In 1690, the county of Suffolk is wracked with a fear of witches - but when Mrs Mothersole is accused of witchcraft by the lord of Castringham Hall and hanged for her supposed crimes was she really a witch? And what was the meaning of her final words: "There will be guests at the hall?" 

Jasper L'Estrange reads another short story for EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast - bringing tales of supernatural horror and suspense to life with compelling narration, music and sound effects.

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About the episode:

"The Ash Tree" by M.R. James was first collected in Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (Edward Arnold, 1904).

Theme music:

The Black Waltz by Scott Buckley | www.scottbuckley.com.au Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Incidental music:

Pagan Cross by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com  (https://www.silvermansound.com/free-music/pagan-cross) (Used with the  following licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

This House by Kevin MacLeod

Sound effect attributions:

https://freesound.org/people/juskiddink/sounds/65795/*

https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/352513/*

https://freesound.org/people/straget/sounds/419504/*

https://freesound.org/people/straget/sounds/419504/*

https://freesound.org/people/tosha73/sounds/530920/*

https://freesound.org/people/j_o_j/sounds/363016/*

https://freesound.org/people/Keith%20Selmes/sounds/397357/*

*All used with the following licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

All other sound effects sourced at Freesound.org

The recording was created using Audacity and BandLab. Podcast hosted by Anchor.

COMING SOON: a special EnCrypted episode - "An Edwardian EVIL DEAD II"

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