You have a ghost eye.

This is great. I was thinking I had read it wrong...but, no, your video helped me see, in a hilarious way...that I was indeed reading it correctly.

Stephen King wishes he could write this well. I enjoyed your reading. Thank you.

Thank you for this great reading. I was always so thick headed that I never could figure out if A) the wife wasn’t really dead until after the Panther attack ( was she just in a coma) or… B) did she come back from the dead to fight the Panther to protect her beloved?

Nice 😊👍

The story is infinitely better than the performance! Anna, find the voice! This is not playful, macabre sarcasm about human frailty, this is a bitter prophecy. The voice should be more logical, more objective, more ... in a word ... "scientific." Here we find the incomparable Poe rightly transplanted into France, even as the likes of Maurice Ravel would soon worship him the same way Berlioz had worshipped his Shakespeare. Here we find a presentiment, transcendental, of what our own AI is likely to become: a shred of seemingly innocent, philosophical, dialectically programmed curiosity, pretending to be human -- even mimicking a soul -- turns this juridical "cyber" cat (the finch is the first victim) into a compulsive killer at par with but "beyond the [Nietzschean] good and evil" of the great white shark he rightly should have described more accurately from the start. Anna, you need a bigger voice. And a bigger ... boat!

Came to reaffirm that this works as a metaphor for Palestine and the west.

This was my suggestion! I completely missed this when it came out. I'm so glad you liked the story. Jane Rice did a number of other horror/fantasy/weird tales, but, sadly, like a lot of female authors in the pulps at that time, her work has been largely forgotten. I've had a hard time tracking down her other stories, although I got a copy of "The Sixth Dog" at Necronomicon in 2017. She's a good writer.

I liked this reading a lot. I mostly listen to your ghost/horror readings, but this was a nice (albeit depressing) story. It'd be great if you did more of these. Don't worry about the accent. Even Mainers now wouldn't be able to do a Maine accent circa 1870.

In a few days, I have an exam in this story. It is a master’s degree😔

Holy Toledo, what a story. You have outdone yourself. Gabriel-Ernst indeed!

Nice! 😊👍

this was great!

Very sweet story. If i was a ghost id be a cooking ghost..was almost sad that it was a living person... Thank you Annabelle!

A noted expert on the subject!

'Inventing genres' how clever. Yes, 'Last Man' was dystopian, etc. Lovely reading.

Nice work, as always 😊👍

When i read ozymandias i think of the crumbled statue of Ramses II. But don't rules inhibit creativity?

Very nice! The popcorn was a great idea,very endearing. My only addition would have been French onion soup on such a chilly day. Excellent read, thank you.

Wow!! Just watched the whole video…. And wow. Probably the Best video I’ve seen in a long time. Instructional, entertaining and it leaves me wanting to know more about Sonnets…. I think everybody should watch this. Well done Anna Bell 👏👏👏

Sonnets!!!!! Way to go! Let me count the ways …😊👍

I appreciate these

Hi, thanks for the video. I just discovered your channel; I am a big fan of Maupassant; thank you. It was great reading, especially your intonation while reading. Wales -UK

I’m not sure I would call following your intuitive-gut/dream guidance as “flimsy”; but, I think it is a question of contentment & solitude versus potential heart-ache & love loss after a honeymoon period with a potential lover is the “higher” path . I think it important to remember, often a wayward lover could mean dying from syphilis, which ended in insanity; & while I realize that harsh, just the stigma of a prominent (well-to-do) Lady marrying an artist who might embarrass her was also socially a kind of a death, for one’s reputation stained by desertion or folly by a marriage partner could cause one to be held as a social pariah. I think it telling that the narrator here speaks to the audience as if they believe her premonition to be spot on, but out of curtesy, demurring to silence to spare her the embarrassment was a calculated foreshadowing of what would become known to the Lady in Lilac in the afterlife. Continuing down this line of thought, my personal interpretation as it is, I believe this to be a symphony of the lavender- that is, the muse (music) that caused this lovely Lady to have been “shelved”, & I think it quite intensional. As you say, many readers would have been familiar with the common practice of placing lavender between the sheets (of music? of love?) that have stayed unused. It’s a rather sweet tribute to women who followed their own inner guidance which lead them down a road less taken, though not necessarily less challenging, in a time when many wombans could not have autonomy without some social sigma; while men often remained unstigmatized at being a self proclaimed “Bachelor”. It is quite a step forward in progressiveness to suggest that the Lady in Lilac often thinks of this in wonderment but does NOT regret her choice, as obviously a womban of financial security in her own right, to suggest that a womban did NOT NEED to be played the fool over a folly of the heart & still be content (though possibly isolated) was against the grain of the day. So, with all that said, I found it rather a lovely story of a Lilac “Bachelorette”, & I think the writer is suggesting, ever so subtly, “why knot, if it instinctually feels wrong”. Thank you for the lovely reading. Get your throat a nice Hot Tottie- you deserve it! 🍯🍯🍯🍋🍋🥃

Nice work , as always 😊👍

I noticed it also, she mentioned lavender scent as well. There is a Ware Massachusetts, the town of Munson is nearby.

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Great rainy day reading! 😊👍

I like the black/brown hair color on you. It looks really classy. Definitely R. Dahl would be pleased. 📚📖🪭

I'm not always interested in what you are reading...but I'll always support you.

I'm a huge Lovecraft fan (of the writing, that is, the man not so much lol) so I was so excited to see you covering him!

6th generation resident of Calaveras County here! Thank you for sharing your reading of our county’s biggest contribution to literature.

Has anyone done existential horror better than HPL. Its a rhetorical question. Great read of a landmark book!

Cthulhuuuuuu 😅👍. Great work, as always!

So if I want to use cthullu (the charecter and make a short film, I'll not have any problems with it? Like I'm a animator and I've been waiting for a while for this, but I need confirmation from you pls 😁

This is literally SO UNDERRATED!!! I love reading classic literature for school, but I never get to know the context and culture and effects of the texts without extensive research. THANK YOU!

Thanks!

Looooove this one! Women’s voices are often like the cry in a wilderness’ ice. We speak in the cold, and the icicle we held out is now the arm. And that arm drips down from the cave so many of us find ourselves in. When I first called out from my cave, the other women came to join me and made me a fire. We huddled together in our feelings and we kissed our sons and daughters inside each other and onto each other. The men were alone in the night and they smiled at us when they returned, unknowing of our new collective and the soothing in our bond. Those men stayed silent, respectful and somewhat afraid of our power, and though physically stronger than us, they knew we had been among the gods, and were their gods. Anna, youre a rainbow! 🌈

What a coincidence I’m in Orlando and my nickname is Sweet dick Willie.

Hope you had a nice holiday! I really enjoyed your synopsis...thank you.

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Really great reading.. Do you ever feel like animals are the orphan that we all ignore left to suffer so that we might gain?

Songs of experience 😢❤....it's hurt so much damn

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Excellently read. Still bedazzeled that you read all that in one go. My readings are a car crash in comparision that are carefully (and painstakingly) put back together in editiing. HA! Thanks Anna Bell and Merry Christmas! 😊🔥

It's usually always a fun one when it comes to Saki !❤

Looking lovely,as always Thank you for the read... excellent!

Oh yay, I love Sakis dissolute young men Clovis is my idol and my ideal. I remember last year, you do the best Christmas stories.🌞