"The Same Dog" by Robert Aickman | Audio narration
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- The lives of a young girl and boy are changed irrevocably following an encounter with a strange dog at a mysterious house. But what really happened that day, and was it (as Mary suggests) a “haunted house”?
This original recording is an audio presentation by Jasper L'Estrange for EnCrypted Horror.
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About the story:
"The Same Dog” by Robert Aickman. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1974. First collected in “Cold Hand in Mine” by Robert Aickman (pub. Gollancz, 1975).
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A weird sort of love story (unrequited, naturally). Well, it *is* Valentine's Day. If that gets you in the mood, there's a Bad Romance playlist here: th-cam.com/play/PL7JYpOrSDoCcKVHrBv6l10n1MGJkzU1-w.html&si=1RwqYYu8YdYBHIu0
CONTENT ADVICE: ❌️ I mispronounce the word "ogeed" but it was all Google's fault 😢 ✂️ Also I accidentally edited out a line near the end. It shouldn't affect your understanding though. Sorry folks! I was rushing. Elsewhere 🐶 Prolonged loud barking.
Thanks *Jasper* for this *bad romance* playlist perfect day for it as it is one of the most hated holidays from what I gather from light observations on social media
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Another especially good one. I'd love to hear more from this author.
Images of this story are stuck with me for years now. Aickman was a master of his strange tales.
Ach, Aickman strikes again! Another astoundingly simple-seeming yet rich and uncanny tale. Your narration is exquisite - not so much "reading a story" as delivering a mental moving picture. Left with loneliness at the end; resignation; uneasy bewilderment. I love it. Thank you so very much!
Excellent as always, great story, great narration. Thamk you.
That's the first Aikman story I read. It remains my favorite. You did a truly excellent job of adapting it to spoken word. Much thanks.
That was nothing short of brilliant, the perfect combination.
Excellent rendition of a fine Aickman story. I think this is the second creepiest yellow dog we've encountered, after the one in Hugh Walpole's magnificent "Tarnhelm".
Yes, Aickman certainly knew the Walpole story because he anthologised it in one of his Fontana Ghost Story collections. It's hard not to think his dog was inspired by "Tarnhelm" in some way.
Aickman's charaterization of his stories as "strange tales" is spot on. They aren't "this" and they aren't "that". They remain odd in a class of their
own. And in that they rise supremely disturbing.
Wow. I do love Robert Aickman, despite all the psychological abuse he gives me. Perhaps, because of it. Always haunting, his stories stick to my mind like hot tar. Hearing it read by the Great Jasper L’Estrange with atmospheric sound gives it a whole new dimension of trancelike terror. I do hope you’ll read another of his, sometime soon.
That's called Stockholm Syndrome
I was not notified of this video... TH-cam is up to their shady schitt again 😵
Billion dollar corp, can't be bothered to do literally jack sh to invest & improve a single thing on their platform, too busy censoring us, and finding ways, like their parent co., Google, to INTENTIONALLY break the search algorithm, so we can't find anything, removing dislikes so we can't tell if a tips chan is wothless or valuable, etc. ad nauseam. So sick of these effete elitist globalist psychopaths.
Cheers
going back, one realizes how disturbing childhood was and is.
The fact that we forget huge parts of it is such a blessing...
great comment, that
My neighbors have dogs ... I just hate'em & the dogs too! Just kidding ... although I am a cat person
Bit of a weird one this, but I enjoyed it. I could easily imagine it as a Hammer Horror film (God I love those films!) which is fitting really, because I just looked him up and discovered he was quite prolific between late sixties and seventies. Hope to hear more from Mr Aickman, Jasper.
Perfectly narrated as always, thank you 💕
Oh, what a great story. Fantastic narration. All those years.....
The connection you described to me yesterday is indeed there!
Thanks for performing this story for us.
The most perfect story for the day 😊 I'm hitting that playlist for the rest of this holiday binge. Thanks ever so Jasper, for your creepy narrations. I still am unable to finish "Outside the House". I had to leave him being held by the yard and can't get any further. Excellent work!
Jasper's performance makes a good story a great story
Talk about The Hounds of Love!
Well one hound... anyway Thanks Jasper.
Wonderfully creepy and melancholic.
I hope that you have a very happy Valentine's Day.
Thanks for your perfectly atmospheric production.
My favourite Aickman so far, it's most likely you had something to do with that.
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"Mary land" how ironic and poetic the ending was. The name of the place to be inscribed on a child's map. Sad, but lovely too.
Arg please your comment pops up as the top comment in the browser, I try not to look but my dumb subconscious sees words that possibly spoil the ending.
Please, Mr. Encrypted could you maybe pin a comment as a spoiler saver in the future to prevent unwanted oopsies like this?
I mean, I will ask everyone to put the words "spoiler alert" and a bunch of blank space at the top of their spoiler comments, but people don't usually listen.
I just started the story and don't want spoiler comments to "spoil" (imagine that?) my listening experience.
Please and thank you to everyone not to write spoilers without a bunch of blank space above them, so that the comment would have to be clicked on in order to see the spoiler.
It's not like I'm going anywhere near the comments section before I listen, but as soon as Android TH-cam app clicks on a video, there is one comment shown and so I got spoiled.
Happy Valentine's Day everyone, I'm not trying to be rude, but I saw words I didn't want to see immediately upon opening the video.
Thank you everyone and have happy Easter next year. I like 🐇
@@Boogie_the_cat I always pin a comment to all my videos, but it doesn't change the way TH-cam displays comments.
Ooh, just the ticket, Jasper, thank you......I hope you're surrounded by chocolates and flowers 😊❤
Just what I need! I'm at home, sick with a cold. I could use a creepy story from Jasper. Thanks!
Hope you feel better soon, and have plenty of tea and sympathy.
No fun having a bad cold without some perks.
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Thanks, Jasper, for that quite peculiar story. 🌹
Wow Jasper that was fantastic. It was really intriguing and suspenseful but also subtle. I really liked the characters, which you did great justice to! You really outdid yourself in the calibre of reading. Thank you, this made my evening!
🎶I'm in the mood for love, tra la la la (love that song).
❤️Happy Valentine's day everyone ❤️
Will listen to this tomorrow and post another love letter to please the algorithm
💝 Happy Valentine's Day.
I hope it lives up to expectations. 💐
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Aww. Same to you! 💐❤
What a brilliant surprise, you know how much i love Robert Aickman !, I'm going to save this for walking to work and back, I'm so happy.
Seriously, you are my very favorite TH-camr... JASPER! YOU ARE AMAZING. Why do I feel like you tube keeps hiding you from me. I can handle the spookies!
TH-cam doesn't like me for some reason. But at least it keeps the riff raff out 😉🤭
This was a fantastic reading of a wonderful, clever and thought provoking story. Truly a marriage made in heaven, thank you
Wow. Loved it. The suspense and dread rendered by Bobbie Aickman ,and your wonderful reading of it , was very enjoyable. Thankyou.
Great stuff! Thank you.
❤❤❤❤❤thanks Jasper 😎🙏☯️oh yea thanks from my lady too I suppose hahahaha
Excited to hear your voice again & a story you have chosen. Any of your own on the horizon?🪭🎁!
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I hope you are well & happy! Cheers!
Thank you for all your hard work, Jasper. I don't think I've come across this story before.
That was an excellent story. Uncanny and weird. Loved it!
Aickman at his very best, thank you so much
Thank you Jasper I enjoyed it very much, I keep intending to read more Aickman but I have a very large stack of to-be-read books and not enough time to read them and he's in the pile somewhere.
It indirectly reminded me of my favourite werewolf film Dog Soldiers which I intend to dig out of the dvd cupboard and watch while I'm working later.
Blimey, Jo! I haven't seen Dog Soldiers in yonks. Good one though. The same diector did "The Descent", one of my all time faves!
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Perfect timing! Thanks Jasper ❤❤❤
That was wonderful. Sound affects much appreciated. Thank you 😊
Excellent timing - I will really enjoy listening to this later. Thanks so much as always.
Happy Valentine’s Day Jasper! Thank you! 🐙
Back atcha! And thank you kindly for the Super Thanks 🙏
ALL RIGHT!!! I LOVE it! Thank u for all ur hard work & all the time u take just to entertain us. U are truly appreciated.
That was a chilling tale for sure 🤍
very frightening story; great reading
Bloody marvellous J xx👻
Yay! Spooktastic. I will listen to this tonight as I struggle with insomnia and snuggle with my widdle kibby.
I don't know if this story dog is black but the 'Black Dog' is a very common rural paranormal phenomenon, or at least it used to be.
IMO, all the folks today see "aliens" instead of ghosts, which would indicate that John Keel and Jacques Vallee were correct, and the 'extraterrestrial hypothesis' is false.
Which would make sense, as the government's Project Blue Book determined that UFOs are 'not of defense significance', which would also indicate that they have the same thoughts. A lotta conspiracy nuts will try and tell you that Blue Book determined UFOs don't exist, because they didn't actually read the Cobdon Report or Blue Book. These conspiracy nuts have some weird need for UFOs to be from space, and they and the History Channel willingly delude themselves and everyone they talk to.
Don't be like them. UFOs aren't from space, they are a paranormal phenomenon, which is trying to fool humans into wasting time looking for "aliens" instead of actually objectively trying to figure out what these forces are, everyone is looking for space aliens because they have some weird void in their lives, and they feel "aliens from space" are the higher power that they should believe in.
Stupid History Channel.
Take one day out and read the reports I Project Blue Book, and you'll see, the phenomena that these people report in the skies and the close encounters these folks report do not jive with the way extraterrestrials would act, but they fit in perfectly with the encounters mankind has been experiencing for hundreds of years: cryptids, faeries, shape shifters, elementals, and other incorporeal beings.
Perfect narration - and perfect writing. What a great match!
I really needed this today : )
A good story excellently well told.
I do hope I’m not being pedantic - and I also hope I’m correct in saying that the word used in describing the architecture of the house is ‘ogee’, with a soft g. It’s also a shape used in woodwork, such as on some skirting boards.
Thanks for the reading Jasper - I enjoyed it 🙏🏻
You are being pedantic, but that's fine 😉 although I have deleted videos before when I realised I misspoke or mispronounced something. Annoyingly, I doublechecked this word when I was recording (search "Ogee pronunciation") and the first thing that comes up is the Google audio that tells me it's "Oh Gee" (hard G) in UK, "Oh Jee" (soft) in America. Perhaps I was wrong to trust this, but that's what I went with 😔
@@EnCryptedHorror I was only thinking of you Jasper, because you never know, you may well come across the word in future readings. All the best 🙏🏻
No, absolutely. I get annoyed at myself. I originally instinctively said oh-jee, then doubted myself, Googled and got it wrong. Stuff like that can haunt me though 🫣
@@EnCryptedHorror stay away from the delete switch because it doesn’t detract from the story, or the reading of it, at all - it’s just that I am a woodworker and the word is very familiar to me ✌🏻
Very compelling. I probably missed it, but who was the almost dressed man?
Well...that's very much the question, isn't it? ...Adam?
Thanks!
Excellent narration and story, my only prior experience with Aickman was a television adaptation of his story (The Hospice). Spoilers Below:
The way the dog is described is really off-putting, I can't really picture the kind of dog it is in my mind, is it actually a dog or is it sick. It also has a suspicious intelligence. The part about the weird naked man and Mary being "interfered with" has me imagining something even more horrible than just being mauled by a mad dog. Then you have the ghost story feeling aspect of the story at the end.
Gosh I wonder about the significance of the naked man. I noticed it said that Mary was interfered with and bitten so badly - and the way it was phrased could have been a man or a dog - the dog and man are the same being perhaps. It leaves a fair few questions.
How did I not get the notification for this? 🤔
❤ 😊 Loved it!😊 🎉
AWESOME 👏🏼
I could have used a little love with this in the form of closed captioning. But since your voice is clear, I'm hoping I will only miss hear and there❤.
Are you struggling to hear? You should be able to turn the auto-generated captions on.
Interesting story and am I the only person who is unsure about the ambiguity ?
1. Mary died, as he was told. He revisits the house and sees a ghost of the dog and an adult ghostly Mary who the dog “claimed” as its a hellhound
2. Mary did not die, after his nervous attack the parents decided to take her away and kids make stuff up. It was laboured that he had nobody to confide in and as children we do create ideas about the world that can be wrong. So she lived and separated from him for the fact their infatuation was too intense. Years later she happens to live in that house as she is strong willed, rich as mentioned and liked the dog after the initial meeting. It’s just a very old dog or even a puppy of the same dog.
I am not sure which version I think is the case, Aickman does this so well in fact - he is also I superb on houses and architecture for sure.
If I had to guess I am going with the worse version - real life, no ghosts and childhood innocence. Mary is alive and living in the house she built on land they played as kids, and the Maryland is her little joke. I think this reading is worse than the other as its a betrayal and fits the facts as presented:
Their childhood crush
His illness caused by the idea he will lose her (because of her attention to the dog)
The way adults decide to deal with such a situation for best of both
The lurid teenager who says she was interfered with and the imagined naked man - all childhood imaginings
The separation again from another woman after his mother is lost
His guilt around his father being alone
This is all so realistic that it makes me wonder a lot - because such a vivid story seems very very realistic. I recall many things from childhood that were never explained and how I interpreted them then and how I would now. Spooky indeed - what do you think ?
Hi, I agree that, as usual with Aickman, this is ambiguous and I think (in this instance) a true story is obscured by the supernatural trappings. And I think the supernatural in his stories is nearly always representative of something psychological. I would go with your second reading, and mainly because I'm reading a biography of the author and it details a close relationship he had with a girl in his childhood and they lost touch and when they met up later I think he said she had "faded as all good things do" or something. So I definitely think this is Aickman exploring that terrain, a loss that I think was painful to him. But it's interesting I think that there are two equally unsatisfying paths a life can take. You either leave childhood and grow up to be...gaudy, tacky, "smaller but louder" (as Mary?)...or (like Hilary) stay in a state of arrested development which seems equally sad, if not more so. I find this story so wonderful to examine from different angles.
@@EnCryptedHorror thanks for the response.
For me as a professional reader (English lit degree) I think of course both are valid. Aickman was clearly a troubled soul and his female relationships complex.
It’s interesting as this seemed as I mention very realistic and crowded with the child like terrors expressed powerfully. Fae land, maybe there’s no gate, scary fall, lack of trust, adult words from a child’s lips.
I was sent to boarding school at age ten and had a dreadful time. I recall one night after we tried to do an ouija board but got frightened. I lay in my bunk alone, frightened to death, crying silently for fear of discovery, praying to Jesus to help me as I was terrified and had no living adult to confide in. That night I can say some part of me broke and will never be fixed. I lost my innocent trust in the human race and saw the world for what it is after that with the covers pulled back.
I could go on but won’t as it’s trauma dumping and that wasn’t my intent - my intent was to show that key moments decide as you indicate how we will “be”.
I am naturally trusting, loving, friendly and communicative - plus my two sons never went to boarding school ! Plus they have never been scared for their souls and at such a tender age, plus I also hope never been groped by an older boy in a camp bed.
The same year coincidentally I started losing my vision and needed glasses. I would lie in the bed covering each eye intermittently to test if I could read the poster on the wall.
The world can be a truly terrifying place for the young with a few mundane things alone. I recognise the boy Hilary, sensitive and crying over his correctly anticipated loss of his crush.
I think life takes us on many paths but I still wish I could visit the lad in the dormitory and give him some kind word at least. He did nothing to deserve his torture and for one so young to lose hope is a crying shame. I decided ever after that the world is heartless, it deserves everything it gets for even existing in that way.
Really evocative story and I agree completely with the ideas you suggest - thanks.
Perfect
What a dog gone good story ... woof woof ....Grrrrrr🐕🐶
bet Ol' Shug could take him... ; D
wat a unremitting freudian nightmare, holy crap 😱😱😱 who hurt u, aickman?? 🐶🐶🐶 "there cant always be a fence" brrrrr ☠️☠️☠️ mad twisted valentines day choice jasper ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Couldn't get past the werthers voice sorry .
A bit too Paddington bear for me . Wrong voice for subject
Piss off then.
Odd and disturbing. My kind of Valentine story.🫣🤫