The resident of a rundown boarding house becomes intrigued when a familiar face comes seeking a room. The man has returned from South America with a strange story and even stranger cargo. But will it be his undoing…?

This original recording is an audio presentation by Jasper L'Estrange for EnCrypted Horror. “The Black Stone Statue” by Mary Elizabeth Counselman (1937).

You can hear me discuss this story by becoming a channel member and listening to episode 13 of The EnCrypted Postmortem. (Due to various issues episodes 12 and 13 will be delayed.)

NOTE: My recordings are intended to be an immersive experience featuring music and sound effects. If you don’t like these elements, there are plenty of narration channels that don’t have them and they’d love to hear from you. This is a hobby/side hustle. I’m an amateur at sound recording and production but I do my best to make something listenable. I do voices to differentiate between characters but I’m not a professional voice actor or narrator. Some of these stories are old and contain words and attitudes you might not like. They do not necessarily represent the views of…well…me. Sometimes a pet dog or cat will die. Horribly.

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About the story:

"The Black Stone Statue” by Mary Elizabeth Counselman. First published in Weird Tales, December 1937.

Music credits:

Music used : " THE LAST LETTER " composed and produced by "Vivek Abhishek"

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“The Land of Phantoms” by Kevin McLeod https://filmmusic.io/song/3966-land-of-phantoms

“The Turning” by Tim Kulig https://filmmusic.io/song/9333-the-turning?lang=de

Sound effects: All sound effects sourced at Freesound*.

https://freesound.org/people/Jovica/sounds/45440/**

*Used with the following licence: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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

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