"The Horror of Abbot's Grange" by Frederick Cowles | Spooky stories | Read by Jasper L'Estrange
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- When a married couple takes up residence at Abbot’s Grange, the husband has reservations about the place, especially when he learns about its dark history. But during their housewarming party, events take a sinister turn…
This original recording is an audio presentation by Jasper L'Estrange for EnCrypted Horror. “The Horror of Abbot’s Grange” by Frederick Cowles (1936).
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About the story:
"The Horror of Abbot’s Grange” by Frederick Cowles. First published in “The Horror of Abbot’s Grange and Other Stories” by Frederick Cowles (pub. Frederick Muller Ltd, 1936).
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Hello! Here's some pulpy schlock horror from the pen of Fred Cowles. CONTENT WARNING: 🐶 Puppy peril 📢Occasional loud noises. NOTE FOR CHANNEL MEMBERS: I'll be uploading the Postmortem episode for this story tomorrow (because I haven't recorded it yet...busy, busy, busy...you know). Hope you enjoy. See you on Christmas Eve. Stay spooky - J.
NICE ONE JASPER..I CATCH IT AFTER MIDNIGHT..SEASONS GREETINGS TO YOU..THANKS MISTER 🥸👍
@@seanmurphy6480You're welcome...and seasons greetings to you too 🎄
Thank you, Jasper L'Estrange 😊 Please take the time to take care of yourself. Have a Merry and a Happy❣️🎁🎄✝️
Thank you! After Christmas I'll be taking the rest of the year off 😁. Happy Christmas to you and yours 🎄🧑🎄🎁
Lol, perfect description.
Jasper is hands down the best horror narrator/artiste/storyteller on the web. He puts so much more of his genius into his creations. Kudos to you Jasper!
Thank you Robert 👍
nothing like an old-fashioned English story involving old houses and chapels, vicars, rites and gloomy weather. even better when the weather out-side is equally as gloomy as in the story. : )
Superb tale & well narrated, just the right amount of spookiness in the voice to give a chilly atmosphere
Thank you kindly 🙏
Is there anything better than a ghastly tale with the word "Horror" in the title narrated by Jasper of EnCrypted Horror fame? I think not!! Cheers!
Cheers Terry 🍻
NOT REALLY 4 SHURE 👍
Brilliantly done, Mr. L'Estrange. Brilliantly done 👍
Pure awesomeness! A touch of "Room in the Tower" and a smidgen of "Thurnley Abbey" delivered perfectly. Again.
Thank you so much 🙏
stokers "tha judges house" too, wit tha vampire hiding/xisting within a portrait
Absolutely amazing story and narration. I love the more frightening and original type of Vampire’s as opposed to the Hollywood Vampire’s they make these days!!
Yes, usually a lot of sulky emo teenagers, the modern vampires. What's scary about that? 😆
Another piece of great story telling by Jasper and a fabulously spooky yarn. Great stuff.
Poor Wolf! 😮 I don’t like when they hurt the animals, I even feel sorry for Cujo 😂
I listen with the headphones on, and my oh my, the sound, especially the music, gives me serious shivers. Wickedly good. 😈
The best way to listen! Glad you enjoyed 👍
I loved this story,and the way it was read,and the sound effects was like I was there ... excellent narrator..
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed 🙏
Supercharged gothic fun. The country manor with the spooky history, the worrisome servant and the cold, dark and gloomy chapel with a burial vault that mustn’t be opened after dark! Wow, he fired both spooky barrels at us. Thanks for taking me somewhere else during my treasured lunch break.
Thank you for the warning of puppy peril, I appreciate it, as that is one thing that can get me right in my core. I begin the story now, with trepidation, and hope that only humans will come to harm. Let's face it, dogs are the best people.
Wow...that was truly creepy! Awesome job with not only the narration but all the creepy sound effects. Thank you for the nightmares Jasper 😧
You're very welcome! Thanks Violet 😊
Cripes! This was a gloriously spooky story - not one that I had come across before, either. Really enjoyed every sinister second, just what I needed tonight. Thank you for this very welcome and much appreciated early Christmas gift!
You're very welcome! Thanks Yvonne 😊
I was going to save this for later, but the title lured me in. Now the evening meal is late, but there's only me to please. Fantastic story, read beautifully as always . Thank you 😊
You're very welcome! Thank you Jacky 🙏
I don't know how many times Jasper has done that to me. I swear I will save it for later, but often fail because I listen to the first sentence. No Regrets!
@michaelgreaves2375 A little of what you fancy does you good 🤭
🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎁🎀A delicious gift for us from *Jasper*
Terrifying story! It was the manner of narration.
This one has quickly become a must-hear for me. Your creation of atmosphere is spine-tingling. The music immediately takes you there. And that evil laugh goes right through me. At least once a day. That's my prescription.
Your narration and story selection are fantastic. Thanks a bunch
Again you take us into our perfect, spooky place, with your brilliant soundscapes.
I see Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Richard Attenborough.
Atmosphere laid on in spades.
Thank you Mr LeStat... I mean LeStrange. 😁
Hear you later.
Happy Bah Humbug!
Monsieur L'Estrange, how kind of you to have me to your house with a tale to cause my blood to run cold, even if the tale is pulpy schlock horror and my blood was already cold. You know how to brighten up a chap's holiday season. Merci bien.
De rien! 😊
ELEY NUMBER 6 ..A LEFT AND RIGHT...A BRACE 4 BOXING DAY .WELL DONE SIR 🧐👍
Excellent! This should be made into a film. A pity Christopher Lee is no longer available.
Amazing! Gave me goosebumps, vampires, yuck!
Thanks Jen! 😊
FROM THE FIRST WORDS .SOUNDS LIKE A BOWLING 🎳 BALL CRUISING DOWN THE ISLE. TOWARDS A....STRIKE ..HAHAHA NICE ONE THANKS MISTER J.LE .S. ❤
Well, l am glad l listened to this in daylight! Thank you for terrifying us.
Loved this Jasper. 🎉🎉🎉
This dropped at a quarter to midnight my time. Excellent listening for a "midnight dreary" in the "bleak December". And perfectly filled the 45 minutes I had before bedtime.
Glad to hear it! Ner-night, Simon 💤
That was a good un - I think an extra strong cocoa is in order to get me off to sleep now though. Cheers Jasper 🙏🏻
One weapons grade hot chocolate coming right up... ☕️🔥
@@EnCryptedHorror Thanks for the offer sir - what a considerate soul you are 🤗
The story & narration were both very spooky & scary, loved it. Many thanks xx
Compliments To your Gamekeeper ❤
Oooooh! I do like a good tussle with the Devil! Thanks, Jasper
Yes, been up against a few queer things that Benedictine monk 😏
A really engaging narration bringing to life a ghastly old tale full of atmosphere. Your pacing is perfect, your narration voice really suited to the pieces you read and perform. Thanks.
Thank you for your very kind comment! 🙏
Blimey, the background music gave me the creeps, straight away and then, when the dead man walked down the stairs..........that one really frit me, Jasper!!!
I love seeing you will be uploading a new little gem for us. I'm like a little kid anticipating a new toy or trip to an amusement park. And you never disappoint. So insanely talented. Thank you for making my day!!! ❤❤😊
Amazing story and narration! Fantastic job! Terrifying and wonderful story.
We all meed a friend like the Benedictine. He knows to get it done!
Your channel is awesome!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed 👍
Excellent! Thank you, Jasper! Creepy indeed. 😱
Thank you Rosie! Glad you enjoyed 😊
Flippin’ ‘eck…good stuff for Sunday teatime 😀♥️☕️
Glad you enjoyed it, Talia! 👍
Oh my Jasper, excellent EXCELLENT Vampire laugh at 15:21!!! How many takes did you require for that one?!?! It chilled me blood!
Thank you so much ❤❤❤
You're very welcome 😊
I love stories about vampires. This one was great.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed! 🙏
You're so good! Love you Mr. L'Estrange. Thank you for these mini masterpieces! ✨;🌙
You're welcome! And thank you very much for listening! 🙏
Listening for prob 5th time. I think we should crowd fund rights to this and Smee for future Xmas ghost stories 😀👻❤️
I just finished your guest narration on Tony's new channel and it was SUPERB. Now this a couple hours later!? Many thx Jasper 🖤☠️
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed! That story on Tony's channel has done very well! 😱 23K views in a week!!
@@EnCryptedHorror Yes I know! I was so excited to see how many new people were introduced to the mystic cryptic Jasper L'Estrange 🪄☠️🖤🆒
@@EnCryptedHorrorCant wait to check that out you two are my favorites.
Absolutely marvellous!!!!
I’m hooked👍🏼❤️
Thank you kindly 🙏
After I finish work today, this is the first thing I am going to enjoy focusing on. I love the work of this channel. Thank you for all your hard work and diligence to delight us!
Enjoyed it very much. Thank you.
Excellent
Thank you kindly 🙏
What a great story. Another reminder of how many neglected writers there are who deserve an airing.
Did he do much else?
This story really gave me the creeps for some reason. I wasn’t expecting to like it so much. This is one of those stories i will revisit from time to time. Great work. Thank you for sharing and for all the effort put it into :)
Thank you kindly! Glad you enjoyed it 🙏
I thoroughly enjoyed that...glad l wasn't listening in the dark..😮...l have subscribed 👍
Awesome o yea
An excellent reading and this story is full of…..authentic details 😄👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Listening to you in my box…until sunset..was wonderful 😊 Well done my friend…a great work of art👍👍….I should know…….🧛🏻
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Oh no, puppy peril! I can't have that IRL, but for a story...okay, if we must.
But when will authors and scriptwriters realize that most of us would rather a human character be harmed than an animal?
Oh, well, things are just the same these days with the MPAA classifying 'violence to humans' as not as explicit as violence to animals or fake animals like hippogriffs and gremlins.
I have to say the production values and narration are top notch here. Well done.👍🏾👍🏾🧛🏽
Well read. Thank you.😊
I really liked this story. Except for the killing of the poor dog. Well, and the guy too but he opened the chapel though right?
Good story
Scary good
You sound like Sean Pertwee,i enjoy your narration it is "top notch" (i do not know how good Pertwee's narration is)
I found this... th-cam.com/video/68tpCpDOsyA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=2VXUvvmp7A__qiNR
Fantastic Story ❤
Perfect Narration ❤
It were reet Hammer that one!
Good one! Loved it.
Glad to hear it! Thanks Larry 👍
I’m looking forward to bedtime now 🙏🏻
🥂cheers
Back atcha 🥂
How many howling dogs did you listen to before choosing the one in the story?
A story has a beginning, a middle and an end. These old ones do.😊
The modern ones don't have endings. I asked my wife what's going on and she told me the endings are done by online discussions.
Apparently the discussion begins as soon as the story doesn't end.🤔
I guess the authors don't have an ending in mind and must wait and see what the public thinks.
This is so foreign and deeply
unsatisfying to me, I must have arrived from somewhere else.
These stories that lack endings are so much like life, why bother to read them. I'm escaping from uncertainty, duh. Keep giving me the endings so I'll know what happened... I'm a drowning woman clutching at razor blades. 😮
As usual superb. What is it with these Victorian authors and their necessity to kill animals in their tales? On hindsight although huge advancements in science and technology during their tenure they were a horrible lot.
Hi Michael. Regarding the question of animals being killed or hurt in stories, it's not something that bothers me as much as it seems to bother some readers/listeners. It's all fictional, after all, but I know some find it very upsetting. As to "the why", I'm sure there are many learned folk out there who have examined the overuse (?) of domestic animal deaths in stories of this vintage, but I have a theory and perhaps it even shows Victorian/Edwardians in a better light...
I think they were very sentimental about pet animals, particularly dogs. And I think, while this might not come across always in the writing, the slaughter of a beloved dog actually carries a lot of emotional weight. In this story, it is the earliest indication that the human characters are dealing with something especially malign...because, if not truly evil, how could it slaughter the family dog?
From a purely mechanical narrative point of view, though Victorians were, by all accounts, dog lovers, they don't yet think of them as I hear people today ("fur babies"), so there's a dog death first before we ramp it up to a human death.
That's my thought about it anyway. My heart does always sink when I read a story and the pet animal dies, just because I know it upsets people.
@@EnCryptedHorror hello jasper and you’ve delighted me with a reply. I think you make perfect sense there and in the context of the stories that does ring true and certainly adds a certain depth of sorrow to the tale. Keep up the excellent work and there’s no one I can bring to mind who read audible stories delivered the way you do. Superb.
What's with all these writers having their characters' pet dogs get killed? This story, and LET LOOSE and THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN?---and there are others, many from this lot of in-kind stories. Very off-putting.
It's a story.
@@EnCryptedHorror Of course it's a story. I mean it's a tiresome cliche----or to use the current day cliche-,, "low-hanging fruit"---to try to create horror. I guess you coul say a lot of these stories are riddled with cliches of one type or another, but this one just comes across, to me, uninventive an a calculation
But I love your readings. Among the very best voices out there doing this kin of work. I din't mean to take away from that. It was about the original authors' choices.
I really erred in not saying, at least, thank you for the your storytellings.
These days, in horror films, they usually tend to spare the pet animals, I've noticed, to spare the sensitive pet-loving viewer rather than avoid a cliche. It becomes another kind of cliche. The family pet has a sort of narrative armour. You know the producers won't dare off the pet, sometimes reducing the suspense. The whole house explodes, nearly all the human cast have been slaughtered, immolated, mangled, but they'll have a shot of the dog rejoining the surviving humans so we can all breathe a sigh of relief. Oh thank goodness.
It's amusing to me that the on-screen murder of young children seems to go in and out of fashion. I think it's back in at the moment.
I know the dead animals upset a lot of listeners. It's never bothered me but since doing this channel my heart always sinks when I read a story I'd like to do here and the pet dies!
Perhaps it is a cliche, but like you say, most of the stories contain well-worn tropes (or, in some cases helped start those tropes).
Some people think it suggests cruelty on the part of these writers, symptomatic of a less humane age. My own thought, FWIW, is that Victorians and Edwardians were sentimental about animals, perhaps more generally and overtly so than previous generations, so the death of a pet (even of a frankly non-descript dog like Brian in Let Loose or the one in this story) is meant to carry emotional weight. It lets us know that there's a threat without having an excessive human body count (which these stories generally don't), probably a result of conventions at the time. That changed not so very long after, but I fear (even if I try to avoid them), while us audio horror narrators continue to mine the stories of the late 19th/early 20th century, we may yet have a few Rovers and Mogs to mourn...
The occasional four-legged fate aside, glad you mostly enjoy the channel! And thanks for commenting 😊
It's like startrek the red shirt, always gets it. So is horror & it's dog's 😅
Jasper YOUr uploads are like 🎄🎁🪄 (Christmas gift magic) all year long! Having you return to YT this year made it better! I’ve not put you on a pedestal, but you never disappoint; in actual FACT, your productions are so incredibly talented that I feel as though I’ve been to a proper film from the storytelling dramatic expression stimulating my own personal imagination. You are such a special connection to a genetic lineage that has been watered down, expanded out, & cut off by the ancestors migrating; so your work literally speaks to an empty longing in my heart & your work fills it with a FANtastic glow! I wish BLE$$ING$ of wealth, health, & happiness! 🪭📮🪄🪆📕🗣️📖
Thank you so much Evelan! I do want my listeners to think they've seen a film. Sometimes...for whatever reason...the results aren't quite what I was aiming for, but I hope they are always entertaining and/or interesting.
Comments like yours reassure me that I'm not wasting my time 🙏
Thanks
Very Good definitely worth a fiver
😁 Thank you so much! Very kind of you 🙏
Oh no not puppy peril 🫣 I may fall asleep while listening because I won't have time till bedtime and I'm jiggered.
Don't you think this time of year is absolutely knackering...?! 😆 I start every evening with big plans and keep dropping off. The other night I fell asleep with sellotape in my hands...
@@EnCryptedHorror 😆 Absolutely, I'm just falling forwards with momentum, I daren't stop or I'll be done and I won't get started again.