Minuke by Nigel Kneale

[@GLING17]

Very good reading! I remember this story from an old book of short ghost stories by Marvin Kaye. There was some real gems in there!

[@benwolk6494]

I have the same collection by Kaye, still one of the best ghost story collections out there

[@GLING17]

@@benwolk6494 I still have mine as well although it is falling apart from being read so many times over the years! And I agree it is one of the best!

[@GLING17]

@@benwolk6494I agree, it’s one of the best!

[@NepentheBlue]

Love, love, love this particular story. Ran across it in a horror anthology by various authors and it became my favorite. So nice to hear it read aloud by someone who does that extremely well!

[@OssamabinKenny]

Sounds like a very accurate description of my current bedroom. I have been blaming it all on my laziness to clean but now I see that it was all the fault of the damn Elemental!

[@donaldmccleary9015]

Good story and narration! I love me some Sharpe. Never read the books, but I love the show and have read the plots (so I know what is going on). What a place to live!

[@Story-Voracious66]

Thanks so much again Tony. This is thy kind of story I like most. (I didn't know he wrote "The Stone Tape, but I was strongly reminded of it whilst listening.) This takes me back to my childhood and so many lovely memories of staying with my favourite Nanny, and being allowed to stay up late to watch 📺 TV. We would sit by her open fire, in the sitting room of her 1929 house, on her 1930s sofa, (velvet and the colours of moths wings), and be glued to "The Omega Factor", or any other such show. My happiest times. Thanks also for your talks at the end, which I sometimes enjoy more than the story.

[@bluegreenglue6565]

Oooh, this was a good one -- very chilling and dramatic. Interesting to consider what things may have been like for the neighbors while all the horror was going on. Thanks!

[@SC-jh9qp]

The film Poltergeist owes a lot to stories like this.

[@ClassicGhost]

Yes indeed.

[@amcghee3755]

I was thinking the same thing! The screenwriter must have read this story. The whole bit with the house self-destructing is so much like "Poltergeist."

[@thelastsausage635]

I really loved this one, marvellous slow increase in weirdness reaching a terrifying crescendo!!!!! The initial scepticism and comforting ordinaryness of the estate agent makes him the perfect narrator of the sinister evil beneath the bungalow!!!!!!! Wonderfully told, thanks Tony👍😃💀

[@donaldmccleary9015]

I forgot to mention I really enjoyed the chat. I was a subscriber to Fortean Times for years! I love that magazine!

[@terryIKE69]

Beautiful choice, Tony. Quite a deep cut of a terror tale, one from a seldom selected author. I really enjoyed it & thank you for showcasing this talent. I will be looking into more of his work. Fantastic narration, your normal high standards.

[@susanhepburn6040]

Thank you, Tony. The background details in the decription are much appreciated, too.

[@ImCarolB]

The picture set the scene for me, reminding me of visiting my dad's cousins in England. They took us for a drive to Arnside to see the great estuary there. All those houses in a row, facing the water, (or the mud).

[@ClassicGhost]

I know arnside. Mud/water/mud/water thats how it goes

[@hindleygj]

I've listened to this 4 times in the last day.

[@ClassicGhost]

oh wow. That seems a lot! I didn't even listen to it that many times when editing

[@hindleygj]

I have really bad ADHD and my shop is loud, so I sometimes miss half your dialogue.

[@99fruitbat94]

Finally ! My favourite ghost story of all time . Read this years ago and it filled me with a mounting dread. Many thanks for doing this

[@sugarfalls1]

Your name is so funny! fruit bat lol

[@sarahsamaria8283]

Tony you really outperformed this story. So vivid, an action packed narrative.

[@ClassicGhost]

I appreciate your support as always Susan

[@kalihensley-garrison6282]

I can't thank you enough Tony. Perfect timing. Lovely story. Thank you very much! I appreciate what you do. 😏🙏

[@ClassicGhost]

I thought Id posted it before and found that I hadn't so I did

[@SueCooke]

Whoo hoo, a new story! Just going to drive home, so will listen to this. Thank you Tony 😊

[@SueCooke]

Ye gods, that's the last time I drive home, on my own, through twisty dark country roads whilst listening to one of Tony's narrations!! All I was worried about was poor Nelly 😪

[@mrs.cracker4622]

Great story! Many thanks!

[@pariscribe5245]

Seems like a Great half hour install... Saving it for bedtime ... So thanks in advance !

[@ClassicGhost]

Enjoy! It's shorter than my recent ones

[@northernlights6459]

Great story, fascinating background and beautiful narration. ,

[@mariameere5807]

Great stuff as usual! Thank you Tony, very well performed..... 100 years old and not at all dated well of course not but you know what I mean, it could’ve been written today!🌟

[@mikestanyer6175]

Probably the scariest tale I've heard by you. As always a pleasure? To hear it. Question mark because I shivered a few times listening.

[@libertycowboy2495]

Excellent story. I got to listen to it during a storm, so was deliciously creepy.

[@ClassicGhost]

You were lucky to have a storm!

[@martiwilliams4592]

Facinating! Thanks for introducing us! Really creepy and your presentation makes it feel like it is (almost) real. Beware of real estate agents...Masterful

[@djr1943]

Thank you, Tony! Very well read. You really conveyed the horror of the situation. Great job.

[@wynbock]

Awesome narration & voice & inflection to this audiobook. 03/21/22.

[@susanotway7875]

Loved this one! Thank you Tony. Gripping and terrifying at the same time!

[@itgetter9]

Yes! Love it!

[@ClassicGhost]

:)))

[@sugarfalls1]

Your wealth of knowledge on these stories and their background is impressive! I love hearing your synopses and interpretation of these stories. I get so much from that! Thank you Tony! Hope your move(ing) is going well or went well. Many good wishes for you in your new house.

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you

[@sandrarickards886]

Good story, well told!

[@MSYNGWIE12]

Thanks Tony, how did you know I have always been a Jane Asher fan and to recommend just what I needed, karmically? Watched The Stone Tapes- EVERYBODY WHO LOVES THIS CHANNEL, THANK TONY FOR HIS IMPECABLE TASTE- quite spooky, esp with tiny fake candles on for ambience- no scarves over lampshades or incense burning if you might drift off- I listened to some of the shorter audio only in 3D sound- marvelous with headphones! How that got by me I don't know as I try to ferret out for myself and others, BBC AND ITV PROGRAMS, CLASSICS.... Tony, this one, I have to listen again- had a day from Edgar Allen Poe sort of and so was VERY AGITATED but your voice really soothes me- what I recall of the tale was very good too- you've introduced me to quite a few "new" authors, mostly women and I use KZbin for education- life long learner- all I can do is repeat, over and over how skilled your are, and how your choices delight, inspire and intrigue. "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" Poe? You should write more- I know you have another job and are active in your community etc- does your wife paint? I know one of your daughters does, does she a web page, say a Pinterest where I can see her work or Etsy, maybe purchase something- just wondered. All the Best. Namaste from Annoying but Sincere Fan- ( 1st a little John Hurt, The Ghoul is on here, hilarious but redeemed somewhat by Peter Cushing....on bad, bad days I like to listen to the late, GREAT, ( don't go by The Ghoul) JOHN HURT, reciting, Rudyard Kipling's "IF"...) Holly Go-Un-Lightly, Traveling

[@ClassicGhost]

Stone Tape was very good as was Quatermass. so you were listening with headphones? I edit with headphones on so I can hear any mistakes. I'm not promising no mistakes go through.

[@blixten2928]

One I'd missed before! Oh, the joy!!

[@ClassicGhost]

How do you think I could make the videos easier to find? Is there a way?

[@blixten2928]

@@ClassicGhost For an internet idiot like myself, who doesn't even know what a podcast is, I'm afraid serendipity will have to do. Thank God for KZbin is all I can say. Never stop!

[@baileyclark8483]

Once I heard that the poor dog died that was it for me. Thank you for the story .😊

[@ClassicGhost]

The dog didn’t die I don’t think

[@Pajexeter]

I just want to say how much I enjoy your readings and the choice of stories. I was born in 1959 so was at an impressionable age when The Stone Tape was shown, and I remember my mother telling me how she enjoyed Quatermass and the Pit, to the extent that she finished watching it before going to hospital to give birth to me, although I'm not sure whether that is entirely accurate! As a matter of interest, did you watch a series in the 70s called The Survivors? I think that scarred me for life! There was a remake of it but it was not a patch on the original, as it had been adapted for the shorter attention span of the average viewer nowadays. It seems even more prophetic given the current pandemic. Anyway, I have always enjoyed a good horror/ghost/sci-fi story and your series has been excellent.

[@ClassicGhost]

Indeed, I loved the Survivors! It was my go to programme of my early adolescence. Also I liked Timeslip a lot.

[@BigDog366]

I think at the beginning the unknown man is going to another property the estate agent has listed because as they're talking about Minuke, the agent says it's on the way so we can stop and see it. Just a little thing. Brilliantly read as always. Thank you so much for posting.

[@ClassicGhost]

you are very welcome

[@Josephinejefferies]

Enjoyed this

[@emilyduffy1410]

Fun story! Kind of a cross between The Amityville Horror and Poltergeist.

[@creative2716]

I have been putting off listening to this one, thinking it would be gruesome. I don't know why I had that impression. 🤷‍♀️ But due to some insomnia tonight, decided to take the plunge. I enjoyed it very much. I agree with a previous commenter that it could have been set in today's time period easily. Bit of advice: always get out when unexplainable keeps happening, especially with injuries.

[@superdragons111andwolfgame7]

Good one...well read.

[@grahamturner1290]

Fully Elemental. Ahem. The Norse detail is most intriguing. May I recommend the Viking stories, myths, legends and folktales on the Northworthy Sagas and Stories channel here on KZbin.

[@ClassicGhost]

I always liked the Norse stuff. Funnily enough I felt that the story was set on the south coast of England, whereas the viking suggests something more northern.

[@grahamturner1290]

@@ClassicGhost that was my impression as well, it seemed to possess a South of England vibe. Of course, the Vikings got everywhere : even Mars... ⚔️🚀

[@navelriver]

Kneale really puts the deep unreasoning horror in his stories, as in this one. Quatermass and the Pit is one of my favorite stories ever. It was so carefully thought out that it even has a ring of truth to it! I have the two DVD versions, the first black and white TV mini series and the later (better to my mind) movie version. I could not find the link to the phone line story, would love to hear it though!

[@ClassicGhost]

The Fortean Times had a piece on him this month for his centenary

[@toadyuk8391]

Tony, hope you saw my story suggestions for what they are worth. The author is rather amazing actually for his foresight, he established with this one of the first poltergeist stories in the twentieth century, before Enfield or battersea. He also establishes the whole of modern ghost hunts in terms of EVP in relation to his stone tape theory, which paranormal youtubers take as literal truth ! Then he setup the classic archaeology dig, which finds something horrible buried, again a classic trope. As an inventive mind he was well at the forefront of his work.

[@ClassicGhost]

I'm not sure I did see your story suggestions. I'd like to do his Stone Tape but it's a drama

[@toadyuk8391]

@@ClassicGhost one I now see you did ! Man size in marble, it was in your back catalogue. The one I will mention but really need to write you an essay on this topic ! It called the haunters and haunted or house and brain. Interestingly lord lytton wrote two versions ! He removed the ending chspter after it describes his meeting with le Comte st Germain ! So he cut it down and most collections have the short version. The short version has mr j the owner pulling up walls and burning everything. The secret occult version has another amazing chapter. That chapter completely changes everything. Lytton ran in best early occult circles and was an adept, it’s likely he did meet St Germain and this is mostly true account. Anyway you will enjoy reading the story if you don’t know it. It starts as gentleman investigator and spooks but develops into something much more visceral and that ending … I hope it’s not too long. By all means email me as I’m happy to discuss the story and Lytton. I have an amusing tail to share about his tie pin ! I even contacted longleat to try and get closer to truth!

[@ottopippenger1590]

Nigel Kneale was the best- pretty much the first real kitchen sink horror creator, an amazing career across print, tv, film and radio, arguably created folk horror, should be valued with Aickman and Jackson as being one of the few standardbearers of literate and intelligent horror in the midcentury prior to the general commercial and creative revitalization following Stephen King.

[@ClassicGhost]

+Otto PIppenger Great comment. Your knowledge of the genre shines through

[@SB111058]

Echo's of the movie 'Poltergeist' which Im sure it predates...

[@annabellreads]

Lovely narration of a classic ghost story as always. While I do have a soft spot for Edwardian gothic horror in particular, I do find the more modern ones a lot spookier because they're much more relatable. Maybe that's because I'm a millennial so the most farfetched thing that happens in the classic gothic horror is a single family moves into a mansion over the summer. Newish house with contractor mess? So much more my speed, haha.

[@ClassicGhost]

Hello Anna!

[@aabhadas4075]

I love listening to these stories when I am winding down before going to bed.Thanks for the excellent narration. By the way, what does Minuke mean?

[@ClassicGhost]

My nook so my little retreat

[@the-reclining-roleplayer]

Is it just me or does this sound closer to the plot of Poltergeist than the 'true story' the movie was supposed to have pulled from?

[@toadyuk8391]

This was a good one, enjoyed the ramping up of the thrills. However it’s sad that every action hero always sounds Mancunian, “ger in the car” etc. N see tony and not the idea I have made of agent in my imaginations.

[@ClassicGhost]

I wish I could sort the comments in order. Maybe there is a way. Though I think this story is set on the south coast. Nigel was a Manxman via Barrow

[@hawthornetree646]

I really felt bad about the dog. Couldn’t he have just escaped?

[@ClassicGhost]

Absolutely. It escaped. Don't worry.

[@terryIKE69]

The dog was just stunned.... (I'm sure)

[@hawthornetree646]

Yes and the narrator was just in a kind of shock and thought he was burying a dog but it was just an old possum that had already passsd away under the house.

[@lisawhite-pagano3455]

I hate how many stories have a dog “situation”. It’s always the poor dog.

[@deniseantunes725]

falta as legendas.