Negotium Perambulans by E. F. Benson

Prepare to be captivated by E.F. Benson's haunting tale, 'Negotium Perambulans.' Join us as we journey into the depths of a mysterious fishing village in West Cornwall, where supernatural forces lurk in the shadows. In this chilling story, a young man's return to his childhood home unearths dark secrets and encounters with a malevolent creature known as 'Negotium Perambulans.' With elements of Gothic horror and psychological suspense, this atmospheric narrative explores themes of sin, punishment, and the blurred boundaries between the natural and the supernatural. Join us for a spine-tingling reading that will leave you questioning the nature of evil itself. #EFBenson #NegotiumPerambulans #HorrorStory #GothicFiction #SupernaturalTale #ChillingNarration #CreepyStory #DarkSecrets #Spooky #SinAndPunishment"
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[@clevelandplonsey7480]

Long live the Incoherent Waffle!

[@TheMrCougarful]

Came for a story, stayed for the waffle. Also, absolutely do post your own stories. I've really enjoyed them, especially knowing these are your own work.

[@ClassicGhost]

I need to get round to recording the new ones

[@lux.illuminaughty]

Wild agreement and encouragement to continue bringing your tales to us.

[@Wombats555]

Love this one. Perfect combination of quaint and gruesome!

[@Vates104]

Ab solutely one of the best Horror Story channels. ♠️Elliott O’Donnell deserves to be included in such an excellent interpretation. I suggest The Red Haired Coachman and The Pan Night Mystery

[@ClassicGhost]

I adapted one of his stories as the croglin vampire but he deserves his own slot

[@martiwilliams4592]

Vivid narration, spellbinding also this time around. Love your interesting, entertaining, informative "ramblings". And more of your own work, please. Thank you, Tony!

[@donaldmccleary9015]

Great story and narration! E.F. Benson talks a lot about religion in some of his stories. Makes sense because his dad was the Archbishop of Canterbury. I find it interesting how these older tales talk of religion often, and like how some authors weave it into a perfect blend of religion, mysticism, spiritualism, and magic. I really enjoy these stories and your rambles.

[@peterkordziel7047]

I look forward to hearing your "waffling after the stories, as I can get a bit of background and have some time to digest what I've heard. I've been meaning to comment for awhile, that your reading of " The Shepherd" was fantastic and really made that time feel like Christmas to me. Thanks and no complaints!

[@PaulMcCaffreyfmac]

I came here after searching this title in the context of Tales Of Mystery And Imagination, a series that deeply affected me in my young teens in the '60s. I anticipate great enjoyment and chills galore. Excellent!

[@CelebrimborCurufinwe]

Yeeees one of my favorite Benson stories, thank you!

[@melissabault9972]

Yes. Love your original stories and your waffles. You are a light in the dark that is America now.

[@toadyuk8391]

This is one of my favourite ever horrors. You must know this is based on Zennor ? There’s still many covens in st just and gurnsrds head. I grew up there and anything seems possible.

[@ClassicGhost]

i remember going to the chip shop in zennor years ago and having bread and butter and a bottle of beer (maybe brown ale) with my fish and chips. Paradise

[@tuomasronnberg5244]

Oh hey shout out for professor Hutton, his lectures are always super enthralling and he is a good speaker

[@c.djinmyr]

I'm actually quite fond of reading or listening to stories from avid readers. I find a number of them tend to approach writing from the perspective of a reader and what they might enjoy

[@wayn42]

Lovely thanks 🎉

[@walterfechter8080]

I came across this story, back in the 1960s, during a visit to a local bookstore. The story was in a compilation of horror stories. The book was in a bin full of older books, and the Latin title jumped out at me. The creature was very interesting. I associated it with something from a tale by Lovecraft. Many thanks, Tony. Greetings from my orange tabby ("Charlie Ginger Tigger").

[@ClassicGhost]

Say hello to Charlie Ginger Tigger!

[@walterfechter8080]

@@ClassicGhost 💖😸

[@jeanskora3879]

I love your original stories!

[@ohitbe3616]

I love these Benson stories. Keep On Keepin' On, Tony.

[@nancyM1313]

Very nice. thanks⚘

[@NIMM_VOID]

i would like to hear how to go about writing a horror story. maybe like a short story form, how you approach it, structure it, let it surprise you.. also i do enjoy your ramblings as much as your smooth gravely narration

[@ronaldmussulman2735]

Wow, what a picture!!

[@70schild420]

Listening to your narrations has helped me to expand my vocabulary.always room to grow and learn at any age❤️

[@ClassicGhost]

Mine too actually

[@lyndabrennan4560]

How wonderful, thank you Tony 💙 💛 💚

[@ClassicGhost]

Thanks for listening

[@ianjamesIU]

Western Kentucky.. Hidden off the normal beat path. Surrounded by an eerily quiet forest.. 9:15pm Electricity just went out due to a storm. Listening to these. I’ll say a candle and these stories do wonders. Paired with where I live. Very unsettling yet such a rush at the same time. 🖤

[@ClassicGhost]

Sounds great but scary too

[@BertieShaul-mn4qc]

I enjoy your ramblings. Great story!

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you kindly!

[@MaggieatPlay]

Always enjoy E. F. Benson. Yes, more of your stories. "The Little Man from Carlisle" is one of my favorites. Sometimes, I use it to fall asleep. Mostly, I like to listen to it while cooking or working a jigsaw: I find it an up-beat story. I think it never got posted to KZbin. Puppy love to the puppies!

[@ClassicGhost]

I am so pleased that you like that story. i’m never sure how well it goes down but i’m fond of it

[@ClassicGhost]

it’s floating around somewhere

[@CPower-kc8gu]

For some reason , I just love to listen to your stories while cooking. ❤👩‍🍳

[@jasonfx28]

Yay! I fixed my membership back on!!

[@Boogie_the_cat]

Yay! More Benson. I love your narration of this one. It's the best I've heard.

[@garybryant4293]

Hey man I love your original work and I'm not alone.

[@devincahoon830]

I would love to hear more of your own work!

[@SmallWonda]

You did a great job, as usual, of illuminating this dark, atmospheric tale, bringing the characters and Cornwall to life. I thought it was that place before he confirmed it! Yet, I'm not certain about the point of the evil entity. Yes, slugs are pretty foul creatures & do have a tendency to suck the life out of one's precious tender annuals, but are easily brushed aside. HOWEVER - had it been a leech - beloved of blood-letting physicians in the Middle Ages, perhaps even depicted in that old rood screen, that would have been a different things altogether! A leech I could imagine crawling through Time in search of satisfaction gurgitating with gusto the inebriated residents of its ancient lair clinging on, not to be parted from its obligation until every last drop of viability was drained to nothingness... Glad the animals are all happy in Tony's house - 26C is a little under 78F Perhaps you need a Vent Axia in the roof?!

[@fortunefavorsthebold3459]

"The business that walks in darkness" feels like the stage name of a 90's rnb backup dancer. Fun story!

[@ClassicGhost]

That was my life aim of course.

[@RSEFX]

REALLY LIKED this story a lot!----to put it simply. It does have that HPL sense about it. Thanks for choosing it to record. Also the end talk is quite interesting discussing the psychology and "Jungian"/deeper level of it. I fully agree that some things in stories like this are best left not entirely explained, but rather hinted at/left mysterious. As to vampires: NO, no more of those. Never found them particularly interesting and they've been done to death (pun both intended and not). Too ordinary for real scares, for generating terror, and this was also Lovecraft's contention. Thanks again. Bunches of thumbs ups!

[@ClassicGhost]

+RSEFX very kind comment.

[@stevenedwards4470]

I liked your Highgate Vampire story. I say keep at it.

[@ClassicGhost]

I am working on a story just for KZbin at the moment.

[@gillrippingale1173]

Listening today because it's raining and I can't be in the garden... Feels a bit odd Listening in summer. I listened throughout the Winter and the atmosphere must have seeped in ☺. Anyway, t'was a good reminder of the joys awaiting me when the dark days return ...I enjoyed this tale, and accompanying waffle, and plan to check out that Right/ Left brain book - sounds interesting! I really would love more of your own tales. Really enjoyed all the ones I heard so far. But now feeling a little bit guilty for not buying your books...maybe I will! Thankyou 😊

[@ClassicGhost]

I will get round to recording more of my own stuff when I finish all this on my list!

[@StoryVoracious]

Poor old E.F. He had a positive horror of natural things like slugs, caterpillars, and spiders. The great slug like thing that destroys in pious men whom fly in the face o the church's teachings. ... I wonder if this was his own Freudian fear. The thing that tormented him in his weak and lonely hours. Thanks Tony. Fab' as usual. You are the Meadowsweet and Mallow for a chafing day. 🤔🍆🍑😮😁

[@ClassicGhost]

I didn’t know that!

[@StoryVoracious]

It was you whom made me more interested in E.F, so I have been chasing him down and reading between lines. He seems to be saying a lot subrosa or unconsciously.

[@StoryVoracious]

At the risk of waffling myself, I suspect that George Pilsen, and Lucia together, were a kind of self portrait. His horror stories show his more morose side.

[@Bbergster]

Thanks, Tony! Needed a good one. How to I apply to this “high society?” Hope things are good! Volgate…. Woah.

[@DenWell-SeedsOfChaos]

I am H.P. Lovecraft's favorite fan 😀 He said so in a dream I had. Anyway, I had no idea he loved this story and Shadow Over Innsmouth was possibly inspired by it. (I hope I heard you right, I was multi-tasking during this video and I occasionally I hear what I want to hear and maybe fill in the blanks, ugh that is bad.) I am certainly more interested in E.F. Benson now... And yes, to you reading your own ghost stories, like "My Neice Allison" I just have to take another chance to rave about it again. It scared me shitless on 3 occasions. When I visualize driving through a dark and stormy Wales alone late at night, I feel sheer terror.

[@amyevans9042]

Love the "waffle"

[@ClassicGhost]

I cant stop anyway :)

[@danielrestione1355]

Love the waffle.

[@ClassicGhost]

thanks 🙏

[@ejtappan1802]

Personally, I thoroughly enjoy your incoherent rambles. Always look forward to your content; both written and unwritten.

[@maj0rsquish]

Oh I would happily take that course. Will it be available in the US?

[@lux.illuminaughty]

O, Waffle my lad, and we shall flock to you 😊

[@ClassicGhost]

i see what you did there!

[@Elder-Witch299]

Another great narration,Tony. Revenge of the slugs on all the gardeners out there. You may want to listen to 39.08 minutes in, you've got a bit of a talk over. Just trying to help, not criticise. I liked this weird little story. I'm picking up my new rescue dog today, he's the image of my dog that died in April this year. He's even the same cross breed! Hope your dogs pass doggy school with flying colours. x PS Yes I'd like to hear more of your own stories, they make a pleasant change to the stories that I've already read or heard. I think you have great talent, and I'd be interested in "How to Write a Ghost Story" when you do it. x

[@ClassicGhost]

that’s just the plug for patreon so not as concerned as if it had been the story

[@ClassicGhost]

i’ve done lesson one. I will get round to the rest when i have more time :)

[@brandyjean7015]

I laugh at your description of your pups & how they perceive the cat. My pup is being raised with a herd of cats: 8 formerly feral rescues. The eldest is grumpy & has made his boundaries clear: he gets respect. The 7 younger he still has hopes he can interact with more. My older dog helped raise all of those cats, so they are pretty chill. Time will tell.

[@stardust949]

Another thought, regarding other podcasts that deal in supernatural, nature, and horror-ish---"Old Gods of Appalachia" arising from the folk lore and hills of Tennessee and West Virginia (and thereabouts) here in the States. Check them out some time, really good story tellers.

[@ClassicGhost]

i have heard sone of their stuff . they seem pretty high quality

[@jamesblahut5008]

I will have to give your original works a listen and then answer your question. I wrote my thesis on Chaucer and medieval rhetoric, and I'm prejudiced towards literature that's not contemporary. I also wanted to say that your pronunciation of impious has me doubting mine.

[@ClassicGhost]

Very interesting. i got my impious from a narration of Paradise Lost. Impyus rather than Im-pie-us

[@ClassicGhost]

have you heard my Gawain and The Green Knight

[@jamesblahut5008]

@@ClassicGhost I felt confident that your pronunciation was a conscious decision. I might give it a try. It might be a bit posh for Indiana however. I did listen to your Gawain and the Green Knight, and it was well done. I think that Chaucer's English was more cosmopolitan than the Gawain poet's was, and therefore slightly more accessible. I wish that there was a really good audiobook version of the Decameron.

[@jamesblahut5008]

I should also say that I really enjoyed the new E.F. Benson reading.

[@stardust949]

Well, E.F. is certainly an evocative author, and I love a good "isolated village" story...but I just don't see sending a giant slug as retribution for desecrating a church! Honestly...what a revolting monster, but not very...appropriate? I don't know. It was a different age. A vampire slug as a manifestation of corruption? I think your puppies sound adorable. I ought to play more games with my sheltie.

[@elaineparker6171]

Yes to more waffle and your own stories too

[@ClassicGhost]

i will record more

[@DenWell-SeedsOfChaos]

I don't believe one should desecrate or vandalize anything, not because of religious reasons but because it's wrong. (My tone is sweet here not salty, I swear. 😊) Hey, your dog is called Jasper? I love that! From Rebecca, right? Oh, it has to be from Rebecca! That is awesome! 🥰🐕I have no idea why this makes me want to Happy Dance, why should I care? Who knows? Don't dash my moment by saying Jasper's name wasn't inspired by the story You are reading us right now, "Rebecca".

[@ClassicGhost]

I won't.

[@lyndabrennan4560]

I just want to say that I love your enthusiasm, you made me smile ☺

[@DenWell-SeedsOfChaos]

@@ClassicGhost Hey I meant to say "yes" read more of your own ghost stories -dammit- please. 😀 I don't know how I got off on another path of thought and forgot to vote, lols... 😄

[@DenWell-SeedsOfChaos]

@@lyndabrennan4560 Thanks! I wish people in my day-to-day life felt the same. 😊

[@lyndabrennan4560]

@@DenWell-SeedsOfChaos I know what you mean, but hey, you just got to rise above hun, I'm from the UK, sounds like you're from the states.

[@thurayya8905]

Waffling? Be the IHOP of KZbin!😅

[@davidwhite7294]

Negotium Perambulans sounds like it should be a plant….Busy Lizzie actually would,nt be a bad translation.

[@DavidSmith-sb2ix]

It's from Psalm 91. The pestilence that walketh in darkness.

[@davidwhite7294]

@@DavidSmith-sb2ix I know…..what I,m saying is that it’s a strange translation from the oldest version known which is in Latin. Negotium means business not pestilence therefore it,s a false and misleading translation.

[@DavidSmith-sb2ix]

@@davidwhite7294True but some translations describe it is trouble or something difficult. I agree that it is a stretch but all languages have words with very different meanings.

[@joanieann6179]

I really enjoy the nuances you use in your voice. That really does give a sense of "being there" in the person's head, life, surroundings. ❤ I have an "odd" (maybe) question... Why does the boy have to live in a shelter in his vicar uncle's garden? The boy's father was paying for his "keep" and it does appear the house had enough room for a boy since as an adult there was room for him to live with his aunt. 🤔

[@davidwhite7294]

Yes, I did,t get that…..did we miss something…anyone?

[@thurayya8905]

Yet another terror that could have been prevented with a flame thrower.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

I really thought the painter was the "creature"

[@tilt12345678]

Your pronunciation of Latin is acceptable. 👍😄

[@ClassicGhost]

tyvm!

[@tilt12345678]

@@ClassicGhost My comment may have come across as somewhat arrogant, and if that is the case, i would like to apologize as a matter of providence. Also, i would like to point out that people who can fluently speak Latin are rare these days. Thank you for the demonstration. 😁

[@hollywebster6844]

I like waffles. 😅

[@ClassicGhost]

Me too.

[@thurayya8905]

I find it humorous that E.F. Benson and other male writers of the nineteenth century found horror more credible than giving women the vote.

[@DavidSmith-sb2ix]

How they vote today is pretty horrible.

[@RandomJayne]

So "natural celibate" is what they used to call asexuals in old timey times?

[@ClassicGhost]

I think it takes in those who were asexual through preference and those who were asexual because their preference was illegal

[@DavidSmith-sb2ix]

He could be like me. I would never marry any woman who would have a person like me as her husband.

[@Josephinejefferies]

Didn’t enjoy this. Was yukked out beyond words

[@allierowland9]

Waffle fan.

[@sonnetlikely]

You have a great deal of knowledge and experience to share and I can’t wait to see where you go with it! It’s wonderful you are working to create a course to encourage others and share what you know. And yes, please, more of your own work and delightful talent! I love waffles of all kinds, so please continue and I shall stack my plate.

[@ClassicGhost]

we’ve done lesson one, it’s just finding the time to do lesson 2 now