A Deadly Secret Lies Within This Forbidden Book

[@fiddlersthree8463]

I sometimes say to my dog, for the sake of conversation, “You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn’t you!” And he gives me the guilty face every time.

[@stalinlovsciafbifakemsmzio6674]

Hmmmnn, now that you mention it, methinks me pug's done the same. Interrogation upcoming.

[@medicalmisinformation]

Is that Judy Dench's voice, or just similar to?

[@ClassicGhost]

@@medicalmisinformation I don’t think it’s her . It’s from Psychomania

[@karenanderson1808]

😅

[@projectalice8119]

Lmao! I’ve been going around saying that to my co-workers!! The looks I get! 😂🤣😂

[@oakdew]

I love the chatting at the end. Your personal adventures, information about the author, and an analysis of the story are often more fun to listen to than the story itself. Keep up the good work, safe travels.

[@susanmercurio1060]

I look forward to Tony's discussion of the author and other topics.

[@franken-pattern]

My Fridays are far more enjoyable when graced with a glorious reading of a vintage tale! Thank you always, Mr. Walker!

[@amandalee215]

My weekend starts with a story from you on a Friday Thank you for your hard work

[@ClassicGhost]

You are so welcome

[@shaftomite007]

Please keep up your amazing work. You are doing good in the world. Thank you for your readings.

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you, I will

[@sleethmitchell]

of course, the tales are very good.. but it is your commentary, complete with the clash of excited digressions, that is the best part of the narrations.

[@ClassicGhost]

Very kind. Thank you

[@simonwilkinson4209]

Thanks Tony. Hope you’re doing well with everything else you are involved with. You definitely deserve a good chance

[@ClassicGhost]

I appreciate that!

[@Angela-cc1hd]

Love listening to your stories and all about the places you have been etc😊

[@libertycowboy2495]

Yay, Tony posted a tale!

[@jenniferlevine5406]

I really enjoyed this story and your thoughts on the author and the story itself. I am sure to listen to this one again!

[@johnrafert186]

Thanks!

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you 🙏

[@suecondon1685]

I love William Croft Dickinson stories, this is excellent Tony.

[@lyndabrennan4560]

I always look forward to Friday nights cos I know you'll be here with a story, thank you Tony 💙 💛

[@nancycardenas2724]

Thank you Tony, I enjoyed this story

[@ClassicGhost]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@karearoto4294]

Thank you ❤

[@edf777]

Thank you sir 😊❤

[@shadownet3d]

Thanks Tony! Great story and great reading!

[@angelaroberts2803]

Another great story Tony on a very damp day in Hampshire.Lovely to hear about your holiday.

[@jaemegrrl]

I love your intro! It reminds me of Hitchcock’s TV show intro: totally recognized immediately.

[@thurayya8905]

I'm so glad you had a good time, traveling, and gladder still that you came back to do this for us.✨️👻✨️

[@ClassicGhost]

Off for a few days next week, then back for ages

[@MaggieatPlay]

Perfect way to spend a too warm afternoon. Thank you, Tony. Very enjoyable story and narration. Thanks, also, for the after ramble.

[@donaldmccleary9015]

Great and riveting story. Fantastic narration. Very original plot. What a winderful way to spend a Friday night. Any person who earned a medal for bravery and gallantry at Ypres in 1917 is always gonna be fine in my book. Awesome dude! These old-time authors were really something else. Thanks!

[@rhondamuir3595]

Lovely reading, Tony. I bought the same book in the same bookshop not long ago, along with a couple of other ghosty collections. Glad you enjoyed your time in Orkney. Next time you'll have to look us up for a visit!

[@ClassicGhost]

Are you up there ?

[@c.djinmyr]

Another well done episode. Your talk about the killer book as a trope actually reminded me of the John Carpenter film 'In the Mouth of Madness' which adds something to the idea, I think, with the addition of more modern mediums for such evils to take aside from books, at least in the way the film ends. The apocalypse trilogy is a fun marathon imho

[@stardust949]

Very enjoyable---I''m glad you had a nice holiday in the Orkneys!

[@ClassicGhost]

I did!

[@donaldkelly3983]

Another excellent choice! That so many Scottish writers did ghost stories!

[@dodiekoehler]

Thanks, just what I wanted.

[@melindawallin3713]

It is so nice to get information about the author along with the commentary on the story itself. Well done.

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you!

[@marciedewolff9357]

Just what I needed! Thanks Tony.

[@usedscar]

"The keeper of printed books." As a bookseller I can't pass up a story about a story. Imagine how special book keeping was when the average person began to read. As close to magic as it gets.

[@ClassicGhost]

+@usedscar Id like that job

[@amgroves76]

Great story :) I adored Edinburgh when I visited, would love to go again as greyfriars was awesome

[@mijiyoon5575]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thanks *Tony* always enjoyable

[@tzaph67]

Thank you Tony, I really enjoyed that story. I wanted it to carry on and see what happened to the librarian. I suppose for me the unanswered questions were 1)After the inevitable demise of the librarian did the narrator try to destroy the book? And 2) Was it even possible to destroy the book? I didn’t think it was open, I felt it was pretty definite that something unleashed by the act of opening the book caused the deaths. Another writer who I will explore a bit further. Although it drew on pretty familiar tropes I thought it was very well constructed and the moral isssues leant depth, very enjoyable and brilliantly read as always. Thanks again.

[@AndreaDingbatt]

Ahh, my week is complete!!😊❤

[@jaceek2030]

Love the spooky stories (ghost/haunted tales are my faves), but I could honestly listen to you just chat and relate anecdotal stories, Mr. Walker. 🤷😁

[@ClassicGhost]

I mean to do more Late Night Sleep Radio where i shall do more of that

[@martiwilliams4592]

Just as captivating this time around. Seeing bookshelves, elevators , scarves with new eyes and am giving my old books to thrift shops...Thanks, Tony. Much appreciated.

[@oneoflokis]

Even the intro music is scary! 🙂👍

[@terryleetv1]

Great story Tony and thx for comments at the end they really add to an additional understanding of the story ❤

[@katyvdb5993]

Very eerie...it would be entertaining to hear you read, as a counterpoint, the Father Brown story, 'The Blast of the Book'.

[@ClassicGhost]

I might get round to that, but probably on the Detective Channel

[@Bbergster]

I found a Scottish artist who I haven’t stopped raving about, and sharing…. Donavan…. Hurdy Gurdy man. 😹. “Get thy Berings.” Guy’s still kicking. Bet he has some crazy stories to tell. I know u know. I knew the popular songs, but didn’t know about the artist. Good find for me. I know about the need to hunt. The next needful thing to occupy my mind. 🐝🐝

[@darrenpearce6617]

I would take what you said about the guilt and the book as far as there being a parallel to censorship. At the same time M.R. James wrote of nasty scrapbooks and parchments Lady Chatterley was banned. At the time of the 17th century puritans theatre , therefore performing Shakespeare, was banned. Now we live in a time of cancel culture where some people lack a sense of historic context, satirical value and even humour itself about the arts. I cant help thinking that the evil book horror stories might inadvertantly parallel humanity's inability to heed Heinrich Heine and Ray Bradbury's warnings about burning books. 'It was the book what did it'. Anyway, enjoy Whitby.

[@usedscar]

MR James was suspicious of all works of art!

[@chrishalliday8371]

I genuinely love your afterthoughts. This is a great story, and remarkably modern. The supernatural menace here is largely unexplained, and is unavoidable once provoked, much like the menace in IT FOLLOWS or the spirit of death in the FINAL DESTINATION movies.

[@julierobinson3633]

I didn't know they had Orange marches in Workington.

[@mariamcgee4462]

Enjoy Whitby! I love that spooky place. 😊

[@ClassicGhost]

Me too!!

[@THEPAGEBURNER1979]

My day is way much better with Tony in it the story is just more perks😅

[@LucicPower]

It's becoming a Friday ritual and I have Saturdays off, don't change the schedule Tony. 😊, can even listen to the long ones Friday nights, really liked the Meyrink story in members only, also haven't seen anything new from Jasper in a month, hope all is well

[@ClassicGhost]

I’ve been in touch with him about the latest Ashridge story

[@fiddlersthree8463]

@@ClassicGhost Can't wait for that!!!! 👏👏👏👏

[@Thomas-wn7cl]

Great story and commentary 👍

[@edf777]

Thanks tony❤

[@ClassicGhost]

You are very kind . thank you too

[@JimBagby74]

I was hoping we'd get a report from Orkney.

[@ClassicGhost]

There was a bit of one. i keep meaning to do more late night sleep radio where i can be chattier

[@KristinChoruby]

I love old books, but I do not like things that refuse to die and keep coming back whenever you try to get rid of them.😅 Sounds like that thing needed holy water, not seawater.

[@rebeccawoolfolk5377]

I'm a catalog librarian, and I'm confused. I've never cataloged a book without opening it. How is the cataloger not dead? Maybe we're immune to evil books?

[@ClassicGhost]

Ha ha !

[@glosteiger2517]

Short but enjoyable. How wonderful to travel in the uk. Nothing in the USA seems to be as fascinating. I’m jealous.

[@SMichaelDeHart]

You mean the political 🎪 🎪 and 🤡🤡 show doesn't excite you?? 😂😂

[@lyndabrennan4560]

We have our moments in the UK, although I've never been to America, it's on my bucket list to at least visit new york, I have to go to central park,, 💛

[@SMichaelDeHart]

@lyndabrennan4560 would currently go today, it's a crime ridden $#!+hole!!

[@Story-Voracious66]

Thanks as always Tony, I listen to all your posts, and love your "peppery" days. Your balancing act between PC, WOKE, and any other objective issues folk have is quite a feat in this, the YT circus. Oh I haven't commented much lately because it's too difficult with rigger's gloves on! 😄

[@Story-Voracious66]

​​@@martinrutley-wk5dsUm... It's not a God here, but as the author of the comment above, the answer is, "very difficult." Because when I am wearing them I am often balancing on bare joists, six feet in the air with a pinch-bar in one hand and a hammer in the other. With my employer not far behind me watching how many times I stop ripping up the old timber deck. 👷‍♀️😏

[@ClassicGhost]

blimey 😨

[@SMichaelDeHart]

Mr. Tony, I was awaiting your weekly upload for today. Now I've got my bedtime story. However, I'm really looking forward to tomorrow's upload of your Classic Detectives 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' next 4/5 chapters. P.S. Listened to this story before bed tonight. Great narration, as usual!! Creepy story...would make a good movie

[@LucicPower]

The murder of Dan Akroyd?

[@SMichaelDeHart]

@@LucicPower no, Roger Ackroyd!! It's the famously known story written by Agetha Christie that Tony is reading on his other channel, 'Clasic Detective Stories'. It's another Tony Walker channel on KZbin, check it out!!

[@ClassicGhost]

it’s ready to go

[@SMichaelDeHart]

@ClassicGhost so am I!! I am also trying to send you new subscribers on the CDS channel.

[@ClassicGhost]

THank you very much

[@amyh.2020]

The last object look like thimbles stack up.

[@ClassicGhost]

It might well have been. Where was it?

[@suecondon1685]

Fun fact. William Croft Dickinson was actually English, despite being such an expert in all things Scottish.

[@toadyuk8391]

My goodness - i have just had a Mandela effect. I always thought the quote was “you tried to get into the locked ROOM today, didn’t you ?” Now i find it to be DRAWER !!

[@ClassicGhost]

it is room officially

[@ruthb6332]

Your channel has been playing non stop for me this spooky season 💕👻

[@yvonnemoore7816]

I love the story’s just started listening to you today so i Will look forward to hearing more amazing story’s thank you. 👻

[@ClassicGhost]

Hope you enjoy!

[@Cat_festation]

Emily Dickinson had an older brother named William, but I doubt it’s the same person. Regardless, another Friday night triumph!

[@sylviajones4907]

"not novel"....😂 Good one, Tony.

[@jessicajackson8064]

But I wonder if James was conscious of how his religious believes coloured his tale?

[@usedscar]

He had to have been. Religion and beliefs are embedded themes in his writing. Someone wrote that MR James himself would have been better off as a Catholic because as a strict Anglican there was no concession for ghosts etc.

[@dirkbruere]

FFS will nobody just photocopy the thing...

[@goodnightvienna8511]

"Canon Alberic's Scrapbook" by M.R. James is an evil book-related story, "The Tractate Middoth" is ancient literature based. Theres a stream of what could be seen as a rather Puritanical thread running through James' work, such as the evil in "I'll Whistle.." being blamed on Templar / Papist belief. Maybe not Sectarian as such , maybe simply pompous and stuffy, yet that's sublective. Thanks for the story !

[@ClassicGhost]

Good points :)

[@earthcat]

"Nineteen-seventy-teen... nineteen-seventy-teen...". 😂 You are going to have to lay off the mushy peas, Tony.

[@deborahjones-gd2je]

Is it Helen Mirren saying "You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?" ?

[@ClassicGhost]

I don't think it's the blessed Helen Mirren

[@susanmercurio1060]

Ypres = "Wipers"??

[@ClassicGhost]

That ms what the British soldiers called it

[@susanmercurio1060]

@@ClassicGhost I figured that. It seems as though Americans aren't the only people who fracture French.

[@suecondon1685]

​@@ClassicGhostMy Scottish ex husband also called it Wipers

[@sandrarickards886]

I’ve listened to your stories many times. I’ve loved them, but noticed your accent has changed. The northern lilt has gone and you have become “posh” for want of a better word. You are a superior storyteller. Please, go back to your northern roots. Your beautiful tone of voice carries it so well. Xx

[@ClassicGhost]

horses for courses really . listen to the garside fell disaster or my own stories. I’m not posh on those

[@sandrarickards886]

@@ClassicGhost Thanks very much, I will. Not a criticism, because you’re good anyway, but I first heard your stories in your natural accent and it’s easy on the ears!

[@ClassicGhost]

My own stories tend to be in my natural accent

[@stewartlancaster6155]

20min

[@cfarina5470]

Your show is really good, but would be so much better if you would stop interrupting your guest. Especially with pedestrian observations, such as religion is stupid. It’s not interesting, and it breaks up the rhythm of the value of what your Guest has been trying to say without you interrupting.

[@ClassicGhost]

This is a spam bot comment. there is no guest . this is a place holder for you to edit later and put spam links in

[@rewatteefroimchuk8589]

Thank you ❤