For this series I am reading to you the short story The Dead Smile by f. Marion Crawford. This story was written in 1911. With a ghastly banshee, a cadaver that's won’t stay put, and an infectious and sinister smile, this eerie novel is a masterpiece of the macabre. This is chapter one.

Credits

Host: Amy Elle

Produced by: Amy for Collected Sounds

Story: The Dead Smile by F. Marion Crawford (public domain).

Theme music by Cannelle Elanian, written especially for Collected Sounds. https://www.patreon.com/melissaoliveri

Story background music is Bach’s Book1: Prelude and Fugue No 8 in E Flat Minor. By Carlos Gardels http://www.carlosgardels.com/

Scent of the Day: Smoke and Decay by https://sucreabeille.com/

Information on F. Marion Crawford

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Marion_Crawford

Other books by this author at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1316

If you have any other suggestions for stories for me to read to you, please let me know. You can reach me at [email protected] or you can leave a message or a voice mail at https://www.podpage.com/collected-sounds/