A Dead Finger by Sabine Baring Gould

In Sabine Baring-Gould's haunting tale, "A Dead Finger," an ordinary visit to the National Gallery in London spirals into a chilling encounter with the supernatural. Our unnamed narrator is tormented by the appearance of a disembodied finger, which leads to increasingly eerie and life-draining occurrences.
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00:00:00 Start
00:00:12 A Dead Finger by Sabine Baring Gould
00:49:00 Commentary

[@thurayya8905]

This has been a wonderful day: first you, then Jasper, then you AND Jasper, and now a second story from you. It doesn't get much better than this.

[@World-Sojourner.22]

❤ Hi, I’m wondering who Jasper is? Is he a story telling KZbinr? Thank you!

[@maj0rsquish]

What there was a crossover??? Where?! I love jasper! I mean Tony too of course!

[@brandonletzko4239]

Encrypted Horror. Jasper Lestrange.​@@World-Sojourner.22

[@greatestytcommentator]

Who is Jasper?

[@Appabunny]

​@@World-Sojourner.22Jasper is the narrator on Encrypted horror here on KZbin. He's great too!

[@SMichaelDeHart]

Tony, Tony, Tony...OMG, you've brought back some horrible memories for me. Thanks a million... really appreciate!! I'm just kidding... a little!! When I was 14yo I lost most of my left hand (except for lower thumb & palm area) in a Traumatic Amputation Explosion. My late father was a US Army Air Force combat veteran who served in the South Pacific Campaign. When he returned in late 1945, he brought back a 20mm shell (amoung other items) and it was supposed to be inert. 35yrs later, I found out it wasn't, the hard way. Long story short, at 34:50 when the protagonist was describing the feeling of magots burrowing into his sidngthat immediately hit home. After my 1st surgery (total of 5) my plastic hand reconstruction surgeon opened a flap in my left side, sewing into that pocket my left hand to allow healing and skin growth. However, about a week after I started feeling weird sensations around my hand. It felt like worms or magot crawling around. To say the least, I was rather uncomfortable. Actually, I was flipping out!! Dr. Lee finally calmed me down by removing the 3 miles of bandaages used to wrap around my body to keep my left shoulder/arm/hand stationary and there immobilized. I kept telling him that infection was inside me there. He proved me wrong!! He said it was my nerves regenerating in my nub/what was left.

[@franken-pattern]

Omg! TWO STORIES for our weekend?! Yes, please, and THANK YOU !!! 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

[@thornmichaels5388]

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!

[@martiwilliams4592]

Creepy, disturbing, inside out, upside down thinking, thought provoking and funny all at once! Masterful,captivating also THIS time around! Love your vivid word-painting, your accents/dialects in your expressive narration and informative, amusing "ramblings". Very enjoyable. Waffle away! As always, you're the best , Tony Thank you.

[@lyndabrennan4560]

Two in one day, wow Tony, you're impressive, and a kind man, thank you 🙏 💛

[@ClassicGhost]

My pleasure!

[@rheinhartsilvento2576]

Thank you Tony💚⚘️🌈🤩 We're so spoiled🎉🥰🤗

[@5tsumi13]

I am so glad you can devote your time to your channels! As Many of the other listeners have said already, your stories and narrations are greatly anticipated. I hope that your efforts continue to grant you the ability to gift your listeners with the experience of story and mythos. It reminds me of the dark and magical world of my youth. Radstuff

[@trudi1962]

Thanks Tony. As always, love your rambling. ❤️

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you kindly

[@amandalee215]

What a Bank Holiday treat Thank you Tony

[@KayBacci]

A really creepy story, Tony, excellently told! I am listening to your 'waffle' too! I learn a lot from them. I laughed at the bit in the story where ladies object to Mr Square's American habit of putting his hands in his pocket! I had a boss once, years ago, who used to do this. We referred to it as playing 'pocket billiards'. We were amused by it!!!

[@yesterdayitrained]

Thank you Tony! Every time I see a new upload from you, the happy part of my brain just lights up. I hope you know how much your work means to so many.

[@ClassicGhost]

That is very nice. yesterday it did rain ☔️

[@yesterdayitrained]

@@ClassicGhost 🤣🤣🤣 Love it! Thank you!

[@MrsJanLong]

Well that one gave me the willies! Great story, thank you!

[@Story-Voracious66]

Well then. Mr Square, the first Ghost Buster! What a change of pace, Thanks Tony for another unique presentation. You do such a great job in finding stories that no one else does. Thanks as always for your informative and truly thought provoking talks at the end. They are the conversations that I never get to have in daily life. My poor old Dad is very poorly in isolation in the Hospital right now; it's great to have a familiar voice to listen to for a bit of distraction, whil waiting for news.

[@ClassicGhost]

I’m very sorry to hear about your dad. Thinking of you xx

[@Story-Voracious66]

Thanks Tony, a kind word mean a lot. Even if it is from someone way out there in the big world.

[@violetfemme411]

Listening with a massively painful migraine...and hoping for a cure 😊 💜

[@sarge4455]

Sorry 😢

[@violetfemme411]

@@sarge4455 Thx. I'm better now 💜

[@suecondon1685]

Sabine Baring Gould, oh my days! Love this writer, I have his books 'Mehalah' and 'In the Roar of the Sea' - this one being a great Cornish adventure of smuggling and wrecking. He even wrote Onward Christian Soldiers. Fascinating man, thank you for this. 😊 It's also really creepy, like some monstrous creepy spider is crawling up the inside of the coat EEK 😱

[@glosteiger2517]

I like your ramblings. I always learn something which I love. Always learning is so important. I have obviously not learned my punctuation.

[@trixie10199]

This was an amusing and wonderful narration! Mr Square was lewd, rude, and crude, and he got the job done! I loved it!

[@merlapittman5034]

This is a unique story, strange and dreamlike, and it FEELS like a nightmare. Really wonderful!

[@allierowland9]

A lovely listen and ramble for a Saturday afternoon working on the computer. Thank you.

[@ryanjohnson3615]

This was a really great ramble portion! I particularly enjoyed it as well as the story.

[@katyvdb5993]

This was quite, quite, flesh-crawling! I was familiar with Baring-Gould as a great figure in the folk revival movement and as a hymn writer (an an eccentric who preached with a sleeping bat hanging from his shoulder) but didn't know that he wrote fiction. Thank you for this.

[@katestyrsky329]

Oh Sabine! That was one EERIE story you wrote!

[@amandine512]

Beautiful as always.

[@ClassicGhost]

Thanks again!

[@nanceeM1313]

Thank you kind Sir❤

[@jenniferlevine5406]

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!

[@annnovy4537]

Really good to hear your views on this story, author and religious implications, thanks

[@mijiyoon5575]

Thank You *Tony* as always an excellent presentation. Found *The Rabbit Man* ... well done ALL involved

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you 🙏 Please spread the word

[@mijiyoon5575]

@@ClassicGhost Will do

[@spittinchips5175]

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

[@jjjjjjjjkigghh8662]

Absolutely love your work

[@dennisthornton4434]

Cool new story and first comment. I can remember when you hunt down someone to tell you a ghost story or read it yourself. Now we have people from different countries reading them for us. Wonderful times. 😊🎉❤

[@ClassicGhost]

Though I’m not from a different country of course :)

[@dennisthornton4434]

@@ClassicGhost aren't you English. I'm American plus ion Gordon from horrorbabble is English.

[@thurayya8905]

Yes, I was thinking how much easier it is to hear all sorts of stories every day. Before the internet, you would have to comb your bookstore, library, and magazine stand to find one.

[@rebeccastanhope3989]

Wonderful story. Thank you.

[@angelaroberts2803]

Great stories as always .Thanks tony.

[@linnmatthews8615]

Enjoyed today's ramble. Covered a lot of ground with very few words. Painted a picture of the man and his place and perspective in time. Rambling concisely. Well done. Thank you.

[@ClassicGhost]

Rambling concisely :)

[@aimlesswanderer4786]

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.

[@sonnetlikely]

Woooow. This was proper creepy! Loved this one!! ❤❤ Thank you SO much!

[@amgroves76]

Thank you for a lovely reading of one of my favourite stories. You're choosing all my favourites from the vampire archives I have on audible. You're far better at narration than that version!

[@ClassicGhost]

I don’t know that one. could you link it ?

[@donaldmccleary9015]

Great story, narration, and chat. Gould is pretty darn good. Sounds like a neat person! Thanks for giving us such a robust weekend of good listening.

[@ClassicGhost]

Thanks Don

[@leonaheraty3760]

Thank you Tony. 😊

[@denisepiekarski4159]

I love your waffling!😊

[@Permaculturedesigner]

Glad I stuck around for your commentary. Speaking of London, that's where I gave the speech which is the top post on my page... give it a view if you have time.

[@grizzstark]

Wow! What a story reminded me of a Stephen king short story about a finger from the drain. And I've always asked why we don't use the tides to make electricity! Maybe the suggestion is keep the poor,poor send them back to their poor homes (or coffins) Was so excited to hear your thoughts after this one !

[@MarianneOrent]

Really great weird and funny story! Even better ramble 😊

[@alisonkirkland6132]

Interesting mentions of renewable energy too.

[@sumar207]

Excellent, creepy story and your conversation afterward is so engaging, like being instructed by a great professor, sometimes with a sidebar of puppies or sirens.

[@ClassicGhost]

The pups sit and listen with great respect :)

[@along5925]

Hello Tony, I found this one very entertaining. I only started to figure things out toward the end. I really enjoyed your commentary because it adds context and perspective. I do find it disturbing that we all have to be so reticent when simply stating different views on a topic. And then have to tiptoe around apologetically for fear of giving offense. It must drive you crazy. Everybody is so d*mn touchy. I'm hoping this pc sensitivity recedes so we can all go back to discussing things like adults. I'm off to listen to your Agatha Christie now (or maybe tomorrow if I get sleepy) Stay well.

[@missmouse20]

That was fun!

[@lunablue745]

This is a well written and narrated story. I'm just too immature to appreciate it. When I imagine a finger inching around rooms and snuggling into shirt colors, I giggle. Give me a wrap on the knuckles!😁

[@PumaLyn]

🤜🏻📏 😁

[@lunablue745]

@@PumaLyn Cheers!

[@LadyEng]

The Influencers???? Ha, haaa. I know a few in my country. Great reading.

[@lesleykaygosson315]

You're Incredible Mr. Walker ! You're a talented, brilliant and gifted storyteller. I'm very impressed with how perfectly you voice different characters. The amazing amount of work and effort you put into every episode. I appreciate all the research that you do, it's all so fascinating. Story ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Narration ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐❤️ You could read a Cookbook and I would be captivated. ❤️😉

[@ClassicGhost]

Look out for the cookbook playlist

[@lesleykaygosson315]

​@@ClassicGhost Well now I'm excited and for some reason I'm hungry. 😉❤️

[@ClassicGhost]

@@lesleykaygosson315 hmm. No kebabs

[@ryanjohnson3615]

Lol. In the beginning at the museum (when the lady is freaking out) I wonder if the finger wasn't peeking out his fly for a look around...😀

[@violetfemme411]

Hey Tony, might you recommend a collection of essays on Jungian philosophy, especially regarding his view of life after death. I'm certain I can find something randomly, but I prefer to have your opinion 💜 Thx for your dedication to posting some brilliant material. I enjoyed this one very much, and my headache is gone! 😮

[@ClassicGhost]

Memories Dreams and Reflections is a good one to start with

[@violetfemme411]

@@ClassicGhost Thank you. I have read a few essays and found them very interesting. I'll definitely get a copy of this collection. 💜

[@thehangingparsiple5692]

Ooh, you have a classic detective channel in the offing? Look forward to that! Enjoyed the podcast at the end very much...very interesting, and l found a lot of food for thought in there. I've studied a little on poverty in the 19th century and a bit beyond, and I have views and opinions on it that certainly wouldn't agree with Mr Gould's! I'm going to look him up and dig a little deeper into his thoughts on it. For me, this whole story was a very eery, cleverly written fable on rich versus poor (or left versus right). Maybe through the character Square Gould was intimating that the poor deserve not pity but punishment or even eradication through electrocution, as they're the social equivalent of sickness or disease such as influenza?

[@ClassicGhost]

+@thehangingparsiple5692 it’s up and running 🏃

[@thehangingparsiple5692]

​@@ClassicGhost👍👍👍

[@alisonkirkland6132]

"as it flouted and spurned the native music" is an interesting line. England (not the British Isles as a whole) is probably more embarrassed and disowning of its own traditional music than anywhere else in the world. Just a side note.

[@brandonletzko4239]

I'm so relieved. Next time a pretty young lady looks at me in horror and flees, I'll know to look for that pesky finger. All this time, I thought it was me.

[@ClassicGhost]

It was the same with me.

[@ronaldmussulman2735]

Hi Tony, I wanted to know if there was a particular character in the stories you have read that you can really relate to, or do you have a favorite fictional character? Curious listeners like me would like to know. Thanks

[@ClassicGhost]

Hmm. In these stories, not really. They're too short. Gandalf?

[@ronaldmussulman2735]

@@ClassicGhost Gandalf is a good one, thank you.

[@TheMrCougarful]

The nonsense waffle is the best part.

[@darrenpearce6617]

Keep the post-ghost analysis always.

[@ClassicGhost]

I am going to steal that phrase: post-ghost analysis! Thank you :))

[@darrenpearce6617]

@@ClassicGhost Great. Pleased to coin a phrase,

[@SunnySmile-fr5yg]

😯👆😁

[@jeffwilson201]

I look forward to the nonsense waffles!

[@TheNSJaws]

this feels a bit like Disco Elysium story.

[@kevincallahan9742]

Ok Uncle

[@DenWell-SeedsOfChaos]

This is true horror. Body horror? Right?

[@ClassicGhost]

It absolutely is

[@DenWell-SeedsOfChaos]

@@ClassicGhost Later after I commented that, I thought, I hope it's clear I mean true horror as in pure nightmare fuel, it's fiction as far as we know. 🤔🤨But damn, if a disembodied finger crawled up my leg I would lose the last hold I have on my sanity.

[@raselrashid1550]

About your KZbin channel.

[@skeleczar]

Whenever I listen to your stuff at the end, I really can’t believe you didn’t end up a professor. I mean, I’m sure you’ve been great in the things you’ve done other than that, but you really would have done fabulously as a professor.

[@skeleczar]

I really, really do appreciate well-thought through (or even not-so-well-thought through) ideas from both or all sides, so thank you for the selection and the commentary on it. ❤ Also, this kind of reminded me of The Nose by Gogol! That’s a good one. I really do love the odd ones like that. You’re right though that it isn’t that surrealism/magical realism precisely though, even though it has that element of weird in it.

[@ClassicGhost]

I was a school teacher for a year :)

[@nonakabyrd5759]

Read by Tim Curry?

[@ClassicGhost]

Tim Curry of the Rocky Horror Show? Not him no.

[@ZanahoriaBaila]

Ahhh, writing dude was REALLY against unions and unhappy workers showing their unhappiness, huh?. There is conservative bias, and then there is authoring a tale about discontented workers being a disease that should be electrocuted. No need to make it ambiguous. Very nice narration and thanks for the sample: now I know I should only pick this author if I wanna get angry.

[@alisonkirkland6132]

The author definitely shows his politics here!

[@thurayya8905]

Sabine Gould strikes me as being influenced by "muscular Christianity."

[@ClassicGhost]

Ah yes I’d missed that one

[@sarge4455]

Calling Americans yankee is an insult to half the country 😂

[@Rickkennett143]

I enjoy your nonsense waffle. More nonsense waffle please!

[@keithjones8424]

All this AI popping up. I cant stand it. Thanks Tony.

[@ClassicGhost]

I am real