An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by J Sheridan Le Fanu

[@robinpresleywoodward]

I could live in one of those houses shown in your tranquil art.❤

[@DarkLightSwordFight]

🖤🖤🤘🤘🤘in a world of quick and dirty short form content i thank god for channels like this

[@cherylself1636]

I want to add that I was a mental health worker. I am now retired. I'm from Texas in the USA. I like the personal stories they are relatable and interesting.

[@Bluediamond200]

No one can read a story better than this guy.

[@jamesblahut5008]

I love it when you and Bitesized Audio Classics read the same stories. It's really fun to see what each of you bring to a tale!

[@amandine512]

Tony has ruined any ability I had to listen to other narrators, save Ian Gordon, he’s that good.

[@jamesblahut5008]

@@amandine512 I enjoy Simon Stanhope. He's definitely an actor, and Tony is more of an academic. I appreciate both approaches.

[@user-Tn2Dn]

@@amandine512I feel exactly the same way. I’m so disappointed listening to anyone but Tony. I used to like the Bitesize stories but he’s fallen way behind Tony IMO. Tony is truly gifted at this.

[@soundsilence2604]

To my ears, Tony shines in all things ghostly, macabre or fantastical. Simon's voice best suits mysteries and humor. Both make brilliant productions, but I'm admittedly partial to Tony's creepy-calm intonations (and post-story waffle).

[@VoltaireVI]

Stanhope seems to me more like no actor. His pauses are so unnervingly tedious and artificial. With one exception: A compilation of Saki's stories.

[@samjuby5933]

What a fabulous story Tony, your brilliant, ignore the haters, they are just jealous, laugh at them and feel sorry for them as they are sad

[@nataliepOU812]

I try other channels for variety but always come back to you Tony. You are just the best. Greetings from Seattle on a perfectly rainy night 🌃

[@ClassicGhost]

I'm glad that you do!

[@lauriewarner4848]

What a incredible voice I am listening to. How on this gods given earth have I not listened to you before. Thank you! Brilliantly executed.

[@JD-cw4qg]

😊

[@sugarfalls1]

Tony, I binged on your newest stories last night! Was sooo good! The way British people say "hall" from the back of the throat is so much scarier and better than the American version (I am the American! lol) Just that little detail alone made your reading of the story so much better and authentic! Many thanks from the Atlantic seaboard! All the best to you in 2024!!!

[@djkelleher3557]

Greetings from Cork, Ireland 🇮🇪. It's my first time listening to you, and I must compliment you for both your storytelling and your insights/ramblings! It's a treat to listen to you. Thank you 😊

[@ClassicGhost]

Great to have you here. You must recommend some good Cork stories

[@sathurxy49]

Tony, as a Dubliner, thank you for pronouncing Aungier Street as it has been for centuries. There are versions of this story, but, the narrators pronounce that street name in the French style after the town of the same spelling. It's not their fault. Absolutely understandable. Your attention to detail is superb.

[@ClassicGhost]

+Joseph Wearen Thank you Joseph! Much appreciated. I did have to look it up :)

[@emho5135]

I'm Irish and I once spent an hour wandering in circles around Aungier Street looking for it, while the flecking dubs couldn't work out what I meant when I tried awn jee air or awn gee air street.

[@A_QuestioningSoul]

The commentary afterwards is a great addition! 👌🏾👌🏾

[@lyndabrennan4560]

How wonderful, have a lovely weekend Tony 👏💛

[@janislohman8125]

Your voice is perfect for this reading. Well done! GOD bless you

[@amandalee215]

Thank you Tony another great story proper Friday night treat!

[@iamlunalane]

❤ by far my favourite narrator of thrilling tales of horror and intrigue

[@Sn4fu]

Ahh I’m so glad I found your channel again!! I forgot the name! Exactly what I wanted to listen to today.

[@martiwilliams4592]

Truly gripping, horrifying tale. Love your vivid narrations and interesting "ramblings". Le Fanu never fails to scares me silly. Uncle Silas kept me awake until the very last page. Thank you, tony!

[@violetfemme411]

What a lovely surprise! Thank you 💜

[@donaldmccleary9015]

Great story and narration. I have heard this before, but as always, your rendition is the best. I like this one anytime I hear it.

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you, Donald.

[@lifewithhollyt]

You are one of my favourite channels right now... thank you for a great time every video!

[@ClassicGhost]

thank you

[@sleethmitchell]

years of living on small old sailboats, never making any money, instilled in me the desire to run a small used bookstore. many cheap-o marinas have paperback book exchanges... offering showers and a coin laundry to the boat-bound along the intracoastal waterway... benign ghosts, coming and going, through the sounds of the north and south carolinas.

[@ClassicGhost]

Sounds delightful!

[@TheMrCougarful]

A brilliant reading. Thanks much.

[@feralbluee]

really enjoyed your reading. your quiet tenor voice is calming and easy to listen to, while giving one the shivers in the right places. i’m already subscribed and now i know why :). thanks much for telling us all these stories. have a great day :) 🌷🪻🌱

[@ClassicGhost]

Wonderful! thank you for subscribing

[@georgeohwell7988]

Fantastic reading

[@johnroche7541]

What makes this story so special and real for me is that I know that area in Dublin very well. I can visualise the story. The great Irish literary man James Joyce lived nearby at one stage. This is one of my all time favourite ghost stories. Huge fan of Sheridan La Fanu. MR James the great English ghost story writer states that Le Fanu was the greatest of the genre. I would also recommend the ghost story "The Judges House" written by Sheridans fellow Irishman Bram Stoker who is more fsmous for writing the vampire classic "Dracula". Sheridan wrote a great vampire story called "Camila" which was made into a movie by the famous Hammer film productions starring Peter Cushing.

[@ClassicGhost]

+John Roche The Judge’s House is on my list

[@amandine512]

Thank you.

[@ClassicGhost]

You're welcome!

[@mariameere5807]

Excellent work as usual Tony! Loving the art! Thank you so much 🙏🫶✨🫶

[@JD-cw4qg]

Love this tale and your version is brilliant, thanks

[@ClassicGhost]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@itendzinplural9563]

You’re a wonderful storyteller :) thanks!

[@ClassicGhost]

+It Endz In Plural thank you very much 🙏

[@Story-Voracious66]

Equipage! I my heart leapt to hear you say the word. I just love it when you talk clean! 😆. Sunday meal prep day for me, Asian food from Nam prick sauce and marbled eggs for breakfast, to vegan, ginger and eschalot sauce fried greens with home sauce marinated faux duck for dinner. (Chop, chop, cho, chop. I love faux duck so much! I guess you could call it seitan worship!) Today you have made my Char Siew a lot sweeter. Thanks Tony.

[@ClassicGhost]

+April Wakefield your sunday was before mine. i like that word too . an impious and quotidian

[@Story-Voracious66]

Oh I'm all a shiver! Such words, and a man who knows how to say them. Interlocutor, is another word that I love. It is percussive by sound and engaging by meaning. 🥁🔗

[@LucicPower]

Didactic

[@violetfemme411]

"This kind of petered out." 😂😂😂😂 But always entertaining 💜

[@brandyjean7015]

I adore your narrations. Although I did chuckle @ your stentorian 'Who goes there?' It had enough volumn, but seemed more petulant than powerful. Of course, I entirely blamey own perception for this disconnect. When I think stentorian, I think James Earl Jones.

[@ClassicGhost]

I am practising stentorian in front of the mirror even now. Gruff, powerful, no nonsense. It's the new me!

[@Andrew-if3sd]

"You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you? "😊 Yikes, 😱 a super rat 🐀!

[@Dontstopbelievingman]

Your voice reminds me of Rahul kohli. Very nice to listen to.

[@thurayya8905]

I have noticed that in horror or tragedy or any media where there is prolonged suspense or heavy emotion, it is more effective if there is an interjection of humor or lightness. I first noticed this years ago when my friends persuaded me to see "The People Under the Stairs" with them. Wes Craven would get the audience chuckling over some antic, relaxed, then -- pow! -- he would have something jump out and everyone would scream. If you don't produce that contrast, the audience will provide it themselves, which is probably why we find the B horror films of the fifties so silly. Well, that, and bad writing.

[@DenWell-SeedsOfChaos]

I worked at two Waldenbooks and one small family-owned bookstore. All three were horrible experiences full of horrible humans being shitheads at every opportunity. I would say, keep your "working at a bookstore" as a pleasant fantasy and don't ruin it with reality. I know this is a real bummer of a comment but this was my experience in California, maybe it will be much nicer there in England, where I imagine it to be lovely and perfect all the time, right! 🥰Please take my opinion for what it is worth... Two US pennies? One..? Okay, it's free.

[@mwilson7842]

Who was worse, your employers or the customers? Just curious 🧐

[@ClassicGhost]

I suspect it's much the same to be fair. I didn't apply for it in the end.

[@shawnsutherland7080]

“I’m looking for a book…I don’t know the title, and I can’t remember who wrote it…but it’s got a black cover and white letters…you know the book I’m talking about, right?” Or the time a guy (who was looking for A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole) opened with “Do you have that book by that guy who killed himself?”

[@papabear5506]

I worked at a Half Price Books for almost a decade and it was wonderful, until corporate started taking away the individuality of each store. Loved it, though, overall. Probably the only job I'd go back to if i ever decide to work at a job again.

[@libertycowboy2495]

Very enjoyable tale. Love Le Fanu's works. Always enjoy your narrations.

[@LadyEng]

This is my first time listening to you and I am fascinated! Cheers from your new Argentine fan.

[@chernobyl7.347]

This was made into an old radio show back in the day I believe called "The Judges House" or something similar

[@alison155]

Love these rambles 😂

[@ClassicGhost]

Glad you do .

[@daniethegirl029]

Love the pic 🖤

[@JasonJason210]

The thumb was also very good!

[@ClassicGhost]

Ta!

[@JasonJason210]

@@ClassicGhostWhere is the artwork from, may I ask?

[@ClassicGhost]

sorry , yes it’s Midjourney

[@1952TeleDude]

I need the book with the blue cover. It has a guitar on it. I need it now. It’s very important.

[@peterbianchi6219]

Just an aside-was Hamlet's father's ghost really working for justice? Was he (It?) really the ghost of Hamlet' s father? He (It?) drove Hamlet to madness and murder, caused the suicide of Ophelia, caused her brother to kill Hamlet, caused the death of Hamlet's mother (perhaps just), caused the death of his (Its) brother (certainly just) and left the kingdom without a king ... so, all that tragedy just to get revenge on a bad brother. Perhaps that "ghost" was never the father of Hamlet - just a demon in king's clothing. Something I've often wondered at. Of course there is the Gravedigger, one of the most humerous characters ever written.

[@tracibrown6431]

Thanks!

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you very much!

[@70schild420]

👏👏👏👏👏👏bravo💀👻

[@daniethegirl029]

Maybe one day you’ll own a bookshop❤❤ I’d shop there

[@ClassicGhost]

+Abrams_Like_The_Tank i often fantasise about having a bookshop

[@ginadoughty6950]

Omg you finished your video with exactly what I said lol

[@ainemoroney9965]

Very happy to hear you sharing your puppy training experiences, this is something many people and puppies will benefit from. BTW - if Ruby has an aluminium bowl she will see a dog reflection and find that off putting.... Ceramic or non breakable is worth a try.... Bookshop keepers don't worry about the appearance 😅 - you just have to get the "book keeper accent" ( nasal, condescending....) - you love accents 😅

[@ClassicGhost]

Ha ha. Nasal, condescending. I'm a natural!

[@saschafiege4242]

Can somebody define what newly fronted means?

[@tabithacollins6003]

I think that it means that the original old facade facing the street, had been modernized, to make the house look more modern at the time, but even that had now fallen into disrepair. All the best from Germany 🙂

[@Andrew-if3sd]

​@@tabithacollins6003ja, das ist richtig!

[@amandine512]

If your channel name was on the mugs you sell then I would like to buy one.

[@ClassicGhost]

It used to be, but this is a different design.

[@70schild420]

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[@amandine512]

You are too good to work at a bookshop. You should own one.

[@GrootsieTheDog]

Need new theme music. The current intro sounds like a Stranger Things twilght zone vibe. I think using more conventional instrumentation and early classical with modern compositional techniques and effects could set a more ghosty tone Imo

[@ClassicGhost]

Noted

[@Andrew-if3sd]

1:03:44

[@mrblaxto]

I feel some of these later readings feel too cheerful for the subject matter imho.

[@ClassicGhost]

lol. some other guy just told me i was too boring. i suppose those aren’t mutually exclusive. At least I’m a cheerful bore which is better than the alternative:)

[@tuxedomask7071]

"literally overpowered"?

[@ClassicGhost]

knocked down ?

[@karlinguk]

Unlike the excellent and much more palatable.. Derwentwater narration Although nothing against the reader this story's use of descriptive words is superfluous; there is a overuse of colour... Making it too complicated to follow. Why do some writers overkill by adding too much to the canvas so to speak?... Tse Limited audience.