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

“I tell you that vampirism is by no means extinct now. An outbreak of it certainly occurred in India a year or two ago.”

“Every guest on his arrival in the house is told that the long gallery must not be entered after nightfall on any pretext whatever.”

“In the shadows in the corner of my room there sits something more substantial than a shadow.”

“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.”

“An odd uneasiness came over me, for I had been so certain that the house was uninhabited.”

“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…”

“Soft as the fall of a single snow-flake, fear settled on his heart…”

“Find it and have it buried, and then I shall be free from its dreadful presence.”

“The only live thing that lurked here was that monstrous, mysterious creature of evil.”

“Just room for one inside, sir…”