The Ghost Stories of E F Benson, read by Richard Crowest

By Richard Crowest

What's The Ghost Stories of E F Benson, read by Richard Crowest about?

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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The Ghost Stories of E F Benson, read by Richard Crowest episodes:

12.24.2022
Ghost Stories read by Richard Crowest
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10.30.2022
James Lamp
“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.”
06.24.2022
The Step
“With a sudden sinking of his heart, he heard behind him the step which he thought he had silenced for ever.”
12.24.2021
The Flint Knife
“I went to sleep at once, and from dreamlessness awoke suddenly to a consciousness of terror and imminent peril.”
10.31.2021
Outside the Door
“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.”
06.20.2021
The House with the Brick-Kiln
“At that moment I saw the face of Fear; my mouth went dry, and I heard my heart leaping and cracking in my throat.”
04.04.2021
The Shuttered Room
“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.”
12.24.2020
In the Tube
“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:...
10.31.2020
Gavon’s Eve
“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…”
06.20.2020
The Temple
“I am sure that no phantom of the dead that die not could have evoked so unnerving a terror.”
03.22.2020
Mrs. Amworth
“I tell you that vampirism is by no means extinct now. An outbreak of it certainly occurred in India a year or two ago.”
12.24.2019
How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery
“Every guest on his arrival in the house is told that the long gallery must not be entered after nightfall on any pretext whatever.”
10.31.2019
The Thing in the Hall
“In the shadows in the corner of my room there sits something more substantial than a shadow.”
07.02.2019
The Sanctuary
“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.”
10.31.2018
A Tale of an Empty House
“An odd uneasiness came over me, for I had been so certain that the house was uninhabited.”
12.24.2017
Machaon
“At that moment the memory of the séance the evening before, about which up till now I had somehow felt distrustful and suspicious, passed into the realm of sober fact…”
10.31.2017
The Dance
“Soft as the fall of a single snow-flake, fear settled on his heart…”
10.31.2017
Spinach
“Find it and have it buried, and then I shall be free from its dreadful presence.”
12.24.2016
“And No Bird Sings”
“The only live thing that lurked here was that monstrous, mysterious creature of evil.”
10.31.2016
The Bus Conductor
“Just room for one inside, sir…”
10.31.2015
Monkeys
“A-pen-ara curses any who desecrates or meddles with her bones…”
08.01.2014
The Room in the Tower
“Jack will show you your room. I have given you… the room in the tower…”
12.23.2013
Between the Lights
“In the paralysis of that fear I tried to scream, but not a sound could I utter.”
10.30.2013
At the Farmhouse
“The thing seemed scarcely human at all; it was a monster from which he had delivered himself...”
10.08.2013
The Face
“A dream hasn’t anything real about it, has it? It doesn’t mean anything?”
05.29.2013
Caterpillars
“I think that before I opened the pill-box I expected something of the sort which I found in it.”
12.23.2012
The Other Bed
“I knew I was not alone in the room. There was something there, something silent as yet, and as yet invisible. But it was there.”
10.31.2012
Negotium Perambulans
“One of the things invisible, of the dark powers, leaped into light, and I saw it with my eyes…”
10.31.2012
Negotium Perambulans (live)
Recorded in front of an audience at E F Benson’s home, Lamb House in Rye.
10.10.2012
The Man Who Went Too Far
"I can't go back now. I wouldn't if I could; not a step would I retrace…"
08.16.2012
The Cat
It is not only the dead who haunt the living.
05.25.2012
“And the Dead Spake...”
"Surely this is the strangest manner of song ever yet heard on the earth, this melody from the brain of the dead..."
12.18.2011
Naboth's Vineyard
Something has come in to the house. Come in out of the rain...

What's The Ghost Stories of E F Benson, read by Richard Crowest about?

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The Ghost Stories of E F Benson, read by Richard Crowest episodes:

Ghost Stories read by Richard Crowest

James Lamp

The Step

The Flint Knife

Outside the Door

The House with the Brick-Kiln

The Shuttered Room

In the Tube

Gavon’s Eve

The Temple

Mrs. Amworth

How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery

The Thing in the Hall

The Sanctuary

A Tale of an Empty House

Machaon

The Dance

Spinach

“And No Bird Sings”

The Bus Conductor

Monkeys

The Room in the Tower

Between the Lights

At the Farmhouse

The Face

Caterpillars

The Other Bed

Negotium Perambulans

Negotium Perambulans (live)

The Man Who Went Too Far

The Cat

“And the Dead Spake...”

Naboth's Vineyard