An occasional series of readings of ghost stories by a writer now better known for his social satire. Introduced and read by Richard Crowest
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‘Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum.’ A series of professionally produced readings of the Reginald stories by Saki (H H Munro). View the world of Edwardian society through the sartorially adapted eye of Saki's solipsistic anti-hero.
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A series of professionally produced readings of the final collection of short stories by Saki (H H Munro), who was killed on the Somme in November 1916.
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‘We are merely trammelled by the ordinary decent conventions of civilised society.’ A series of professionally produced readings of the penultimate collection of satirical short stories by Saki (H H Munro).
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‘Never speak ill of society. Society is perfectly capable of doing that for itself...’ A series of professionally produced readings of the Chronicles of Clovis. View the world of Edwardian society through the jaundiced eye of Clovis Sangrail, Saki's deliciously louche anti-hero.
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“I'm delighted to announce a new series of ghost story readings from E F Benson and other authors. Search YouTube for Ghost Stories read by Richard Crowest.”By Richard Crowest
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“I woke again with the sense that there was something creeping up to the house, like the fog that was now thick outside my window, and seeking admittance.”By Richard Crowest
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“With a sudden sinking of his heart, he heard behind him the step which he thought he had silenced for ever.”By Richard Crowest
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The East Wing: A Tragedy in the Manner of the Discursive Dramatists
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13:50“How well he reads our sex,” murmured Mrs Gramplain, “and yet how badly he plays bridge!”By Richard Crowest
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“I went to sleep at once, and from dreamlessness awoke suddenly to a consciousness of terror and imminent peril.”By Richard Crowest
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Mrs. Pendercoet’s Lost Identity: A Tragedy of the Chelsea Arts Club Ball
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5:50“There is one character in fiction one hears no end of, but no one has ever seen her represented in portrait or in the flesh.”By Richard Crowest
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“Once again Duncombe experienced the uncomfortable certainty of being face to face with a tragedy whose nature he could not guess at.”By Richard Crowest
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“Terror, that was slowly becoming a little more definite, terror of some dark and violent deed that was momently drawing nearer to me held me in its vice.”By Richard Crowest
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“At that moment I saw the face of Fear; my mouth went dry, and I heard my heart leaping and cracking in my throat.”By Richard Crowest
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“All was not well with the house: in some strange manner the shadow that had come between her closed eyes and the sun as she sat on the garden-bench had entered, and was establishing itself more firmly day by day.”By Richard Crowest
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“The camel is old—horribly, mustily old—and it is difficult to conceive that it has ever been anything else.”By Richard Crowest
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“I could not stir, I could not speak. I could only strain my ears for the inaudible and my eyes for the unseen, while the cold wind from the very valley of the shadow of death streamed over me.” (Note: this story features a suicide.)By Richard Crowest
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“Then suddenly I saw something black move in the dimness in front of me, and against the grey foam rose up first the head, then the shoulders, and finally the whole figure of a woman…”By Richard Crowest
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“I am sure that no phantom of the dead that die not could have evoked so unnerving a terror.”By Richard Crowest
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“‘I laid a trap for you; I told you that I had never met Mrs. Saltpen-Jago. As a matter of fact I met her at lunch on Monday last. She is a pronounced blonde.’”By Richard Crowest
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“‘It seems there is just one way out of the tangle. He’s inclined to be amorous.’”By Richard Crowest
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A Housing Problem – The Solution of an Insoluble Dilemma
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9:43“‘We can’t keep shifting Mr. Chermbacon backwards and forwards as though he was the regulator of an erratic clock.’”By Richard Crowest
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“I tell you that vampirism is by no means extinct now. An outbreak of it certainly occurred in India a year or two ago.”By Richard Crowest
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“‘As your mother says, you are a mass of selfishness.’”By Richard Crowest
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“Yealmton and his wife waged a politely reticent warfare; it was a struggle which Thirza knew she must ultimately win, because she was fighting for existence.”By Richard Crowest
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“How long would she struggle in those unfathomed weed-grown depths before she lay as picturesquely still as the drowned heroine of her tale-weavings?”By Richard Crowest
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“Every guest on his arrival in the house is told that the long gallery must not be entered after nightfall on any pretext whatever.”By Richard Crowest
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“In the shadows in the corner of my room there sits something more substantial than a shadow.”By Richard Crowest
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“In Burma it is possible to be a politician without ceasing to be a philosopher.”By Richard Crowest
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“Most of those terms are probably wrong, but a little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.”By Richard Crowest
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“Then the sense of nightmare began, for his two companions, gripping him tightly, pulled him along towards it, and he struggled with them knowing there was something terrible within.”By Richard Crowest
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“To the average modern Russian a desire to visit Pskoff is an inexplicable mental freak on the part of a foreigner who wishes to see something of the country he is living in.”By Richard Crowest
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“It is, indeed, no small triumph to have combined the untrammelled liberty of primeval savagery with the luxury which only a highly developed civilization can command.”By Richard Crowest
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“Bidderdale’s attention was caught by an item on a loose sheet of agenda paper: ‘Vote on account of special Hells.’”By Richard Crowest
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“It takes all sorts to make a sex.”By Richard Crowest
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“The lark would suddenly dash skyward and pour forth a song of ecstatic jubilation that sounded horribly forced and insincere.”By Richard Crowest
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The Square Egg - A Badger’s-Eye View of the War Mud in the Trenches
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14:01“Much more to be thought about than the enemy over yonder or the war all over Europe is the mud of the moment.”By Richard Crowest
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