"What's Done In The Dark" by Jasper L'Estrange | An EnCrypted Original | Audio horror stories
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.พ. 2022
- A young family move to the rural village of Bleakford and become a part of the local church. But does the vicar's extramarital affair with a parishioner spell trouble for the community?
This is an audio presentation of "What's Done In The Dark", a new story written and narrated by Jasper L'Estrange (2022) for the EnCrypted Classic Horror podcast.
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About the episode:
"What's Done In The Dark" by Jasper L'Estrange was written especially for the show. (c) 2022.
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Hello! Here's another Jasper original. Hope you enjoy it 🙏
THANK YOU!!!!! 🤍♥️🤍
Oh my God, Jasper, you Excited me greatly @11:01 you injected "performative" in the criticism of the female preacher I had a Eureka moment, - let me explain, I am 73 Years old Episcopal Raised man who has come to Loathe the Church, in America. I have now a way back to Christ, St. Boniface Church is a short walk and The Father will not shame Christ like the Protestant performative Assholes.
I have been so disgusted with American Blasphemy perpetuated by means of Martin Luther's Protestant Church, my family were Jews who chose The Church of England (Anglican Catholic) years ago.
I can now Return to the faith, not as a great believer, but because St. Boniface in San Francisco is the Homeless and Poor folk Benefactors I got my Covid-19 Vaccines there, in the 1980's I slept in there, the Basement was a Shelter, that allowed Transsexuals inside. I am a Transsexual.
I have no problem with cross dressing and Scriptures, I have read the Torah and all the Real Bible, which is Not the New Testament. Paul the Apostate with his Hatred and Blasphemies destroyed Protestant Religion.
Well there I go ^^^ ranting and raving.
YET I am not able to keep fear of Hells Fires although The JEWS Knew of No Such a Thing as a Hell after Death, That is a Invention to Keep People in Perpetual Terror, and these poor idiots who believe Go To Hell Fairy tale act like Being a Christian means You Do Not Go To Hell, because Blood of Jesus?
American Religion is performative like P.T. Barnum These a Sucker Born Every Minute, Never Give a Sucker a Even Chance."
Lovely nightmare fuel, Jasper. You may want to start adding a disclaimer before your stories. The realism, probability, and the dread are enough to raise one's blood pressure.⭐👍
Another impressive original. Jasper, friend, your stories are rivalling those by the horror masters of antiquity... Marvelous job!
Thank you, Terry! Glad you liked it. I enjoyed creating it.
Another brilliant original story showing the narration and writing L'Estrange talents. A fascinating story featuring the nature of the resurrection body. Top marks again.
Thank you, John!
Your originals are fantastic. Thank you.
That last line absolutely nailed it. Great story - keeping the details minimal so our imaginations do the rest is a skill!
Thanks Luna! Really pleased you liked it.
Absolutely chilling!
Sometimes the people we so willingly trust with our most precious, deserve the most scrutiny 👍
Indeed, very true, Iron Snowflake. Glad you enjoyed 🙂
That’s a good story,liked the twist at the end.
For me it sums up the hypocrisy of religion & those that do as they like all week,knowing they’ll receive absolution by going to church on Sunday.
Thanks Julie. Glad you liked it 👍
Oh my! Jasper that was insanely good...brilliant in fact. It will undoubtedly ruffle a few feathers, or maybe simply spark debate. Personally I LOVED every minute.
Thanks Violet! Glad you enjoyed it. It was a fun one to write 🙂
Berry, berry, grape contrary…there’s more than sugar in the juice!
Another gem in your crown of talents.❤
I truly appreciate the short escape from reality. ✌
Thanks Lynn. We certainly all need that at the moment...😔
Wonderful! Another (L'E)strange tale, and again you certainly did not disappoint.
Always love to see original works. Well done.
I should listen to the entire story first - I was not expecting an ending that terribly scary and dismaying. Mildly traumatized now but that's what you sign up for listening to horror stories.
Jasper. I agree with one of your listeners that you do indeed rival the very best. M.R.James Algernon Blackwood E.F.Benson. Yet yours are not like theirs for yours are original. Thank You so much
You definitely have incredible talent as both a writer of horror.. and a voice actor who brings the horrific to life. Bravo!
Thanks Jacee. Btw a haunted house story is in the works.
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I SO cannot hardly contain my excitement! Thank you for always replying to your listeners and taking our politely suggested 'requests'. 😀
Wow, you just keep getting better and better. Your use of language and insight into the type of characters that we’ve all met in everyday life ensures that we become more and more invested as the story progresses. Fantastic, loved it .
Thanks Sue, that's great to hear!
Oh...that was Good! Truly horrific because there are people with those characteristics, which sometimes lead to madness. My son came in and asked why I was looking so intensely at the picture on the screen. I was completely engrossed in the story. The picture is perfect. Thank you for sharing your work. It's great! ☠
Thanks Rosie. High praise, indeed! 😊
Truly masterful writing - that ending was as shocking as a punch in the guts!
Perfect. ❤
Oh my goodness that’s excellent. Chills all over.
Thanks mirmcnabb! Chills=job done 👍
BRILLIANT TALE ,JASPER YOU MAY THINK YOUR BECOMING INVISIBLE BUT YOUR WORK IS A VIVID CANVAS AND YOU ARE CERTAINLY AUDIBLE..IN THIS WORLD OF INSANITY YOU PROVIDE ME AND MY PAL WITH A SPACE TO ESCAPE THE REAL HORROR, AND MANY OTHERS IM SURE. RESPECT. GOD BLESS YA MAN 💎🥸👍
Excellent story and reading.
Thanks Aingeal. Glad you liked it 😊
Good heavens, this is such wonderful powerful writing.
Bravo sir!!! 👏
Thanks Kevin, glad you liked it.
Brilliant Jasper, another fine piece of work. Thank you 👍
You're welcome. Thank you, Laura.
I am as you know seldom speechless...but this tale requires some pondering...an excellent quality all too scarce in contemporary literature. Hmm...A much appreciated diversion: THINKING...Namaste
Thank you, anonymous! 🙏
That was a horrific but great story!
Thank you, Clare 🙏
I concur!
Fantastic story, as usual. thank you.
Thanks Blue Greenglue! 😊 Thanks for joining the channel too!
😱 that was very original! You are perfectly suited to writing horror! Stephen King eat your heart out! Really very well delivered also!
Thank you 🙏
Great story, Jasper; fantastic narration!
It is quite horrifying and terrifying. "Unique, original, and well-written" describe all your stories I have listened to.
Thanks!
Oh wow! I have just seen this & I am very excited! My eyes have already been closing so if I fall asleep I will let you know what I think in the morning..... When I saw it was written by you I was delighted! 👏👏🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
I was out like a light last night...😴
@@EnCryptedHorror me too! All that Valium... 😂 lol! Joke! Seriously joke! Not that I didn’t experiment with it in my late teens!🤦🏼♀️I am listening to it now! And oh my God I love the premise for this!!!!!
We would all love to see you reap real rewards before your legacy immortalizes your name. Get Rich Quick, Jasper!
Thanks Glen 👍
Awesome writing and narration , Jasper ! Really enjoyed it ! 💀🎱💀
Thanks Jeff! 👍
Brrrrr, chilling indeed! 10/10!
Classic horror! It’s perfect!
Thanks Beth! Glad you liked it 🙂
Excellent! Beautifully written and preformed. Thx for another great one 🙏🖤☠✌
Thank you, Michelle. Glad you enjoyed 😊
@@EnCryptedHorror Very much. Gonna give this one another listen when I go to bed tonight. I think there were a couple things I didn't pick up on thoroughly the first go-round. Which is a good thing in my opinion. 🖤✌
@@michellebastiani6470 Maybe... although sometimes *I* don't even know what I'm going on about 🤣
@@EnCryptedHorror Lol. Well in that case it's not a talent it's a super power 😂
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Horrifying, but a great story.
Thanks Nancy! Glad you liked it 😊
Fantastic as usual thank you
You're very welcome! Thanks Annette.
Will listen later....love the start Jasper.
Loved this story!I’ll have to look out for more of your originals You’re really talented ☺️
Thanks Lee.
Very good story. I interpreted it as a tale of madness and hypocrisy in which the vicar's mistress sacrificed (murdered) the children. However, for a moment near the end when the vicar was talking about the resurrection, I thought that his wife might be going to come back from the grave to take revenge on the two villains of the piece. I liked your ending more, but I think this would have been one instance in which the supernatural appearance of a vengeful revenant would have been happier than the all too real horrors of the material world.
It's a meager silver lining, but t least the cat and the dog survived. "A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel." -Proverbs 12:10
Thank you. Yes, I certainly intended a tale of madness and hypocrisy, and, yes, I possibly went a shade too dark. I suppose the inciting idea was having been at an actual church and witnessing the children being led off and I had the thought, "What if they didn't come back?" There could, of course, have been a supernatural twist.
Someone took me to task in the comments (I think they deleted it after) on the grounds that the descent into madness was unrealistic. I suspect, partly, they took exception to the distortion of Christian scripture. I increasingly review my own stories I've recorded as first drafts. Were I to revise this one I think I would have included further evidence of the vicar's insanity (perhaps the finding of a Bible with pages ripped out and scrawled over and out of sequence). But at the time I liked the idea that the descent had happened "in the dark", so to speak.
Thanks for your comment.
@@EnCryptedHorror I thought the darker elements of the story were done well. I also liked how the vicar's angry sermon about the evils of gossip, while clearly unhinged and beyond the pale, did point out a real flaw in the village community. Everyone in the village knew that the vicar and his mistress were engaging in increasingly deranged behaviour, and they all rather enjoyed talking about it... but none of them intervened to see if these two evidently quite troubled people needed some help in their growing emotional and mental distress. And, even while gleefully discussing the escalating evidence of their violent and disturbed behaviour, the villagers kept blithely handing over their children to them every Sunday (like lambs to the slaughter, ultimately). I thought it was an interesting exploration of the bystander effect, cognitive dissonance, apathy, and lack of empathy. At a broader level, we see this kind of "village gossip effect" in how we consume media, with the public drawn to ever darker and more titillatingly bizarre stories without ever stopping to consider what we could and should do to help those involved... at least until something really terrible happens that directly affects us. I think your use of the small community as a microcosm of society as a whole was very effective, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" or much of Stephen King's work.
How many of your own stories have you posted now? I've heard the first 3 and they were very good. I really enjoyed them so sent them on to my Sister and asked her to subscribe. Just going to listen to this one now. Thank you.
Hi Aingeal, this would be my fifth story now for the channel. I put them on an Original Stories playlist th-cam.com/play/PL7JYpOrSDoCcFlbXeD8LhCkaJLWqozLz4.html
Glad you've enjoyed them so far 👍
Bravo!
An interesting tale Jasper. As I mentioned before, each one has a different flavour. Felt this one could have used a couple of minutes for closure. ✌️
Scary woman! She brings to mind Mrs Danvers in "Rebecca". But way worse. Thanks J.
You're welcome, Alison 😀
Amazing original. Great talent
So you have a character named Mr Meldrum? Maybe someday you could attempt Mr Meldum's Mania by John Metcalfe. It is VERY challenging for any narrator, but I think you have the skills to pull it off. I can't thank you enough for bringing more of JM's wonderful writing back alive for a new audience..
I love that story. Just read it and laughed out loud at the psychiatrist's notes 😆
You are amazing - what's next - reading two texts at the same time - now THAT would be almost Crossing a Line? Anyway, Jasper - if you need any atonal nonsense for backing sounds please sample my Bandcamp stuff, gratis of course. Stay inside & work, the Outside doesn't really exist now, ...sorry? @@EnCryptedHorror
Damn that was a chilling ending 😲
Yes you’re a very talented author sir. How or why do you channel/stir up the inspiration to begin one of your tales; from a mere kernel or seedling? Getting the ball rolling, so to speak, has always been my problem, as an author and writer generally, so I am very interested in your methods and experiences.
Thanks Bobby. Getting the ball rolling used to be my issue too. This show has given me the motivation because I know if I write something I can share it! It really helps.
Usually they start with a kernel...a "what if?"
In my lorry driver story I had a beginning and just wrote until I had an ending. In this story I had an ending (the sermon is basically one I had heard IRL) and just needed a beginning.
As a writer yourself you may agree with me that it's the middles that are difficult...😉
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Thanks Earthcat! 😊
That was "bloody brilliant". Great story Jasper.
Nasty business 'religion'. Probably we should all keep well away and just try and help each other. Bit of a "twee" sounding sentiment - but true nonetheless. Have personal experience about this. Basically you don't need it if you try and be kind in this difficult world.
"Jesus - and NO Mercy!" (Legend emblazoned on Scots regiments banners during covenanter invasion of England during the civil wars).
Yes, it's always interesting/disturbing when people argue that religion is needed *in order for people to be kind*. What would they do if they didn't think someone was watching...?
@@EnCryptedHorror the horrible supernatural CCTV argument.
Worth trying to get permission to do/or just read/listen to Lord Randy, My Son. By Joe l Hensly. In my opinion the greatest/most subversive supernatural metaphysical story of all time.
@@stephensinclair3771 Ooh sounds good. Looks like pseudopod did a recording with permission. I'll check it out pseudopod.org/2017/06/23/pseudopod-548-lord-randy-my-son/
I would believe that to be a true story, even were it not.
A good listen, as always. How come there are no recent videos?
You are such a good writer! Have you been writing a long time or were you inspired recently to start?
Thank you, Julia! The stories I do on here are a recent thing. Doing the show inspired me. If I go back far enough there will be some aborted attempts at children's books, but we won't talk about that 😄
Miss you Jasper, you've been away far to long
Hi Clare, don't tell anyone, but I've got a new recording done and it'll be out as soon as it's edited and mixed...
@@EnCryptedHorror That's so good to hear. I'm really looking forward to hearing your fabulous voice & great stories.
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👋 Hi Miji!
@@EnCryptedHorror I'm listening & re~listennig
Whoa
Here's my tag: A British family takes 'flight' from the horrors of a degenerating city (for very politically acceptable reasons), only to find that the traditional Church-based haven that they settled in has even greater horrors awaiting them. Chilling and thought-provoking take on a somewhat "folk-horror-ish" tale with the theme of matriarchal subversion unleashing madness or...evil?
Thanks Denny! Good summation there. One of the things about cities is that at least you can be anonymous. This village, in which everyone knows each other's business, is as suffocating, in its own way, as any overcrowded city.
@@EnCryptedHorror People tend to be dismissive of Agatha Christie these days (different genre I knoe) but she really understood the stuff that goes on in villages, the rivalries, the power struggles, the dark underbelly of the hidden pressures. Things may be more obvious and open in cities but in the smaller gatherings of our societies, although better hidden, evil still lurks because the common denominator is us. Human beings. Brilliant story, Jasper. Horrible but brilliant! My BIL was a vicar and thought he'd much prefer villages to towns or cities. After a few years, he said he'd take an inner city over a village any day of the week...
@@susanhepburn6040 I was reading some AC not so long ago and remember being impressed by some of her psychological observations and descriptions of "types". I agree, she's (rightly) celebrated for the ingenuity of her plots, but she was good at capturing (particularly) village life and good on people.
OMG no - kept me in suspense
Wow. The perils of organized religion.
Wow, this really validates my poor opinion of religion in general!
Your voice reminds me of the Inquisitor from Joe Abercrombie’s
THE BLADE ITSELF
Read by Steven Pacy
I wasn't familiar with this, so I checked it out on TH-cam and, yes, I see what you mean 😃
It was my voice first though 😄
@@EnCryptedHorror What a great story and righter
Would you like me to tell you what's really done in the dark?
What happened in the room?
I was trying to imply that the vicar's mistress had stabbed the children in a confused sacrificial act (hence the vicar's sermon about human bodies being transformed in death). The mother was so traumatised she was also transformed mentally.
I think if I were to revisit this story I might include more details of the vicar and his mistress's strange mangling of their faith.