Classic Ghost Stories Podcast - Tony Walker
Classic Ghost Stories Podcast - Tony Walker
A podcast that presents classic ghost and horror stories from the pens of the masters. There is a video every week on a Friday
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I really like the commentary.
Your voice, enunciation, and throaty intonations were a perfect fit for the tone of the story. I felt the tiredness and trepidation well. Thanks for the reading.
Thank you very much! It is one of my favourites that doesn't get a lot of views, so it means a lot that you liked it.
Beautifully read. Love the history and analysis 🖤🖤🖤
That’s a corker! I love period horror
It's really funny that my youth is now period! They teach what happened when we were younger as history now. :)
Great story, made more chilling because I think we all knew what was going to happen to poor old Smiler, even though he didn’t!
+@chrishalliday8371 Poor lad.
Enjoyed this one very much.
+@Josephinejefferies I’m very pleased that you did
Love your commentary, it adds to the experience. Ignore the haters.
+@barbiedahl Thank you 🙏
Totally believe that the story is haunted!
It is. Without doubt
Thourouly enjoyed this story.
Thank you, I enjoy your commentaries.
+@mariannwolf4889 thanks
Thanks Tony. Very good story.
That was fabulous, Tony. I've been listening over the past few days as I cook quiches and soups for the cafe I work in. You are a brilliant writer and performer. Many, many thanks! (I've ordered a copy of More Cumbrian Ghost Stories. Looking forward to it.)
+@lynnhardaker5466 I hope you enjoy it and I’m glad you were able to get it
I love the notion of the furniture picking up sticks and chuntering off to Rouen. I sometimes wish mine would do the same: it would make life less complicated. The fact that the police discuss the possibility of the antiquary's friend being a sorceress (as another commenter has noted), indicates that there is a supernatural element, so I think it's a bit of both. I enjoy the commentary/ramblings. It's like mulling over a story with a friend.
+@imh9524 that’s what I’m aiming for just to have a chat about the story not to be a masterclass or anything
The reading is too fast for my American ears to understand many of the words because they muddle together.
+@robinpresleywoodward could you play it at a slower speed? Maybe it could just be a question of getting used to the accent. I struggled with southern US accents but after listening to a couple of series I could understand them better.
E F Benson “Spook” stories are definitely among the best in the genre - and he wrote so many! The E F Benson Society has so much information about this fascinating man, his family and the society of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
+@anders4881 I’ve just recorded another, so listen out for in the tube
Fitz James O'Brien's Story: "What Was It" has an entirety different voice. Very plain language, straight forward story telling. Very modern sounding to my ear.
Hmm, so you like to mention personal interests in your stories, and you write often of presences approaching from outside the room. Is that something you've experienced? 👻💀🤔
Such a great story, thank you Tony. Guy de Maupassant and other writers and artists of the 19th century regularly sniffed ether and sipped chloroform to produce a dreamlike state, quite dangerous. Guy experienced visual and auditory hallucinations, ultimately losing control.
I have listened to you read this 3 times now (over the last year) I like it a lot, it is like comfort food for me, but not fattening. I've lost 21 pounds (not money) turning to your stories and narrations instead of food to pacify my -antsy- angsty self. So you are a hero now, you should be knighted. ⚔ Edit: angsty not antsy. I get antsy when I am angsty for too long.
That was odd, but interesting.
As an American, i will only listen to narration by English accents. Lol. Not sure why, but they're just more appeasing to the ear.
I love when the ghosts are skeletal corpse like. Unfortunately most ghost stories have, as you say, a more psychological scare factor but not physical. Do you have any tips for more in this vein?
What a delightful scary story. Amazing
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This is the best!!! I love the room. I’m laying on my couch 🛋️ I feel like your across the room from me reading!!!
Thank you for this story, Tony. Excellent story and your narration did it justice. I listened to your commentary afterwards. What an interesting life you have had, and have now! Keep up the good work. 👍 ❤
You are so delightful. Never apologize for your accent. They’re amazing. Thanks for your affectionate charming conversation even though it’s only one way lol 46:01
I know I'm hearing this story long after you posted it, but it is a particularly timely for me. Do you believe it Tony? I know i would like to. ❤
+@MarianneOrent I do believe it
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Love this one, very atmospheric. Please keep reading your own (and everyone else's) stuff, no matter what the gender or place of origin of the protagonist, your voice is perfect.
The levitation incantation I heard was repeatedly saying, "light as a feather, stiff as a board".
One thing I like about James, apart from his narrative gifts, is how his paranormal entities and ghosts are very focused and attached malevolently to one individual or small groups of men. It’s not like a ghost or apparition pops up and sends dozens off shrieking. It always is roused or displeased by one individual which, for all the shiny science and modernity, makes it all the more isolating. After all, who’s going to believe you ? This is the first post -WW1 James story I’ve heard. I wasn’t even aware James had lived that long into the 20th century. Of course not by our standard of blood and guts, the violence in the story isn’t particularly savage but by James standards it really is quite brutal. I loved hearing you do an unfamiliar James story and the shadow of the Great War made it all the chillier.
These are so good! Working my way through these and enjoying so much! Thank you!
Glad you like them!
Seeing a ghost would force me to reconsider my entire outlook of existence. Not going to put Tony on the spot, but I often wonder…. If he’s a ghost. 😂💚🐸
I will be one day
Month 3 of listening to this to sleep, im slightly obsessed. LOL. 😅❤
I loved doing it
I liked the story because we were on the ghost's side. I don't like real scary, but I like supernatural, like the movie Ghost, we empathize with the ghost (Patrick Swazey) .
Love your superb voicing of these tales. Maintain your commentary. Adds so much to the entire experience. Any of the books you mentioned are eagerly awaited .. thank you, Tony
That. Was. Amazing. I didn't want it to end. Thank you.
Thank you too!
Tony! How did this not appear in my feed until today! Horrors indeed.
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Thank you! This was really creepy, but the landlord's blatant greed was more nauseating than the spiders.
Thank you. Thoroughly enjpyable as always x
Glad you liked it
Do not stop talking!!! I live it!!! They can turn it off if they don’t want to listen. Ur great
absolutely loved this! many thanks :)
Absolutely my favorite voice in story telling.. Your dogs add a lovely reality to a wondrous listening experience . Thank you. Please continue to provide these curiously taunting tales.
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