Classic Summer Ghost Stories | M. R. James & others | A Bitesized Audio Production

[@itsstefjusstef9107]

Thank you to ALL, who are so dedicated to making sure these stories are accessible and free! I am a disabled veteran who struggles to slow my thoughts long enough to string more than 3hrs of sleep together at a time. These soothingly narrated, perfectly produced, scary as heck tales, provide the necessary haven for myself and so many others!

[@m.6292]

These MR James stories are wonderfully slow & melodic. I'm a Brit, so grew up on his ghost stories at Christmas. Glad they are helping you. May I also suggest Brown noise. It is a combination of white noises, that your brain tries to figure out. Let me tell you, as a member of the "too many thoughts & not enuf sleep brigade", it works wonders. Have friends & family who use it now too. Good luck & take care mate.

[@christopher5361]

Wow I can relate. I have the same story myself and it’s oddly comforting that someone else knows how it feels. I’m a disabled vet who struggles to sleep just a few hours a night.

[@melanieomer9186]

Me too

[@MossyMozart]

@itsstefjusstef9107 & @christopher5361 & @melanieomer9186 - Thank you all for your service; I am so sorry that it has left its mark on you. I am not a veteran, but just another person who finds sleep evasive.

[@dianebenak4099]

@@melanieomer9186😊uuuuuu 😮😢yoyftororyoyioyiyiyyuihiiiiiyiiyyiyyiiioiiyyiyiyyioyoubfoyo I P P

[@greedyfirstalgorithmlast26]

Thank you again, a old man 73 Years old "in my dodderage " enjoy your perfect narration.

[@kevallman7829]

LOAD OF BOLLOX

[@kevallman7829]

BUT VERY VERY GOOD AND HAIRY BOLLOX IN MY MOST HUMBLE OF OPINIONS

[@kevallman7829]

WHICH IN LAYMANS TERMS IS A MASSIVE COMPLIMENT. BOLLOX= FANTASTIC

[@jackdare]

Dodderage catches us all!

[@Gribbo9999]

I am 72 so my girlfriend is looking forward to a good rest next year.

[@d.deckert6634]

Appreciate your narrating such a wonderful story.. thank you 🤗

[@Aiko2-26-9]

I live in Japan and here midsummer is the traditional time for ghost stories. I think the idea is that scary stories give us a chill which helps us through the warm nights. Thank you for this interesting collection, very well read as always.

[@heidirobinson6432]

And we are so scared we have to sleep with our sister😂

[@alanhughs461]

My grandfather was so scared he also had to sleep with my sister and I 👻👻👻👻

[@thelastsausage635]

Extraordinary stories read by an extraordinary actor, if possible I seem to enjoy these stories even better the second or third time, just brilliant, many thanks Simon 🇦🇺👍👻

[@BitesizedAudio]

Thank you so much!

[@DreadArkive]

Thanks!

[@BitesizedAudio]

Thanks for your support, much appreciated!

[@KiKiabout]

Sweet... :)

[@appalachianamerican7171]

It's almost like having a time machine. You really bring these stories to life Mr. Simon.

[@bonniebarbee7984]

Thank You 🙏, what a wonderful way to spend an summer evening listening to you tell these stories again . God Bless you for not giving up. I’ve been praying 🙏 you’d still be able to share with us .

[@dew7545]

I've listened to your wonderful readings of "The Sand Walker" and "The Upper Berth" many many times... (Also a big M R James fan.) Thanks for many hours of enjoyment.

[@bobnewmanknott3433]

A wonderful revisiting of old friends by a wonderful narrator .as always my thanks .RNK.

[@corneliagartzke111]

I'm from Germany and find it very helpful to listen AND read the stories to improve my Englisch abilities. Thank you very much!🤗

[@BitesizedAudio]

Glad to help!

[@TheLoneAnimator]

A wonderful gift to your listeners; thanks! :)

[@leeverlander8053]

Oh wow, 3 of my favourite ghost stories of all time in one compendium!

[@BitesizedAudio]

Wonderful, glad to hear that! I have to ask: what are your top three? My personal favourites are The Upper Berth and A View from a Hill, but I like the others too of course...

[@rattyrachel2930]

What a welcome respite from the heat and the usually predictable day to day activities. Like a tall, cool glass of water just when one needs it most. Best wishes from all of us! 🐱

[@rougemont9553]

Very well said!

[@minzygreen1167]

​@@rougemont9553 absolutely!

[@BitesizedAudio]

Thank you for a lovely comment Rachel. And I'm especially glad to see that your comment has come through on this one. Best wishes to you and the gang

[@jonshepherd2550]

Could do with some of that heat now

[@RogerMcWilliams]

L😅

[@KL-de5yi]

Really looking forward to this when I get around to it. Almost 4 hours of content? Fantastic.

[@sloanfrakes5918]

Thank you 😊 I do love listening to you at night soooo much better than TV thank you for sharing your awesome gift

[@taliabee8661]

Soooo much better than the tv!

[@BitesizedAudio]

@Sloan Frakes And thank you for the coffee earlier, I really appreciate your support!

[@cimmaronstrings]

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[@cimmaronstrings]

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[@cimmaronstrings]

🎉I’m a huge 🎉believer 😅🎉

[@barbaraprest783]

I always enjoy your readings - thank you

[@gunners8487]

Thank you so much for all your work on this channel. Your reach spreads far and wide. From a listener in Australia.

[@kaf890890]

These are all delightful and creepy stories! Thank you for making my summer horrible in the best possible way. Happy Solstice!

[@hermione9445]

Thanks so much .for all your wonderful uploads and hard work 💕💕💕

[@BitesizedAudio]

You're most welcome, thank you Hermione

[@hermione9445]

@@BitesizedAudio Thank YOU .💕

[@LadyBronwynn1400]

The perfect mix for a sultry night. Thank you so much.

[@nancynickerson4341]

A wonderful treat, thank you Simon!

[@binkie4940]

What a lovely surprise for the summer solstice! Thank you so much 💞

[@Vates104]

M R James was brilliant. He could write a ghost story that both amusing and frightening.

[@annsester6146]

LOVE this channel!! Concise, interesting narration, and crystal-clear audio. I fall asleep being transported to another place and time...well done, old chap!

[@BitesizedAudio]

Thank you kindly

[@susanmcandrew9342]

Perfect choice of ghostly tales! 💀

[@NepentheBlue]

Oh my, this is a gift! Thanks so much, Simon, for this wonderful video. My evening entertainment is taken care of. :)

[@lindamoser6317]

Love your narrations of these stories, especially the ghost stories!!! Thank u for all of your hard work!!!

[@YvonneWilson312]

What am absolute treat! Thank you Simon, you really are spoiling us!

[@shannondore]

This was wonderful Simon. I especially loved the 1st story. (I'm a sucker for M.R. James) And I really love your choice of music. Lovely. 😊

[@robertingham6123]

Nice one Simon this will help me through my insomnia .Many thanks

[@BitesizedAudio]

Glad to help

[@nancyhalstead916]

Bravo, Mr. Stanhope !! More, please.

[@mariameere5807]

Absolutely perfect for a Sunday after a busy weekend and busy week! Thank Christ you’re still here Simon! One of my favourite things on KZbin is this channel! And I have given up television for KZbin! So that is a very big compliment!☮️🤍☯️

[@CharlesMarlow1898]

An immensely enjoyable selection of carefully chosen stories being well read, old top.

[@beverlyadams7205]

Thank you Simon! Great stories. And I love the creepy tinkly music between each one! Beverly🌹

[@mariameere5807]

I really really really really really enjoyed every single one of those stories! Well chosen! Many thanks and blessings!☮️💜☯️

[@katyvdb5993]

Thank you so much for reminding me of these stories. I have listened to them all in the past individually, and it has given me much pleasure to hear them again, as read with your beautiful diction and careful rendering of each character.

[@kipling1957]

A fantastic and artful narration. Perfect for M.R. James, time and setting. Subscribed and looking forward to more.

[@BitesizedAudio]

Thanks for subscribing, and for your kind comments. I hope you enjoy some of the other stories on the channel, and more to come...

[@garyhughes1664]

What a treat. Absolutely wonderful listening to these.

[@blixten2928]

The Maze: the 16th-century prose comes alive in your hands. I really feel the passion of the original preacher. Wonderful to listen to over and over. THANK YOU.

[@emlahey]

How marvelous to hear the different voices you do. Getting the chills 😳indeed!

[@marymary5494]

Thank you. Listening in December, feeling nostalgic about summer.

[@suziq1963]

Perfect length for my night time listening pleasure.. Wonderful way to drift off into the land of snoozes, lol.. Cheers BSA.!! So glad you're back.!! 😴🇦🇺👌🏻💯...

[@boredwarlock5216]

WOOOOOO! :D Thanks Simon! I'm glad you're back

[@emmishbells100]

What an absolute treat! :D

[@skrimper]

oh my god this is what I've been waiting for, a 2+ hour video!

[@darrylhunt1]

Fantastic collection. Thank you!

[@BedtimeStory-u2g]

I'm thoroughly impressed with this anthology of ghost stories. Each story, from 'A View from a Hill' to 'Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance,' is hauntingly good. Thank you!

[@exileinderby51]

Love all of these and I must have listened to The Sand-walker at least half a dozen times as well as to the other three. Your narration of each one brings them to life so thank you for that.

[@AmandaS18]

Wonderful idea Simon, thank you 😊

[@consuelaofthenorth4768]

Nice! Thanks, Simon.

[@oldones59]

For a chilling tale, read The Witch of Prague by F. Marion Crawford. Thanks for the upload.

[@code-52]

Yay Simon! I get very excited when I see that little light on my subscription.

[@taliabee8661]

Ooh, Mr Stanhope, you are spoiling us! 😉♥️

[@meese9140]

I love the sandwalker! It’s scary, and also pretty funny.

[@thrashrap]

Best narrator by far I’ve ever come across. You’re putting heart and soul as well as accuracy and annunciation. Your intonation is perfectly natural and carries one away in an instance into the moment, the landscape, the mood and scent of the time and place. It’s an absolute pleasure listening!

[@BitesizedAudio]

What a lovely comment, thank you so much Anja

[@donnavorce8856]

We are enjoying your narration. Modulation, sound, style, volume, all of it, very nice. Thanks. And please continue with the good work! Cheers from your newest subscriber.

[@BitesizedAudio]

Thanks for subscribing Donna, and for your kind comments. I hope you enjoy listening to some of my other uploads, and more to come

[@nicholasperugini3418]

Of course a chill can come on a summer's night

[@stevenverhaegen8729]

Lovely mix! 😎 Thanks for 'remastering' 🤓🙏

[@Captain-ln3vh]

Honestly I think Simon is pretty awesome at storytelling. Now I’m not a tech guy, how do I support him financially? I figured it out. Thanks Simon for a great Chanel.

[@wisdomoftheearlychristians2037]

i absolutely love the Sandwalker; your narration is always perfect. You always put me right there in the scene; so much so, that sometimes months afterwards, I can't remember whether or not I watched the story or listened to it as an audiobook. Perhaps it's just me, but there have been times I didn't realize it, until I saw a filming of the story, and wondered why the people look so different. In my mind, these stories become so real, it is akin to watching them. Wonderful job on the voices as well.

[@BitesizedAudio]

What a lovely comment, thank you so much!

[@mohammedhussein6985]

Love these stories on summer nights

[@Thirza.]

A midsummer night's dream come true.

[@Phinnius23]

This is fantastic. Thank you so much Simon 😊

[@joeylee2891]

Somehow this got on my KZbin feed last night as I was listening to sleepy stories. Lovely for going to sleep. Thank you ❤

[@jenslarsson7281]

Great as usual ! Though getting better and better . Many Thanks !

[@benediktmorak4409]

what i actually like even more than the stories is, that the level of music and talking, are all on the same level. Since i listen with headphones.

[@thewildbirds6070]

Love the music. "A View" is easily in my top 5 MR James, superbly thought through and so little anthologised thank you for the excellent reading. If you believe it we were read "The Upper Berth" by our substitute teacher in 3rd year juniors. I was aged 9 and terrified but it was clearly the start of something big as I am now a weird fiction addict,collector and aficionado. This is very good. Glad I have found you.

[@BitesizedAudio]

Gosh, that's a bold choice for classroom reading at nine!

[@thewildbirds6070]

@@BitesizedAudio I know. Mrs Thomas, now deceased. Read to us from the Fontana, Armada and Pan anthologies. Good taste, but there is a time and a place. No?

[@earthcat]

Thank you Simon 💖

[@Vates104]

An excellent choice of stories.

[@BitesizedAudio]

Thanks Danny, appreciated

[@christopherjones534]

Thanks!

[@BitesizedAudio]

Thanks so much for your support

[@teenaray6142]

Thank you, Simon. I really enjoy your work.

[@Huckebein2]

Many thanks from my home in Colditz Saxony Germany 😊....I am the last English Man living in Colditz 😊

[@NannyOggins]

Very enjoyable as per usual, I particularly enjoyed “Mr Humphreys and his inheritance”.

[@cynthiahawkins2389]

I refer to these as 'ghost snacks'..tasty and wonderful. Hubby is retired merchant marine, so the Upper Berth story is particularly appealing. Thanks and cheers from New Orleans.

[@Sandra-ww6oz]

My first tuning in - you Sir can narrate like no one else out there in KZbin Land - your accent is drop dead gorgeous- consider this a proposal if marriage as I am a totally smitten kitten 😘😉

[@BitesizedAudio]

Thank you Sandra, I'm very flattered! Alas, I'm already married...! Thanks so much for listening, and for joining as a channel member, much appreciated

[@SpuktasticAudio]

You cannot beat a big, fat, dollop of the maestro. The more the merrier. ❤

[@aprylrittenhouse4562]

Woah, the upper berth awesome. I listened to this on an icy cold January night all by myself, save for my kitty cat. Your narration is what makes this you truly have a gift

[@BitesizedAudio]

Thank you Apryl! The Upper Berth is one of my personal favourites too

[@stephaniealeman8522]

“It was the acme of summer…”🌹

[@earthcat]

MR James has always scared me to death 👻💀

[@Mike8981]

Are you a ghost then?

[@earthcat]

@@Mike8981 More of a shadow 👤

[@Mike8981]

@@earthcat That’s even more scary!

[@earthcat]

@@Mike8981 I am near 70 years old...scary is my currency.

[@jaybat1184]

Nice! I like long vids like this helps me relax

[@victoriahoward8244]

I just found this channel! It’s amazing!! Thank you for wonderful stories!

[@davecrosby6715]

Thank you. Loved it.

[@suevans6436]

I first read this in 1958 when I was 8, it scared me to death

[@jamieorourke767]

I listen your recordings every single day driving from glasgow to dundee in my hgv,just makes the day more bearable😂,love your voice and the stories you have chosen

[@BitesizedAudio]

Glad to help!

[@mohammedhussein6985]

Love these stories summer nights

[@lynncasassa7712]

love hearing these again. also love your music.

[@catherinecorn2371]

Meghan, I am a transformational life coach. I specialize in women and PTSD. What you experienced was 100% "normal" in your situation. Ideal? No. Expected? For sure. Your entire system was overloaded and your family was included. That was hard on you... You put a good amount of effort into keeping your family healthy, physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally. You felt like you were all under attack and you felt too weak to "fight", which triggered fear in your thoughts and your ill, tired body responded in kind. Anxiety is not weakness, it is the result of remaining strong for too long without reprieve. There is a great reason the Bible gives us a lot of comforting verses for the sick. You have an amazing support system, for sure. God has bless you so richly! The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace If you want to talk, I am here. I do remote coaching, via phone and video chat.

[@cathydoyle8804]

This one of his best stories, thank you......

[@TheMysteryandSuspenseStories]

Hearing these stories gave me goosebumps. Yet I'm still passionate about it every night, have you seen how terrible its appeal is :D . Thank you!

[@rdoodoo2021]

I love your voice and the way you read. Perfect! You're very talented.

[@margaretgardiner6260]

Great collection, thanks. Can I just say that I wish you could gave included August Heat. That's one of my favourites 😍

[@BitesizedAudio]

Thanks Margaret. Yes indeed, it occurred to me to include August Heat a little too late, as the file was already processing when I thought of it - I think it had slipped my mind because it's not in my ghost story playlist (I suppose it's more categorised as horror/suspense). But it's still available to listen to on its own of course, and I'll keep it in mind for a future anthology... I'm thinking of putting a few of the very short (10-15 minute) stories together in a collection at some point, as they often get overlooked on their own due to their brevity, so it'd be a good candidate for that when I get round to it. The Clock would be another. Thanks for the suggestion. Best wishes

[@danielsweet858]

Thanks! Your channel always gives me hope for the future of Western Civilization my friend. 😃 I could listen to you read the phone book.

[@XadrumLtd]

A fantastic collection, thanks! Was only going to listen to one, 3hrs later...

[@cherbrowne1637]

That was really good with it's unexpected ending. Thank you for sharung.

[@lovefunnyflicks]

I have listened to this umpteen times..really enjoy this tale.

[@nw133]

I loved this compilation (even though I heard them before, individually) thank you Simon

[@drbloodsvideovault]

Fabulous.

[@susanotway7875]

Thanks once again Simom. Superb narration.

[@DavidSmith-sb2ix]

The early English ghost stories are the finest.