oh no , audio book has gone full blown out excellent! Reminds me of Golden age radio shows from 29 -63 and brief comeback in 74-77
Thank You and thank You Jesus Christ- I knew humans had potential for greatness
I have to admit, your use of sound effects and incidental music lately has been STELLAR; really adds to the production without being distracting, which is difficult to accomplish. Thanks for all your hard work!
Thanks Scout. Much appreciated.
My thoughts exactly!
Amazing story and narration. I really like this one.
These old gents knew how to write good horror and ghost stories! Their writing and proper use of the language is amazing and causes the words to just flow.
I really like your use of background noise.
This was excellent. Thank you!
Another great one Jasper. Thanks. Sorry for missing the others. Stuff going on!
"Hills" are funny things. Suspect there are many more wild places in the UK than most of the people who associate the word 'holiday' with 'airport' know. Those places are alive.
Hi Stephen/Archie! Hope all is well, or as well as it can be.
Love me some HR Wakefield! Thank you for doing this, I always felt that he never got the recognition in the States that he deserves. Great job!
You'll hopefully be pleased to hear there's some more Wakefield on the way...very soon...
The way the back story was brought in to put the mystery in place pushes this short tale forward ... I do like it & nice eerie soundtrack too *TY Jasper*
Thanks Miji! Yes, I love the music in this one.
Your regional accents are flawless. Great yarn, that :) your back catalogue is helping me heal marvelously. Thank you good sir!
Glad to be of some help 😁. Feel better soon 🙏
Another wonderful story and reading from the hard-working Jasper!
Thanks John! Glad you enjoyed it.
I completely forgot about this story. Thank you for refreshing my memory with this excellent upload.
You're welcome. Thanks June.
Most enjoyable, as always. The ending was not what I expected, yet it felt more satisfying that reason. Sometimes folks just have to tweak the nose of the uncanny.
Dark & creepy, signature Wakefield. Spot-on audio dramatization, I thoroughly enjoyed every second!
Thanks Terry, glad to hear it!
Another treat from Jasper! Excellent timing. I enjoyed this wee one , esp sound FX, voices, old fashionedness. Great.
Thanks Alison, good to know!
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Well read! Wakefield does some awesome folk horror 👍🏻🥃
This one is thoroughly satisfying! Simple, chilling, and thanks to your perfectly pitched delivery as close as audio can come to being visual. A masterful piece of work! Thank you.
Thank you, Hugh. Very kind of you to say 👍
Another great story, thank you Jasper!
You're welcome! Thanks Nancy.
Yet another in a long line of excellent presentations. Kudos!
Thank you shadownet3d! Much appreciated.
What a haunting little love story flawlessly presented 💜
Very well done! Thank you 🙂❤
You're welcome 🙏
Thanks JASPER...HOPE YOUR OK ❤
Love this eerie tale , but as someone who always wants to know everything , what was it ? 🤔🤔💕
You'd be better off asking the author...oh, you can't 😔 My take would be that what they took to be a pile of rocks was a living, sleeping snow beast - some creature the ancients feared and revered back in the ice age.
Again, I don't know for sure, but I think the pub name in the story (The Hare and Form) is meant to be a clue that the cairn is actually the shape of the monster in hiding. And Seebright says he's going to tweak the nose of "the local bogey". He unwittingly does this when he slaps the cairn.
@@EnCryptedHorror thank you 😊
@@EnCryptedHorror the hare and form suggests shapeshifters maybe 🤔
@@loulou7963 Yeah, maybe. I was more thinking that a hare's form is a depression in the grass where it lays, so maybe the snow monster is hiding in a hole in the ground at the top of the mountain and its back is mistaken for a cairn. Or something 😄
I looked through the telescope and saw what appeared to be former Congressman and infamous exhibitionist Anthony Weiner wearing just a trench coat at the cairn. At the point he went to open the front of the trench coat, I looked away, but I don't think the two gentlemen who went up the mountain did. Whatever they saw killed them. From now on, we only send blind people up the mountain, but that has resulted in other problems especially when they were operating snow mobiles.
Anybody hiked/scrambled through the Enchantments of Central Washington 8n deep snow?
One loses count how many cairns in the Core and vicinity.
I don't understand the end 😣
I often don't understand the endings 🤣 My take would be that Welland wasn't too far off when he said the local bogey was the personification of an avalanche (going back to the ice age). Welland dreams that the pile of rocks at the top of the hill is a crouching monster. Before he sets out Seebright says he will tweak the nose of the bogey. He does this unwittingly by slapping the cairn when he reaches the top, and it chases him. Perhaps in the ancient times this mountain deity was part of the end of winter ritual and the deaths of the two men have melted the snow. The constable seemed to know the snow on the mountain would have gone because it happened when the Londoner died as well.
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We aren’t too familar with the word “cairn” in the US( except in Cairn terrier the dog breed).
Is cairn a word people still use in Britain or is it considered archaic? Where I live a lot of people pronounce creek as “crick” and youd have a good laugh at how we pronounce “ realtor”😅.
We were only joking about realtors on the car ride home the other day 😄. Erm...it's a bit difficult to say about the word "cairn". Not really archaic, but probably a word that country people would know and use, and that people who have retained some affinity with the country and its geography would use (fell-walkers, local historians, etc.). It's probably harsh to say, but those people may be a dwindling minority. A lot of urban folk (and I'm a city dweller myself) lack the vocabulary to describe what's even on their own doorstep. I had to explain to a young urbanite what a canal was a few weeks ago.
@@EnCryptedHorror I consider it a good day when I learn a new word.
Me too 😁 and I've learned a lot from reading these stories!
This what happens to people who have no respect for folkloric motifs. 🤔
Is it too early for bed ? 😂❤
Nah.
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I wonder if these guys, so devoted to each other, were in love? If so, their fate was very fitting!
We find a lot of these very deep platonic friendships in stories of this era, don't we?
@@EnCryptedHorror Yes. Sort of like Sparta: men found it easier to fall in love with each other than with women, due to gender segregation I take it...
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Gesundheit 🤣