A Dead Man’s Bargain: One from the smoking room, narrated by Harold, a fellow who's fine head of brown hair has turned white through the experience. Rueben Chelston, mad church organist, takes to attending spiritualist meetings. A visitor from the other side promises to teach him "such a melody the world has never yet heard", and possibly, "so stupendously unearthly as to be unfit for human ears!"

The following music was used for this media project:

Music: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Kevin MacLeod
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Music: Unseen Horrors by Kevin MacLeod
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Music: Ghost Processional by Kevin MacLeod
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Long Synopsis:

Our narrator tells the story of how one foggy night he sets out to post a letter at a pillar box at the end of his street but, colliding with another pedestrian, he takes a detour and enters the wrong house. He's about to sneak back out when he hears a scream and goes to down to the basement to witness the unthinkable. 

The following music was used for this media project is by Kevin McLeod: 

Music: Ghost Processional by Kevin MacLeod
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Music: Gathering Darkness by Kevin MacLeod
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Music: Day of Chaos by Kevin MacLeod
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This classic ghost story by Bram Stoker, author of DRACULA, is about a student who arrives in the small town of Benchurch looking for a quiet place to stay while preparing for his examination. Making light of local superstitions, he rents an old mansion, filled with rats, once owned by a notorious hanging judge.  He soon learns why the locals fear the Judge's House.

Listening time: 46min

Narration, live sound effects and editing by Nathan Schulz

Listen via a gramophone, as our storyteller (vocal Tahlia Jade) tells of her cycling holidaying in France, a deserted chateau and a supernatural coat.

This ghost story was first performed in the Anywhere Festival in 2015 as part an anthology of ghost stories, and one of The Drama Merchant's favourites. He recreated it during the lockdowns of 2020 and here is it is again for your listening pleasure  

This story is written by A.E.D. Smith & read by Tahlia Jade
Sound effects by The Drama Merchant
Music by Kevin Mcleod - Incompetech

In this Christmas ghost story from 2020, A woman (vocal by Cat Deller) tells her story of an encounter with a ghost (vocal by Sean Miller) in a deserted old lodging house in the middle of London years ago. She was told that a woman had been murdered there before she agreed as a "psychical researcher" to spend a night in the old building.

Algernon Blackwood wrote over 200 ghost stories. His ghost stories fall into what is usually called weird fiction.

All sound effects created by Nathan Schulz aka The Drama Merchant
Music by Kevin McLeod