In my 20’s, I was obsessed with LeFanu’s “Uncle Silas” and now, decades later, “Carmilla”. Thank you for that!

Love a good vampire story, especially when it goes into detail about the monster's method of picking targets. She definitely had a type.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

I’ll enjoy it again but only because of the quality of the narration. This whole bedtime stories for grown-ups development is a really precious thing I feel. Thanks again, Mr T

@yesterdayitrained

4 ай бұрын

Agree!

This has to be one of the creepiest stories ever. My favorite of LeFanu's for sure. Many of his stories are hard for me to get through, making them perfect to fall asleep to. ❤

@chrisbetsy898

3 ай бұрын

Well-said. I've had the same experience.

Igen, igen. Masterful, elegant. Much needed and appreciated. Tony, Thank you!

Really enjoyed this story and the excellent narrator.

When I read Carmilla years ago it struck me as almost comically melodramatic. Your narration has erased that impression so completely that I'm scared to go to bed now. I'll fold laundry and possibly make a cherry pie to normalize my "frighted" nerves. I was exhausted when I started listening, thinking I'd go to sleep in half an hour or so. It's now midnight 45 and I suspect sleep won't come until dawn, you know, when it's safe. Thanks a bunch, Tony, no cherry pie for you, unless you can materialize across the pond to my hall bedroom. Omg! Don't, not tonight. 😮

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

I would really like some cherry pie too.

This is just what I needed. I raining here so this is a perfect way to spend the afternoon Thank you Tony

I love this story and the movie version from the 1970s with Ingrid Pitt, the Vampire Lovers. Great narration Tony!

Loved the last one. I love James' New England settings in his stories, hoping for a Jasper collaboration again soon 👍

@lunablue745

4 ай бұрын

Jasper the dog ?!🐕

@LucicPower

4 ай бұрын

@@lunablue745 jasper lestrange

Tony you have a lovely voice,thank you.

@ClassicGhost

2 ай бұрын

thank you

This is one of my favorite vampire stories. Well read!

@ClassicGhost

3 ай бұрын

thank you

A masterpiece! Absolutely brilliant! I am humbled by your gift of narration, which you give so freely. Thank you Mr. Walker- we deserve thee not!

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

I read this story as a teenaged girl, and loved it! So glad that it's back. Thank you. 🧛🏻‍♀️

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Very welcome

Love your readings, you’re one of the greatest voices in youtube. Thank you so much 🙏 cheers

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Much appreciated

Thank you, dear Tony, for such high-caliber content. I love your work. ❤

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

@yesterdayitrained

4 ай бұрын

@@ClassicGhostOurs, I believe!

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

@@yesterdayitrained :))

Thank you! wonderful narration.... love this story!!

Beautiful voice to listen to, very relaxing and soothing. Thank you!

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Very kind

How wonderful, I'm excited about this story, thank you Tony, I hope you're well 🙏 💛 💚

One of my favorite recordings from your channel. I really like listening this one before bed. I didn't notice a missing chapter in the other uploads, but I guess we'll see.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

It was chapter 12. I've also put the chapter timings in this one.

Such a beautiful narration. I needed this today. Thank you Tony 💜

Carmilla is my favourite vampire tale, or was until I read John Metcalfe's novella, The Feasting Dead, yesterday. Pleased to be able to listen to this again, though.

There’s some surprising foreshadowing within their first interaction that I don’t recall in other narrations of this story; I was rather shocked at Carmilla’s boldness of strange emotional “overcoming”. It is rather odd & so naive. 🕷️🕸️ It makes me wonder if this is a newer embellished version, or the actual text & I just don’t remember it being so obvious & disturbing- so much talk of death! A lovely, eloquent narration, once again! The image is a perfect image. Thank you. 🪭🧛🏻‍♀️🐾🦷🫀 P.S. I’m very interested in the analysis❣️

@yesterdayitrained

4 ай бұрын

Yes- the image is perfect.

Ditto, Tony. Much needed. Thank you!!!!!!

Ahhh...love this tale so much!❤

What a treat to see this return ❤!

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

I'd left out chapter 12. Imagine.

@ainemoroney9965

4 ай бұрын

@@ClassicGhost never noticed 😅🤣🤣

Just as gripping this time around. Love the story, the expressive,vivid , elegant narration and very entertaining voices. Le Fanu is one of my absolute favorites. I bought his "Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery" over my ever faithful local web-bookshop. The back cover states "This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it today." True, very true. But that is not why I bought it. I bought it not for "scholarly" purposes, but for the sheer desire to be entertained. Why use one word where ten will do?! Pour on the adjectives in complicated sentences!! Right now I just finished the first story in the book ,"The Watcher". Perhaps you are right, as you pointed out about another author of the time--can't remember which one-that no modern day editor would let him get away with the ending. But who cares? I vividly see him before me, sitting in the Spirit World, dressed in "period" costume, shaking with laughter. "Where will said editor be in 200 years? I`M still here!!!" Thanks for introducing us, Tony. J.S. and I have become true mates!☺👍👍👍

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it. J S was very good. Green Tea is still very odd though

@martiwilliams4592

4 ай бұрын

I meant, of course, " A modern editor WOUDN`T let him get away with his endings", who cares? His Green Tea has put me off real green tea for good. J S's mother probably made him drink it as a kid or something. For his health. Off to listen to your great narration of Green Tea with new ears. Thanks for all the hard work you do for all the hard work you do for us, Tony!💐💐💐@@ClassicGhost

Wow! Another great reading! Thanks!

I’m so thankful for the soothing narration of these unique stories. 😊

Sorry ,,I am not ever Consice!! Thank you Tony,, Another 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Narration!! We really enjoyed *The Casket* written by your good self! I hit the Like Button and Shared it with Mr D. ... XxX...

Fantastic story and narration! I love this story so much. I listened to the previous recording and did not even notice Chapter 12 was missing. LOL! I wondered if I should only listen to Chapter 12 or listen to the whole thing? Easy answer for me. I listened to this twice in the last day to catch everything. I am glad I did! I love the artwork for the story. As with everything else, it fits the story perfectly. The artwork for your previous recording is excellent as well. Thanks for recording this classic!

That was excellent!

Mate I love your voice, as a listener to a million stories never have I heard such beautiful vocal spelling. If You could vocalise an Argus catalogue it would be a best seller!! I can’t wait to listen to a million more of your storytelling.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Thanks . There’s a few on here now !

u are the best. pls never stop making these

@ClassicGhost

3 ай бұрын

+@laylat9774 Thank you. i’ll try

Excellent all around!

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Thank you very much

Wonderful job!!! Listened to Carmilla on KZread since I had it downloaded. I'm guessing you also like old horror movies? The anagrams vampire used reminded me of.Lon Chaney Jr's Count Alucard 🦇🧛‍♂️

❤❤❤ thank you, kindly

The hot and sexy Ingrid Pitt and Kate O' Mara were in a steamy British Hammer production of this novella.

Thank you so much !

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

My favorite line from when I read it years ago. General Spielsdorf: “She was standing, near the door, a little group surrounding her, all looking at her with faces of unspeakable terror. I, too, had seen her, and in the forest, far away from the schloss. I am resolved to trace her, though she should lead me to the mausoleum of the Karnsteins. There, with my sword, I clove her skull in twain, and beheld it reeking with blood.”

Brilliant book ❤ thanks for sharing this

Alright, Tony. I am back, and I am a Vampire!

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Welcome back and thank you.

@normaemanuel4975

4 ай бұрын

@@ClassicGhost Thank you!

This was as wonderful as coffee and chocolate!☕🍫 Damn! I want some right now!!😛

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Please do.

Loved this one! Some of the chapter endings felt clipped, but otherwise fantastic! Thank you from Manitoba, Canada!

Wow! Great story, very creepy! Well read as always! 🧛🏻‍♂️ 🩸

@ClassicGhost

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening

Thank you Tony!!❤👍 Another 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Narration of another 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Choice of Ghostly Tale of Terror!! My friend, Jasper is now Convinced he's really Famous!! I very much enjoyed Your Own 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Writing,. And also the your 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟Narration of those!! *The Casket* is Fantastic!!. (🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟X10!!) And very beautifully Done!! I really must apologize for not 'getting' the full Confusion of the protagonist at first!! My excuse would have been to explain that I'm still not 100%, after the change of Medication and the Allergic reaction. ( I had to Yeet them back to the GP!!) So, I'm probably much more confused than Mr Armstrong himself!! Jasper barked out, ~ "That's the Truth!" ~ Adding ~"She hasn't quite grasped that,, of course I'm really very Famous now It was only a matter of time!"! (The Silly Woman!! ) Namasté 🙏🕊️💞 Andréa and Jasper. ...XxX ..

Fantastic

It’s great to see you have a channel assistant.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Do I?

@amandine512

4 ай бұрын

@@ClassicGhost My mistake I guess.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

@@amandine512 i’m interested though. What made you think that? have i been hacked

@amandine512

4 ай бұрын

@@ClassicGhost In the description of The Space Casket where it says “Exclusive videos for you!” The next line has a quotation mark at the beginning that I assume was copy pasted in. I assumed someone wrote it for you as it doesn’t feel like how you would write or speak. I didn’t want to draw attention to it but since you asked.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

I see . You are right but it wasn’t a human

To me, this story, significantly earlier than Dracula, marks a liminal moment in English literature, or at least one of them, bridging the gap between the folkloric and literary vampire. In many ways, it's a milestone, if not directly in LGBTQIA literature, then certainly in literature that moves beyond purely heteronormative narratives. And it's always been one of my favorites

@buckfaststradler4629

4 ай бұрын

I suppose what you mean is the story is a bit lesbotic !

@carltaylor6452

4 ай бұрын

It might be a milestone in LGB literature, but to add the TQIA is anachronistic.

@yesterdayitrained

4 ай бұрын

I don’t agree or disagree with what you wrote- but I will say that is very much your perspective. This story, ostentatiously involving a romance between 2 young women, isn’t really about that at all. It’s is about vampires, their charms and manipulations, their many ways of finding and chasing and killing their prey. Not true romance, but bloodlust. Is it a *presentation* of romance between 2 same sex individuals? Yes. Is that what the story is about? No. I’m not sure you want this story to be in the category you’ve put it in, but I understand your pov as well.

I don't understand what the author meant by an amphibeous nature. I looked it up but the explanations didn't seem to fit for me. Any thoughts?

@ClassicGhost

2 ай бұрын

Possibly meaning 'of two natures'

❤😊 LIKE TI LOVE TI ❤️

🥳😎🥳

Sorry, but it sounds like Ch. 10 "Bereaved" got cut off early. Luckily, I don't think anything important got skipped. It's always something with these longer uploads, isn't it?

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Multiple issues here. my last editing program Hindenberg has started inserting noise artefacts which they aren’t addressing so i’m trawling around for an alternative. tried logic pro (for music) Pro Tools (won’t install on my computer) Adobe Audition- the best but expensive and a resource hog . so gone back to trusty Reaper but when he move files it squashes them and adds fades. last problem os my famous lack of attention to detail !

@KristinChoruby

4 ай бұрын

@@ClassicGhost So much for computer programs making our lives easier, huh? You have my sympathies and my thanks for putting up with all that to share your fantastic narrations with us ❤

The end of chapters 4 and 10 are tructuatied mid-sentence. Just a heads up.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

bollocks

I think Le Fanu was Irish as was Bram Stoker but I dont know if they were around at same time.I wonder if they knew each other.That would be a great dinner party to attend.

@ClassicGhost

2 ай бұрын

They did. le fanu was older and Stoker worked for him for a bit AFAIK

@morganniciomhair8284

2 ай бұрын

@ClassicGhost THANK YOU.I HAVE A BRAIN INJURY AND LEGALLY BLIND AFTER ACCIDENT.SO I CANT UNDERSTAND READING ANYMORE.I REALLY LIKE TO LISTEN TO YOUR STORY TELLING.IN IRELAND STORY TELLING IS IN OUR D N A !!THANKS FOR THE INFORMATION ABOUT LE FANU AND MR STOKER.I MUST RESEARCH.KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK.I APPRECIATE YOU AND WHAT YOU DO.

Not getting my notifications so I just switched them off then back on lubetube is up to their B.S. again

I fell asleep the first time I started watching this, so tried again, completely lost interest. Long and drawn out.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Not everything is for everyone of course. Hope you find something you like

Camilla 😂