Thrilled that people are enjoying my story! Thanks again Tony for reading it and for speaking to me

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

My pleasure! It was all great

@Earnshawfully

4 ай бұрын

A compelling story! It reminded me of how disconnected the first weeks as a student can feel. I was a bit confused about the cat episode. It seemed odd that all of Sarah's school mates interacted with the cat, if it was a ghost-vision.

@roxyabrooks864

4 ай бұрын

Wonderful tale! Thank you, Mr. Darley!

@itgetter9

4 ай бұрын

I love it! Thanks so much for sharing it with us! (By the way, I am reading a new book about the Luddites -- Brian Merchant's Blood in the Machine -- Nottingham has such a wonderful history of standing up against oppressors!)

@skeleczar

4 ай бұрын

It was awesome! ❤ Thanks so much for sharing it with us!

Bad winter weather moving in. Thanks Tony for a nice long listen tonight with cats and teapot.

@waking_nicole

4 ай бұрын

Literally my idea of heaven.

@chasidahl8563

4 ай бұрын

​@@waking_nicole- me too! 🐱☕️💀😬

@THEPAGEBURNER1979

4 ай бұрын

@@chasidahl8563 🎉😂🎉SNOW😂🎉😂

@roxyabrooks864

4 ай бұрын

Me, too. Lots of snow and sleet to make it even more treacherous. I'm going to save this for when it actually hits (7am, EST) so I have something wonderful to listen to while I watch the world gently blur away...

@rebeccawoolfolk5377

4 ай бұрын

I listened to it while driving home in the dark and snow. Creepy.

Ohio here, English major, graduated from the University of Iowa in 1972 so you can well imagine how much I enjoy Tony's narration and selection of stories. This was excellent, recalling my days in college, walking the dark streets and visiting the bars with my friends -- only without the premonition! Kudos, Lewis! Tony, there have been jokes about how your reading puts us to sleep, but you have to know what a gift you have, and give to your listeners. I have weird chronic illnesses that sometimes prohibit my enjoyment of television or even reading, yet I can close my eyes to the sound of your wonderful voice. You are engaging enough to keep me from ruminating, yet when I'm tired, there is nothing that can compare to your soothing voice. I belong to a FaceBook group for chronic illness, and when a poster wrote of trouble relaxing, I of course suggested Tony Walker Classic Ghost Stories Podcast! Please take care, and keep reading for many years to come. God bless you!

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Thank you very for suggesting me !

@mamacypress

4 ай бұрын

Same! Also have several chronic illnesses and over the past few months this channel has been such a blessing while stuck in bed during respiratory illness and Tony’s gentle voice is even easy to listen to in the dark during migraines. So glad to have found you!

@jpmonkman

4 ай бұрын

Aha we all end up on the best story channels when we are ill. Ive got late stage emphasyma so its nice to have my mind taken off the real world.

I really enjoyed this story. The interweaving of potential realities with the idea that there is only one eventuality was elegantly presented. This was such a gentle telling of a harsh reality. I felt like the reader/listener was guided so gently along this story, shepherded towards the inevitable ending. I'm looking forward to more from this author.

I so enjoy your narration. Rare talent to “read” with more acting capabilities than most film. Thank you.

Good luck to Lewis on his project! I personally lack the patience to listen to the "explanations" this world uses to deny our spiritual reality---but I know plenty of people still think that way.

She tried, bless her heart.

Wow - that was an amazing story. Wonderful to hear your chat with the author. Thank you both so much! I really enjoyed the video.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

Great Story ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perfect Narration ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐❤ Wonderful Interview With The Author ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

For such a modern story, it still has a gothic feel about it. Really well written and narrated. 🙏

I wish you could fathom how excited I get when you put out a new story. Especially the longer ones. I have listened to Night Time Sleep Radio over and over and over because no one puts me to sleep like you Tony. You have ruined me for everyone else. Thanks A lot!!!

Enjoyed that very much and I'm looking forward to reading some more of Lewis's writing on his website.

Really liked this one. It's sort of a classic theme of fate and destiny (and if the choices we make matter) but I think it was done well. Thank you for sharing it with us, Mr. Darley.

Holy Guacamole! This was amazing! Bravo Lewis for a brilliantly written story. Kudos to Tony for recognizing the great paring of his narration with this tale. My stomach is still in knots! Poor, poor, Tom and Sarah!

Oh yes sir. Its well recieved.I enjoy longer stories because Im stuck in bed Ill so its nice to lose myself for a few hours! Keep it up and thank you.😊

A very different story but bloody brilliant. Thank you for this fantastic piece of work

Hi, dear Tony! Yours is the audial offering I most anticipate. Thank you for your excellent work .❤

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

thank you. great to have your support

This one made me cry 😢

Freezing Fog here in Carlisle!! I have the Influenza after pneumonia and thus Gratefully Appreciated this 🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟 Narration, great Stuff indeed!!❤

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

+@AndreaDingbatt I know !

I can't thank you both enough for this lovely story and interview. I'm a life-long fan immediately.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

it would be lovely if people visited Lewis’s site and left him a message :) he’s such a lovely person

@AndreaDingbatt

4 ай бұрын

​@@ClassicGhost❤I have to get to visit Lewis's site as soon as I have finished listening to this!!❤ Bristol is a place I've spent a lot of time in, and the description of it is perfect!! (The Bear pit has a familiar sound about it!!) Andréa and Jasper. ...XxX...❤

Brilliant story

Very good story. Lewis is very talented. Thanks Tony

Please read more of Lewis’s stories and for highlighting a young writers work

In the end, if she hadn't interfered, he wouldn't have been standing where he was. He would have taken his second bus and have been gone. That's the trouble when you try to make something not happen. You don't know if your actions will help cause the undesirable outcome.

The narration was amazing as usual. The story was perfectly written in line with Victorian ghost stories. Good job both!

Thanks for the interview and conversation and reading.

Gripping, vivid , masterful story and narration. Love the visual discussion after the story. Much appreciated! Thank you and warmest wishes to you both!

It irritated me that her therapist and mother decided to convince her that her last interaction with her father wasn't real. I'm not sure therapists regularly do that but it was just sad. It's pretty common for people to have a visit when a loved one dies.

@angelachouinard4581

4 ай бұрын

I was lucky to find a spiritually minded therapist. Totally non-denominational but very open to exactly that kind of thing. I think that was the basis for The Sixth Sense, Bruce Willis's character was a psychologist who missed that his patient's problem was dealing with the departed.

So glad you mentioned The Signal-Man, which brought up the horror/fate point. Such a great discussion!

How fun to hear and see Tony and Lewis ... Love all the insights on Nottingham... I teach Psychic Development in Orlando FL so The Premonition had special draw for me.. i will definitely listen again. I've had thousands of psychic and spiritual experiences over the years, and evidential mediumship is probably my favorite gift to share. The idea of a premonition, meaning to warn ahead of time, does bring up a discussion of whether some things are just fated and cannot be avoided, or if the premonition itself is a sign that there's still time to dodge the bullet, so to speak.. which Lewis dealt with in his main character Sarah. Really enjoyed the point of view and the descriptions through Sarah's eyes. Wouldn't that make a great title for a book from her perspective, Lewis? Through Sarah's Eyes. I can see her sequel coming up, can't you? 😅❤ Again, thanks so much for this "visit"! Brilliant story, brilliant narration and timing.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

weirdly evidential mediumship is what i’ve been trawling the internet for these past few days

I loved that story, Lewis! And I loved finally being able to put a face to a name, Tony. I lreally enjoy your choice of stories and your narrating... as well as your musings/ramblings at the end.

This is one of my favorites!! I was connecting with Sarah from the beginning.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Hope Lewis realises how popular his story was.

Lovely story.well read.Thank you tony.

Excellent, well done Lewis for this story. I am looking into his art now. thanks Tony for showing the interview Toni

@ClassicGhost

2 ай бұрын

Hello Toni! from Tony

Poor Tom😔

Solid story! Funny how the author didn't see his own connection to Dickens and the inevitability of future events. Great narration as always. Very cool addition with the interview!!!

Very inspiring work there. Very well written story. 👌

Loved the story and the telling of the story (of course :). ❤ A real treat! Thanks very much!

Thank you sir 😊❤

Magnificent story. Thank you so much.❤

I enjoyed this story. Early on I was expecting it to turn out that Sarah herself was dead.

❤️💯💋 to both of you!

This was one of my favorite stories! Thank you!

Well I absolutely LOVED this tale! Beautifully read as asual😊. And fascinating interview! I lived in Nottingham for many years, and now half an hour away in Grantham, so thrilled to hear all about the author. Nottingham is a fantastic, edgy atmospheric place, as too is Sherwood Forest..the most magical of places. I shall be looking out for future updates on this exciting project!

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Hope you’re not flooded

@gillrippingale1173

4 ай бұрын

@ClassicGhost That's very thoughtful, and much appreciated 🙏☺️ But no, thankfully not. My home is halfway up a steady incline and well away from a river ! It must be very distressing for those who are flooded.

Well done, both the story and the narration!

Omg!…a cliffhanging end.I am devastated…I wanted closure for Sarah,I needed to Andrea to declare she was right….

Excellent story, really enjoyed it. Initial prefiguring with the scaffolding but then the story whisks you onward .. brilliant.

Oooh... That was a good one! Simply thrilling!

Finally! Sure have been missing your readings!!!!🎉

Thank you, an excellent read

How incredibly sad. And amazing. Thank you as always Tony!

Bloody good yarn and well read sir

Great story! There was a similar student housing building where I went to Uni. Ancient, sways horribly in the wind, always in disrepair and has a terrible sense of dread around it so this really resonated with me!! Thanks for the tale and wonderful narration! Look forward to the animation!

Brilliant story! Wonderful narration. Fascinating interview. Thank you, both, Tony and Lewis. The story itself brought up memories of premonitions in my life and the lives of my mother, aunt, sisters, nieces. Gave me wonderful chills.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the story Maggie

It's so rare for a modern story to be well written. This was truly a treat. Thanks to Mr. Darley and to you as well Tony! I'd love to hear more collabs between the two of you in the future. And as always I'm a fan of long format.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

I will tell him

Very cool story! I was surprised when it first revealed the modern setting.

That comment about the classic warning to not go into the cellar reminded me of a time (back in the 1980s), that my sister and I were watching a slasher film on TV. The nice neighbor was heading for the cellar. My sister and I shouted, No! Don't go in the basement! Our brother was passing by. He poked his head in the room and conversationally said, Yes, go into the basement. Don't take a flashlight [electric torch if you're British].

I really enjoyed that story very good Thank you

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

Snow for Connecticut 😂🎉😂🎉😂

This was a really good story, and very enjoyable narration, thanks both of you!

Really interesting and entertaining. Thank you both.

Loved the story, thank you!

Well, that was certainly chilling!

An excellent story and excellent narration.

Fantastic story tonight. Thank you very much for your wonderful narration🙏🏻

Thank you for the great story Lewis and the most excellent reading Tony! Sarah probably caused the young man’s death. If he had gone on with his team mates, he wouldn’t have had part of the building fall on him.

I have not read "Harry" by Rosemary Timperly, but I looked it up and I see you did a podcast on that in 2021. Thanks.

So great!!

I enjoyed this, thank you!

THANK YOU MR. TONY FOR MAKING LISTENING TO YOU READ MORE INTERESTING THAN WATCHING TELEVISION'S NONSENSE *** I'VE TRULY ENJOYED LISTENING TO YOUR NARRATIONS OF THESE OLD STYLE STORIES MAKING THEM SEEM TO COME TO LIFE IN MY IMAGINATION *** MUCH LOVE AND RESPECT MY FRIEND ❣️❣️❣️

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

I agree . i’d rather listen than watch TV these days

Great story!

I hope you are doing well Tony Walker and all is good in your part of the world. It's been a few days (which is like 8 years in my head) without a story from you. I got the stickers right around Christmas Eve, I love them, thank you.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Glad you like the stickers. They’re my favourite. that and the little pin badge

@DenWell-SeedsOfChaos

4 ай бұрын

@@ClassicGhost Ah, yes, I need that little pin badge. 😊 I just ordered it.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Let me know when it arrives

Great story… loved it…!❤️

A morality tale about the importance of shed scaffolding at ground level in a commercial construction zone. As a trained scaffold erector, Tom's accident could been avoided. Not by the second site, but from sound construction practices. The number one way to die on a construction site is to fall to your death. The number two way is to have something fall on you. I was on a job waiting for the exterior hoist, and a mason laborer stepped outside the building and was hit by a falling sheet of plywood from above. It shattered his forearm. He was lucky. If the material had struck his head, it would have been lights out. On the same job, a plumber's apprentice was diligently standing below his journeyman's scissor lift waiting for instructions. The journeyman carelessly kept his tools on the floor of the lift, and accidently kicked a wrench off the open end of the lift. It struck the apprentice square on his head. Lots of blood from a head wound. The initial call for a bandage resulted in the procurement of an oily rag from the pipe threader. This was luckily rejected with disdain. As it was summer, a good man donated his tee shirt, which may have been a bit sweaty, but at least it was nor soaked in cutting oil. The shirt was wrapped around the unfortunate apprentice's head like a turbin. I could go on about various other catastrophes, but I will leave it there. Overhead protection saves lives.

@angelachouinard4581

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing. My grandfather used to say walking under ladders was bad luck for a reason. Rather than tote things up and down they leave them on the ladder or at the edge of where they are working. You bump the ladder or they shift on it and you wind up like the apprentice. Have a safe new year.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

This is perhaps the best comment on a video I’ve ever had

@Thomas-wn7cl

4 ай бұрын

Thanks, I have another story about a worker attempting to shift a ton or so of glass... it oddly had a tragic yet humorous ending.

@randomroses1494

4 ай бұрын

Many years ago, I saw someone who was injured in what must’ve been a similar accident to the one you describe . He was being walked along, supported by workmen with his whole head, including most of his face wrapped up like a giant turban. I remember feeling shocked, horrified and sickened all at once. He looked very young. I desperately hoped he would be okay.

@Thomas-wn7cl

4 ай бұрын

@randomroses1494 yeah, I was working for an Irish outfit renovating an older building that had oversized brick arches on the ceiling. One of these worked loose and stuck a worker in the head. They dragged him to the slop sink and tried to stem the bleeding with paper towels. I remember being a young man and looking at the amount of bloody rags sloshing about in the blood and water of the clogged sink. He had a horrible ringing in his head from the blow.

That was a great story. The reading was also great✨

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Before this story, all that "Bristol" brough to my mind was "ship shape and Bristol fashion" and Diana Wynne Jones.

Sweet 😋 cheers

Boss 🙌🏻🩷

great narration keep it up !!!

@ClassicGhost

3 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot!

I’d like to launch one of our discord book chats from this story! I’ll make the suggestion there. Great story, and I love the author interview.

TL;DR: Both author and narrator have fascinated me to effusion. My bad for the essay. 🤷🏽‍♀️ *** This is only my second listening experience for the channel and I can’t say enough how elated I was to get not only Tony’s end reflections but also an interview with the author and to find out about Lewis’s (coming and other) work. Huge compliment to Darley (whose name will be easier to remember now that you’ve made the famous Dalí association in my porous brain) that I expected him to be way older from his storytelling, although there is also a freshness to the content that makes sense, too. Please don’t rush the animation. I - at least - will gladly find it once released no matter how far in the future. Much respect for your inspiring goal-setting for learning animation skills associated with your passions! I’m afraid of spoilers for anyone reading this before listening, so *Spoilers* The horror these two discuss at the end - of knowing but being powerless to change what you know - made me almost angry at Lewis when he started the interview!! “He killed Tom!” 😂😂 I realized I had spent the last part of the story saying, “NO!!! No no no no,” in my mind. “Not the gRaVy!” 😅😅😅 What this means for me is that Tom’s character - and really all three main characters - had enough depth by the end to have become “people.” Does that make sense? In such a short time, Lewis provided enough detail that I had begun to care about each of them, including the roomie who might in other tales have been a superficial afterthought. I like her obsessive cleaning. 🥲 Tom might have been just a cute jock in someone else’s story but instead he had immediate personality and just enough inner life to draw me in. In the narrations about his thoughts, I can see through his eyes, the swirling confusion of what sense to make of the ghost story about …himself. And then his moment of reckoning that ends with never actually seeing him again in the story…. It’s like I can hear the quiet dread begin from that point, imperceptibly at first, but becoming louder and more insistent as I fight it back, denying this soundtrack’s existence despite it eventually becoming deafening. Unavoidable and undeniable. 😩 Bear with me. I just woke up and finished the story so I’m still half asleep. I loved the looming dorm, too. It reminded me of coming “home” in college to my own high rise dorm late one weekend night. As my friends and I approached the front doors, a salt shaker fell from a high window and crashed to the concrete near us. We gained a new respect for gravity at the same time that we were PISSED at the person responsible for the incident, whom we didn’t find. So yeah, umm, I have a feeling both of you will have some of my money in the future. 😊🎉

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for your thorough and thoughtful comment. very much appreciated

That was a ghastly vision.

Extremely well written. This is why contemporary fiction isn’t for me, though. That is, trauma and emotional realism at the forefront with the uncanny primary used as a means to communicate it.

Also, Sarah was a bit of a Cassandra too

I would think that someone feeling suicidal, but squeamish, would try cleaning that haunted model galleon, but I guess not.

Bloody excellent British horror Too bad we going extinct

@user-db2fb1db1m

4 ай бұрын

That’s good you comprehend what Boris Johnson is about It is tragic that ancient culture is disappearing from political agendas and financial systems that do have motives that rival that of any horror fiction genre.

X-files, mulder asks clyde' if everything is already prewritten. & it cant be changed' what's the piont in doing' anything? And clyde says, "now" ur getting the picture..

Final destination'🕯 more things change, more they will stay, - what will' may.. 💀

Pity Sarah didn't heed the song about keeping one's moggy in.

This one hasn't really been done. room 13 by robert swindells

So sad...😢

Which university in Bristol is Sara attending? I know the bar and bearpit are real because I looked them up to enter in the "important places" section for this story's entry at LibraryThing.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

+@annnichols3091 I’ll have to ask Lewis

@annnichols3091

3 ай бұрын

@@ClassicGhost Please do. If it's a fictional one, no need to mention it if it's not named.

@ClassicGhost

3 ай бұрын

@@annnichols3091 I asked him and i think he said UWE but then building which is real was used by different universities he said

@annnichols3091

3 ай бұрын

@@ClassicGhost Thank ou.

Did she kill him, if he had gone to football, he would not have been under the scaffolding, did her fear kill him?

@boxfox2945

2 ай бұрын

In away. The future is set in stone. What ever you try, thinking to alter it' only proves to be a part of its unfolding..

She made it happen in the end because if she haven’t been there he would have got his bus home 😢

Mr. Darley graduated just before the Covid-19 pandemic? Ouch.

I find myself getting mad when I read stories like this. Not mad at the author, but mad as a father at the fictional parents of the character for not recognizing Sarah's super natural powers earlier.

Faulkner's 1st published short story is a doozy. In the style of American gothic, it's called "A Rose For Emily". en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rose_for_Emily