A wonderful story, thank you

Brilliant listening to you on my night shifts in security all alone in some old buildings 👻

This story sounds amazing, looking forward to snuggling up with it tonight, thank you Tony, you're very much appreciated 🙏 💛

Thank you sir 😊❤

The description of the finger is one of the most precisely disturbing things I've ever heard. And your delivery is perfectly paced so as to accentuate the horror. Well done!

This would be a horror story without the creepy dolls and soul-catching.

One of my all-time favorites!

Yes Im all for dunking on the Byronesque! There should be no shame in technical writing, most of us werent born aristocrats idling away on aristocratic country estates and in exclusive salons

It's an interesting note at the end, how most of us are caught up in the romance of having the money to go in extended mediterranean holidays, with time to read lots of books on famous ships and trains. It's probably not a bad thing, certainly no worse than going on holiday today and the only people I find who take political issue of that tend to be miserable, and most do divide between travelling for leisure and fun, vs travelling on behalf of a government to take over something. It reminds me of all the travelling in mystery stories like Poirot, there's always something happening on a Nile cruise or the Orient Express

The rambling is the best reason to listen to him . He is just like having a old friend tell you a story . Then gets side tracked at the end. I really enjoy listening to this channel thanks for all the great stories and especially the ramblings after.

Love the channel. If ever you need some original creepy and subtle music, let me know.

I really love your reading voice and artistry when reading too. 10/10! ;)

This was awesome! Just had my second listen. Will Episode 2 be coming soon?

this and her story “the book” are incredibly well-written and haunting

The story was great and your narration of it was excellent! I love P G Wodehouse.

I would have tolerated the ads for the quality of this reading, frankly. Your effort is well work the monetizing inconvenience. You did a stellar job on this one!

Thank you. Good story.

This freaked me out so much I couldn't finish the story. Eek!

As always, Tony, I enjoy your long unstructured commentary. I was a little surprised to see you regard Harris first and foremost as an outside entity rather than as a delusion or projection of the protagonist's mind, and I suppose different point of views is the point and the advantage of hearing someone else's commentary. I had a suspicion at one point that this might be an imaginary wedding day, one that reoccurred over and over in a poor deluded woman's life. Another point you made that stretched my imagination by contrasting with my own preconceptions, was comparing the the protagonist of this story to Eleanor in in The Haunting of Hill House. The protagonist here seemed to be fairly content to be living a common life ( not necessarily humdrum in her own eyes) but delighted to have a great addition like marriage and a loving man; Eleanor on the other hand seemed seemed enslaved by Family obligation the dictates of unworthy family members and the condition of poverty . I had a sense that Eleanor was all set to escape into something more exciting and totally different at the first opportunity. in The Daemon Lover as with most Jackson I find I have to stretch to interpret and the stretching and uncertainty is the greatest satisfaction in the unreached conclusion would be. oddly enough with Jackson's most famous story, the lottery, I thought everything about the story was clear and easy to understand even the setting was fantastic and unlikely to be encountered in real life.

Very enjoyable! Love your comments, and your precious dogs. Thanks 👏👏👏👏👏

This was the first CGSP upload I listened to. I'm returning to it because I need a refresher. Can't quite remember how it goes. This is a good thing. It's almost like new again. I wish I could go back and listen to many a classic LP again with fresh ears. Oh to experience ELP's "Brain Salad Surgery" again for the first time! It's a bit scary as well.

Interesting that it struck you as having oriental influence...i thought the people were Faerie!

“ Ten years we’ve been rusting Needing so much more than dusting Needing exercise, a chance to use our skills! Most days we just lay around the castle Flabby, Fat, and Lazy You walked in and oops-a-Daisy!” - Lumiere

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Several writers of ghost stories from the end of the Victorian era and the beginning of the Edwardian era came from wealthy families, this is just something I have noticed from listening to you for a little over a year now. I have a question about this story: So when (I forgot his name) threw his snow glasses in the kitbag with his skates do you think they broke? Questions like this plague me. This is how my mind works and it's annoying to me and probably everyone else. One final thing, H.P. Lovecraft (my most favorite writer besides you of course ) was quite impressed with Algernon Blackwood calling him a modern master of supernatural something or other. My train of thought jumped the track there. Apologies, for a long long long comment, I'm having a manic episode today and probably tomorrow too, so I thought I would spread the fun around....

Love M.R. James, love Old Gods of Appalachia, and I greatly appreciate your narrations. Keep up the good work!

Very interesting character. I was totally unfamiliar with the author before this. The story is quite unique as well. Your thoughts and commentary after the story are very much appreciated. Thanks so much for reading this story for us!

But why did the door keep opening? The girl couldn’t have always been in the room to give it a push.

The author died at forty-three, just as R. L. Stevenson did.

Did I hit a button or is chapter 22 repeated?

Tony. Yes you do spoil us indeed. What a Treat indeed. AND you are the only narrator who relaxes mr body then mind. Better than ANYBODY

I can’t count the number of times I have read The Hobbit as well as the trilogy. I read the when I was a kid and over the years. I’m an old lady now and I will probably read them all again. Are you familiar with The Gormenghast Trilogy? I’ll read that again before I die. Some things are just worth reading again and again. However I would love to hear you read The Hobbit to me as I’m lolled to sleep by your calming voice

I can’t count the number of times I have read The Hobbit as well as the trilogy. I read the when I was a kid and over the years. I’m an old lady now and I will probably read them all again. Are you familiar with The Gormenghast Trilogy? I’ll read that again before I die. Some things are just worth reading again and again.

Tony, Ioved both your story and the story you read to us. I had an urge to suggest to you to listen to Bashar channelled by Daryl Anka, feel if resonates with you. I think you are ready to wake up. There is much more out there, don't take other people realities as yours. Just a suggestion.

One of my favorite authors. I have two big books of short stories by Maugham. Yes I know, a snob and mysosynist. Maugham and Graham Greene favorite British authors. I read all his books. What I liked was often there was a twist in the story that evolved from some complex human behavior that took one aback at the end of the story. I love the movies based on Maugham too: like the shocking "Rain" with Joan Crawford and "The Painted Veil" . I really appreciate these stories being told in storyteller tradition. It was a 100 degree day here today so I just lay listening with the fan on. 37:51

I like the commentaries. They're a treat for introverts: I get to hear somebody's ideas and reflections (and dogs!) without the attendant social anxiety. I like the purely immaterial ghost of the early type better than the more recent ooey-gooey kind of ghost, but I enjoyed this story. (While I'm thinking about it, I want to ask why, in the mult iple volumes of ghost stories my admired M. R. James wrote, there's hardly a single ghost? Plenty of animated dead, and one or two first-rate monsters, but apart from The Rose Garden and perhaps Mr. Humphrey's Inheritance, I don't remember any standard filmy-grey revenant spirits.) I suppose that's because the idea of the soul parted from the body after death meshes so well with Christian theology. There's something disagreeable about the bodily thrift of this creature's care to reclaim its scattered bones, though I admit I chuckled a bit at the thought of it sitting down with needle and thread to stitch together the shreds of its veil. This business of being sufficiently material to be detectable by touch cuts both ways. I felt just a little let down by the story's ending. I thought the windup of the events described would be that the apparition now followed Corwin (or Colvin?) around. Or perhaps we're intended to infer that it does so? I wonder. I'll tell you, though, what struck me most poignantly about the tale. It's Corwin's discomfort about making his request to the narrator to share his cabin, leading him to say "I'm a member of White's," to support his character for respectabllity. I felt quite overcome by the idea of a fear so shattering that it prompted me to make an admittedly fishy-sounding plea to a stranger. The shame of being driven by fear to put onesself in such an equivocal position simply adds the finishing stroke to the fear itself. Poor man!

Who was Nat Paynter, and what was his vampire story? The author throws in the reference as if he could count on the reader's knowing something about it, or at any rate having heard the name. I'm not specially a fan of vampire literature (Stoker wrote the book, in my view), but I'm always interested in an author's mention of another author. I haven't found anything about it on the internet, except links to Thurnley Abbey.

I look forward to the nonsense waffles!

Wow, that freaked me out! If I was the main character I would have fainted as soon as I saw the finger the first time.

Tony, just want you to know that I enjoy your 'ramblings' and philosophising!? after the story as much if not more than the story itself! have to go to work now but - later!!!

ooh, Tony and Jaser together!!😍💀 can't wait to hear more!