Greg, I very much appreciate your “taking such a measured pace”. I thought your pace was perfect for this particular story which needs a foreboding tone. Your usual pace for the Holmes stories wouldn’t have been right for telling this story. I agree with your other fans who say you’re a masterful storyteller. We are all so delighted when you find another Doyle story to share. Thank you

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

I do rush a bit sometimes. Some people think taking your time is a bit self indulgent, to which I say: yes probably. Cheers!

I will most definitely need to re-listen. Thank you for these stories by Doyle. I am growing a greater appreciation for his short-story writing because of you.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Thanks JT B Glad to hear it!

An absolute creepy gem of a story, brilliantly read. Thank you.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Good description. Thank you!

ANOTHER MASTERFUL PRODUCTION! You are a gift to literature and humanity.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Ha! Kind of you, AP. Thank you.

Masterfully read. The speed, pauses, phrasing, all pure pleasure to which to listen. Memorable actually. Bravo.

The first five minutes are pure patriotic poetry, it's a time I should have been born in.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Yes. It's an extraordinary bit of writing and links to the meat of the story very well.

@helenamcginty4920

Жыл бұрын

You would have had to be born at least middle class and English otherwise you would probably not have enjoyed life.

@markswanson1564

Жыл бұрын

“… pure patriotic poetry”?? More a rebuke of the excesses of empire & colonialism! Reminiscent of S Holmes The Creeping Man where Dr. Watson, the mangled Afghan War vet, writes forlornly of his return to “ … London- that great cesspool to which all the idlers and loungers of the Empire are drawn.” ACD’s excellent yet under-appreciated writing with touches of Moby Dick & spiritualism.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

@@markswanson1564 Interesting how it can be read both ways, pulls you in both directions.

@gregfam6250

Жыл бұрын

You took the words right out of my mind.

So impressive, eloquent. This confirms what a gifted writer ACD was. I hope you can find more samples of his writing. I should add that you spoke/recreated the story convincingly that I was startled to realize that the images I saw were not of some external source but my imagination awoken by your masterful presentation.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

That's a great comment. Appreciate it, quick jumping foxes!

I don't use ChatGPT much but the first 5 minutes prompted me to ask "Why was English writing in Conan Doyle's day so much more beautiful than it is today? "

@evelanpatton

Жыл бұрын

What did it say, I’m interested in CHATGPT’s reasoning for the more verbose & articulate writers for a well educated & vocabulary-rich audience. I am reminded these were published in Magazines, well before radio, television, & computer technology, so that COMMUNICATION was in affect part of how you presented yourself for entertainment- for instance, letters between friends & family were regularly exchanged, and one’s writing skills exercised.

@electrictofumuffins6384

7 ай бұрын

Yes, imagine how they "made love'.

Greg. You absolutely smashed this one. The narration was measured and perfect. Doyle's story had me transfixed, and as for the climax.... pure brilliance. ❤

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

'The learned have of late looked into the matter, and have even labelled it with a name, but what can we know more of it save that a poor stricken soul, when hard-pressed and driven, can shoot across the earth some ten thousand-mile-long picture of its trouble to the mind which is most akin to it.' It says so much about Doyle's talents that he can take a fairly conventional ghost story plot and make it into such a powerful tale of the uncanny. That final twist! Chilling, and brilliant.

This story was new to me & well narrated by Greg. It left perfectly hideous shivers long after the final words. Appreciation.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Hideous shivers, eh? How gratifying!

@rameyzamora1018

Жыл бұрын

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Hideous shivers - the worst kind!

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Yes. The very worst.

Yikes! Glad I caught this during the day! 😀 Beautifully done, as always. Thank you and all the best to you, Greg -

@carrie5980

Жыл бұрын

I wish I had caught this during the day. Three am for me. 👻

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Bad luck!

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

It's one of his creepier ones, certainly.

A stunningly brilliant reading Mr. Greg.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Darrell. 👍🏼

Wonderfully read and presented. Thank you for continuing to bring us these stories!

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening, Ben. Kind of you to say so.

What a strange story. Disturbing, but without an intrigue, just an account of a tragedy. Thank you for your hard work though!

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

It's thought provoking - more to it than meets the eye, I thought.

What a creepy story! The whole presentation is utterly superb. Mr. Conan Doyle! Ahhhhh!

Kudos to this fine performance. Sir Arthur would be proud.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Cheers EnTeaJay

Still catching up. This surely was a difficult wrestling match with the words and cadence. Excellent oratory and presentation. Whew... Mahe Ohna ✌️ Favour Greg and ALL

Never heard of this one before. Time to get aquainted with it 😊

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Indeed!

Great story, thanks for the audio.

Superb, thank you 😊

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, Dj K

Thank you very much for performing giving me thus the chance of listening!

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it! Cheers Elke.

@elkeschimpgen3725

Жыл бұрын

I wish I was creative enough to add something new to all the positive feedback given here and in your other recordings. Sadly, I'm not, so let me just emphazise that they are profoundly true. And, your good sense of humour makes the comment section great fun to read. :o)

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Ha! I do have to restrain myself in the comments section! Creative/creativity has lost the positive meaning it may once have had: just expressing oneself honestly (or as honestly as one can on the internet) is a much better aim/prize. Maybe.

@elkeschimpgen3725

Жыл бұрын

Well, as usual everything is a matter of definition. And creativity to me still means to invent something original that pleases people or challenges their thougt process. In this respect, internet can bite me ...

Thanks! Not always able to give, but you’ve been with me, often nightly, for over 5 years; I love your cadence, tonality, & eloquence. Your exceptionally professional productions are greatly appreciated. 🪭 I love the Victorian circa writer’s that you choose to present to us. The vocabulary has oft brought me to my dictionary. 🎁🪆📚📕❣️ ❤️‍🔥📜🖋️.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

6 ай бұрын

Thank you Evelyn - very kind of you! All the best - Greg.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

6 ай бұрын

Wrong spelling. Evelan!

Beautifully read, as always. Thank you for the wonderful story.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it, Vicki F.

Thanks! 🎉❤

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Cheers!

💕💓 💓💕 🌺 thank you Gregg

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Nancy!

Eerie, but first and foremost very, very sad. Listening to the first paragraphs, I had to keep checking to remind myself that this was Conan Doyle, not one of Kipling's short stories (which are also often dark and sad, though more rarely supernatural). Thank you for uploading.

Brilliantly written and executed. Thank you!

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, Steven.

Strong, clear voice. Thank you🎉

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening Rosanna

Thanks for typing out the quote & rehearsing. It would be a dog to read cold.

Thanks Greg hope you're enjoying your blackbirds 👍

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

I am!

It must have been a ghost because when you are buried at sea, they will sew you up in a sail cloth bag before they dump you. And they do a very thorough job of it to. The last stitch goes through your nose to hold the knot tight upon you. They've done that way for centuries.

Thanks again!

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Mon plaisir, StalinLovsFbi etc.

@StalinLovsMsmZioglowfagz

Жыл бұрын

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio This was terrifying, I fell asleep the first time!

Thanks once again for a great bedtime story! ❤🛌📚🌙🥰

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure, Annie!

🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 😊

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Ring. 6 blooms?

@ringpop6177

Жыл бұрын

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 Happy now? I forget how you actors are 😑 And they are long stems!

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

We’re very fussy. Long stems are just the job!

Well done!

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Ta Shel12

Thank you

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

10 ай бұрын

Welcome!

There is an old Irish tale very similar, also Turkish. Must have happened at least once to be so often repeated .

Greetings from Ireland, has anyone told the government and the British media that the empire is over, love Dolyes writing

Thank you, I check everyday for anything you read to is ❤😊😊

@nicolawallace7255

Жыл бұрын

Us

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Do you get an automatic notification if you subscribe and hit the bell button? Cheers Nicola

Surely a physician, of all people, would know that a human body submerged but 3 days in the ocean (let alone, a week) would be unrecognizable from bloating, decomposition & the exigencies of scavengers ….(?)

Chilling. 🦈

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Not as funny as the last one.

We miss you, GW!

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

I'm still in the land of the living. Preparing another story to record! Hopefully this year!

@tottiemae2258

Жыл бұрын

Long time, no hear. We worry. 😟

Hello Mr Greg

Conan Doyle must have liked the name van Sittard used here and as a character in The Ring of Thoth.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

7 ай бұрын

Yes

An interesting story from Doyle with a conclusion rather contradicting his own beliefs in spiritualism and psychic phenomena.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

I guess they developed later on?

@geoffreypiltz271

Жыл бұрын

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio The Wikipedia page on Doyle says about his paranormal beliefs that "the strength of his belief in their reality waxed and waned periodically over the years".

🖤🌹🇦🇺

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Gabrielle. Is that Oz or NZ, it's so small?

OMG 😳 Sorry to interrupt but I just found out the Cure is still alive Whaaaaaat? 😝

a nicely fashioned silly little story....Doyle is so sentimental in most of his stories.....if he had been a little less sentimental and a little more action oriented he could easily have generated a horrorish story not unlike the eternal Dracula or Frankenstein....but apparently that was not quite to his taste although well within his power and style

Maybe he came back from life and become a mermaid. Joke apart the story is so sad😒

Truth & Science of the mind, of the body. 🪬🌊🌌🎐 Beautiful read. 🪭 Respectful.🎊

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, E P. Truth and Science - never the twain shall meet maybe.