Chimes At Midnight by Paula Readman
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 พ.ค. 2021
- A new bride in an old house. Something stirs the spirits and they visit to right ancient wrongs. A new tale by an award-winning modern writer about a woman who returns from the grave. A classic story reminiscent of Marjorie Bowen and even Tim Burton.
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Enjoyed the story and the narrative. My twin brother was only a day old when he died, I have always felt his presence.
I live in a Victorian terrace built in 1864.
Exactly, I agree, great ghost stories without blood and gore are the very best.
Thank you, Anja. None of my writing is gory, I leave to reader’s imagination
That’s true
@@paulareadman7478 thank you! Such a change from the majority of what is published of late. Much appreciated.
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Love to chill in my bed listening to Tony Waler.... Amazing ...
Loved the story - would not have guessed it was written by a current author. It sounded so Gothic! Enjoyed the interview with Paula Readman, as well! Great narration as always! Thank you, Tony! (Glad the sorry bloke got his just reward in the end!!!!) 🐀
Thank you, Rachel. Tony put me at ease
Paula Readman, thank you for your response! A real pleasure to hear from you personally! Best wishes on all your future endeavors...🐭
@@rattyrachel4316 you’re very welcome.
What?!!! I was so surprised to find out this story is contemporary! I thought there were no writers left capable of telling a good story without reducing it to base gore, sex, or foul language. Well done! Now if only movie producers could figure out that these are the stories that should be put on the screen. Thank you.
Thank you so much, Gigi. I do use a little where necessary in my novels or short stories, but as a rule I’m not fond of over the top blood, sex or gore.
@@paulareadman7478 I understand. I meant that today there is a lack of creativity in storytelling and a heavy reliance on the bad stuff. I look forward to reading your books! So glad to have found out about you through Tony’s channel. Thanks again, and I wish you the best.
@@gigig2492 thank you so much. If you do read my novels I would be very interested to know your thoughts on them. Whether I succeed in telling my tale without unnecessary violence or shock horror. Of course my writing is to be shocking.
Really enjoyed both the story and the interview, Paula comes over as a lovely woman as well as being talented, she is interesting and enthusiastic.
You have a good interviewing technique.
Good wishes 🙏🏼 ❤️ 🍀 🗺️ 🏴.
Bless you, Janet. My husband tells people he has to sleep with one eye 👁 open. So maybe I’m not so lovely 😊🤣
The prose of the book is really poetic. Beautiful narration and atmospheric. Very evocative language. The wrestling of the black tafetta skirt. Could visualize her walking towards the house.
So beautifully written, so well read. Loved it.
Thank you, Dawn for listening to the reading. Tony has a chilling voice, it’s wonderful
The levitation incantation I heard was repeatedly saying, "light as a feather, stiff as a board".
Fascinating and informative interview with Paula. Lovely to hear her story, a local accent and her using so many local historical influences like Marriages & the witch trials. Thank you, Tony. Also with Paula on the gothic influence rather than the gore!
Hi Tony, the great ghost stories follow the dictum, less is more, Paula understands this. The subtle. My favorite and still chilling are the original film with Julie Harris, The Haunting of Hill House- that booming, frightened me as a teen and still does. And The Changeling, with the inimitable George C. Scott- virtually no phenomenon- they borrowed the boom and I won't spoil the rest- for those who love this channel, The Changeling is on you tube, in full, for free, watch it, a marvelous film, what the genre is about. Forget The Texas Chainsaw Massacre silliness. As a person, ironically married to a psychiatric nurse, the fears you can't always name are the most terrifying...Thanks for another wonderful story with great well written, English! Namaste, Z
Thank you 😊 of course I do. As a children we are scared of the dark and our mind work overtime. 😒
"The art of levitation" at my school was far grimmer, and the lines repeated around the person were :"she looks sick... she is sick... she's dying... she's dead... put her in the coffin... lift up the coffin".
It did work.
We never had anything like that. I feel robbed.
@@ClassicGhost I think it's a girl thing
Another horrific (in a delicious way) tale. So happy Ms. Readman had the inspiration! I don't believe I've I've said how much not only your narration, but your background info and chats really add to the wonderful ambience. Thank you, Mr. Walker.
Thanks to both of you for entrancing us, painting images; senstive presentation with voice and words. Thank for your giving conversation. Informative and entertaining. Please continue what you do. (I too am a victim of New English--and New Math), so we are not alone.
Thank you for listening, Marti. I’m so pleased you enjoyed it.
@@paulareadman7478 I`m the one who says thank you! Receive your book om the 17 may through my true true and Faitful Danish on-line book shop. You and Tony are putting ghost storys on the map here :=)
Wow! Thank you so much I better write a few more. 😊 I’m busy working on my Granny Wenlock novel at the moment.
@@paulareadman7478 Really looking forward to meeting Granny Wenlock!! !! :0)
@@martiwilliams4592 The Funeral Birds novella is available on Amazon as ebook or paperback. It’s a short read. Demain publishing asked me to write a novel with the same characters. This is allowing me to explore the characters more and uncover more about Granny Wenlock and her past
Love a ghost story told from the ghosts point of view. Lovely narration and enlightening interview. Thank you Tony and Paula
Great story, great reading and great interview with the author. Thank you.
Chimes, darkly and sadly beautiful
Lovely! And I adore the interview with Ms. Readman as well! Thank you
Omg I just saw this! How could I have missed it! I am loving this!!! 🌷🪷🌷
I like the focus on living authors (yourself certainly included)
What a fantastic short story, very M.R James, I'll be listening to this again on Christmas eve.
Well done Paula, this might be my favourite of your short stories.
Also, I really enjoyed the reading, very atmospheric.
Also The Art Of Levitation modified over the years as "Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board" and is noted in a scene in the 90's film 'The Craft'.
Great narration and story.
How enchanting that Paula appears ghostly in her images! Wonderful story well written & remarkably told.
Yes, she is ghostly. Did you see her husband and cat appear?
@@ClassicGhost Brutus was easy to spot. Hubby around 30:00 a bit trickier, like the spirit he may well be.
Thank you so much, Ramey. You have to get into the spirit of things 😉😂🤣 Tony reads beautifully.
A delight to be able to meet both you inspiring people! Thank you! Please continue!
Have ordered Paula Readman's book over Saxo here in Denmark. Have several of yours, Tony, already :0)
Love these kinds of ghost stories.
Good story, and really fascinating interview👍🙂
@ around 55:00 I didn't know (unsurprisingly) there was a British version of what we (here in my part of the U.S.) call "Light As A Feather Stiff As A Board". The version she played had an interesting chant (if it exists in the U.S.; I don't know of it). My friends and I played it as preteens (2 kids per side) with great success , even with the heaviest of my friends (who was pretty heavy). Anyway, finding out about the U.K. version was really cool, and the chant was far better than our just repeating " Stiff as a feather light as a board."
Thank you, Undead. Your version sounds more acceptable than the one we played which was very supernatural.
What an inspiring interview (and story!) Have always wanted to attempt a ghost story and Paula has now inspired me to try :) Thanks both!!
Thank you, Melanie. Please have a go. Plenty of inspirational stories and buildings around.
Awesome story, Ms. Readman wrote a classic.
Thank you so much, Dean.
@@paulareadman7478 You're so very welcome :)
Beautifully written.
Thank you both for a great story and narration.
Thank you so much, Ann for dropping by and leaving a comment
That was a really infectious enjoyable interview x
Thank you Juliet. I really should calm down but I’m having amazing time with my writing at the moment. A local bookshop has just accepted my Stone Angels novel to sell. I’m still buzzing from that and to have Tony to read my work too. I’m in Author’s heaven 😊❤️
@@paulareadman7478 That kind of feeling can be really inspiring + energising for an author. I'm referencing the sense that you're spirits (haha) have been lifted, from your response here to Juliet. I trust you find this glorious high fruitful Paula Readman as I too am looking forward to more of your amazingly atmospheric + evocative works! From an Ossie fan! 👇💜🙃
@@cousinsister69 thank you so much, Birdy.
Very spooky story. I enjoyed it. Interesting interview. I've been following Paula's blog for awhile, but I still learned much more about the author today, good interview!
Glad you enjoyed it! Good you managed to see her too :)
Thank you so much Priscilla for listening in and leaving a comment. I try to drop by your blog as often as I can.
Well done it has a good flow to this story. Tony Walker voice is made for listening , that makes the story more memorable ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thank you Andrea. Tony has an amazing voice you could listen to all day
We all need to get chills in our bones from time to time
Thank you ,this was so inspirational...the story was BRILLIANT
Thank you so much. I’m so pleased you enjoyed my story.
Great reading Tony and a brilliant interview.
Well done .beautifully done to the author & narrator !
Thanks for listening
The prose of the book is really poetic. The atmosphe
Chant is: “Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board.” We did this too. It did work.
We also had a youthful seance & I “adopted” the spirit of the girl who hadn’t passed over. For several years, I carried her with my energy, until my Grandfather read my signature & intuited the attached spirit; & we then did a cleansing & releasing Ho’OponoOno (spelling?); a Hawaiian daily & deep chakra/auric/energetic cleansing ritual- we released the earth bound spirit. Not my first but it was really a familial spiritual experience! Thank you for your honesty & sharing.
Such a lovely, amazing world we live in.
Élan vital.
Just happened upon this channel and I am loving it… I can’t stop listening and it’s 4 AM
Im glad you found us. Remember to lie in tomorrow
21:34 She explains exactly why I can read about creepy horror stories, but watching them brings me unease!
Definitely my cup of earl grey thanks to both of u 🙏💜🙏💜
Fantastic story and narration!
Thanks!
loved it thanks
Thank you Tony + Paula for a beautiful book + a terrific narration that did it justice. I delighted in sensing a shadowy + spooky ambience. Involving an elegant but ethereal lady. I am looking forward to your next well matched collaboration. From an Ossie fan! 👇💜🙃
Re listening to your lovely story after taking a break to purchase all your books and bookmarking your blog.
Thank you for making safe gothic ghost stories.
I put your Chimes at Midnight alongside Wilkie Collins' Lady in White.
Thank you darling. You inspire me. Thank you Tony for showcasing a fine storyteller.
Oh thank you so much,Kelli. You have taken my breath away! I never expected to see my name in the same sentence as Willkie Collins 😊
Dearest Paula, you evoked suspense, dread, compassion for the victim and anger towards a villain in fewer words than Wilkie Collins ever did.
You will be included on the shelf with Wilkie Collins and M.R. James next to Wharton's ghost stories, Daphne du Maurier and Shirley Jackson. My library is my favorite room. You are wonderful company my dear.
well deserved Paula.
Beautiful narration.
Enjoyed the story and the interview. Very encouraging.
Enjoyed that. Great to hear a story from the ghosts point of view. Putting things right. And a contemporary author. You are inspiring me to start writing again. Thank you.
Thank you so much Liz. I’m so glad you’re writing again. If you need to promote your writing please drop by my blog and send me a request for a guest chat. I’m very happy to promote other writers. Please check out the chats there too.
Thank you, Tony. That was a wonderful reading and a super interview. I look forward to learning more about Paula Readman.
Thank you so much, Andrew.
@@paulareadman7478 Your personal story is an inspiring one. It’s never too late to start! My own struggle with mild-dyslexia and another learning challenge were not recognised until my late 40s. I left school at 15. I’m working on a master’s degree now in my 50s.
@@andrewkoastephens210 that’s brilliant! Congratulations, Andrew. I wish you all the success. It’s important to keep on learning new things and keep the mind active too.
What a treat!
Thank you Sparkle ✨
Listened again 👍🏼 ❤️
Did you see the cat again?
This story made me wonder for how many murdered women throughout human history this story burns a metaphorical candle that illuminates the injustice done to them. Many husbands too have had arsenic or such slipped into their supper to expidite inheritance, insurance or to make way for another... Humans are a monstrously evil creature, male and female all.
Thanks for a story with a shade of retribution. And the interview. I don’t know which I enjoyed more. It’s mind boggling that they didn’t teach grammar at that time. My grammar classes were so intense that I have emotional scars ....
Hi Theodore, thank you for dropping by.
Oh my Theodore Calvin. If that wasn't sarcasm + I feel it wasn't, could you tell us more about that please? Wishing you + yours good health + happiness. From an Ossie down under! 👇💜🙃
@@cousinsister69 I assume you refer to my school trauma. I was a kid in the 70s and 80s, attending suburban US public schools. I was told it was the best place to be, and believed it. Maybe it was. Regardless, I spent decades blaming myself for my “disastrous” life to follow, with every mistake echoing the voices of disappointment from teachers and coaches who (I can only hope) didn’t realize how destructive their admonishments for original and independent thinking/choice was on young egos. I’ve been slowly un-training myself from that. But meanwhile I’m a writer that doesn’t write, a musician that doesn’t play, and an adventure lover who wrestles with the wilds of driving to work under hopelessly endless debt. But at least I know grammar, so I have that going for me.
Excellent elegant acrimonious revenge
Oh yes
This was beautifully written ❤️
Hello all, received a recommendation for your channel today... Pleased I took a listen to the story think it was Dentwater Haunting... That story was excellent and extremely well read!! Starting The Chimes at Midnight next... Really enjoying these so far!!! Thank you and please continue the great work!!!
Very good. I’m glad to have you here
Old fashion ghost stories are the best.
Im sooo sick..every other noise hurts,lol
But.... ahhhhhhhhhhhh
Gonna sink right into this one
Thank you!!!🌼🌼
THAT was the ghost tale i was looking for!❤
Actually I really really love this! It sounds familiar….. 🌻
Love your readings- great story!
Sorry I didn't thank you immediately. Thank you very much!
Ooh, we used to do the levitation thing in school breaks. I wish I could remember how we did it.
Did it work?
@@ClassicGhost Yes.
Interesting interview and loved the story; reminiscent of Poe! Great reading, as always.
Thank you
I 💜💜💜💜 this story 😻
Brilliant interview from a Brilliant writer.
Thank you Ana. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Tony, you must be around the age of my children. They weren't taught grammar, either. They went to school in the 1980s.
1970s. I left school in 1979
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I have written stories that just "came through me." I know what she means.
Great minds think alike, Susan. 😊Thank you for your comment
Brilliant as usual, but could you please boost the audio levels on this?
Unfortunately once it’s posted I would have to delete it and repost. Is it the interview or the story? I could possibly send you an mp3
I enjoyed this story very much. You are both so talented. Have either of you seen the youtube channel of Mark John Maguire called They Got Away With Murder? He does true crime videos but many of them are Victorian. I bet you could both get some inspiration from his work. He's super talented and like you Tony, a one man band. It's incredible how much great content lone youtubers create.
I don't know that one. I will take a look
I'm subscribed to TGAWM as well. One of my fav channels!
I just listened to the latest Maguire video & thought about how much I liked his voice - comparing him with my benchmark, which is Tony Walker.
Thank you for dropping by, J. No I must check it out.
Lady Eleanor ? Was that a Kevin Ayers song ? Love the story and the interview and couldn’t agree with both of you. The first stories to frighten me were classic ghost stories. I dom’t put down blood and gore which has its place but mood and ambience and backstory is where the real terror lies. The cumulative effect of details that just seem off. A lot of the Victorian ghost stories are predictable for sure but so is the inevitability of the worst nightmares. You know it’s coming and can’t tear away no matter how much you may want. We didn’t learn in American public schools in the 70s either. They were warehouses for kids. Grammar ? Not a chance.
Lindisfarne did Lady Eleanor. Old school all the way ;)
@@ClassicGhost Many thanks sir ! Kevin Ayers just didn't seem right and that's because his song was 'Lady Rachel'. As a fan of many years of Strawbs and Pentangle and Comus I should be much more up on my Lindsfairne. Just between you and me I even like the Incredible String Band though if you tell anyone I said so I'll deny it up and down. To sound exactly like the old fogey I am I can say they just don't make music like that anymore. And now it's off to my Classic Ghost Stories menu to find what you'll curdle my blood with tonight !
Thank you, Teddy. I agree. Each to their own. I just don’t write it myself.
I love the stories but thank goodness Paula Readman's mother burned the Oui Ja board!
Are you going to have talking at the end of all your narrations from now on??
You mean interviews? I do that with living writers. When they're dead, you're stuck with me talking to myself.
Mmmm.... Delicious....!!!
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@21:01 - it takes real skill to chill and frighten one's audience without resorting to the cheap tricks of blood, vomit, and excrement. Idiotic movies like "Alien" in which the writers/directors try to substitute grotesquerie, disgust and revulsion for genuine fear disgust me, and I definitely do not spend my money upon such rattle-brained efforts as those. Ah, but "The Blair Witch" - so much more frightening!
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