The Experiment by MR James

[@ClassicGhost]

Heck that bell is loud... I hope it doesn't ring again. Listen to the Mezzotint maybe? kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZzbgohtgM6onK8

[@stardust949]

sounds like a good story too---a shame about the bell overwhelming your reading.

[@cindyragsdale2144]

If I remember the story properly that first bell should be the only one, and nothing critical lost storywise.

[@mariameere5807]

@@cindyragsdale2144 Exactly! 🔔

[@siliconpenguin]

I couldn't hear anything you said while the bell was ringing... oh well

[@mariameere5807]

@@siliconpenguin don’t worry Terry! I could hear it and it didn’t affect the story! People learn from their experiences, especially people like Tony!

[@MartiWilliams-r2z]

Big fan of James and your vivid narration enhancing this tale and commentary. Perfect!

[@bethpemberton7980]

Hhollyy Cow!! That bell effect shot me straight out of the covers. The cats scattered and I near upset a tumbler of iced tea. Tone that down, Tony!!! Love your stuff, btw. Esp the accents.

[@mariameere5807]

🤣🤣I can’t stop giggling with the image you portrayed!🔔 Tony’s stories are good enough, and the reading of them is good enough, it doesn’t need Sound effects! They’re a nice bonus, But this channel is Great so it doesn’t need them!

[@soundsilence2604]

I laughed way too hard at this! Your comment is as good as the story itself. 😂

[@mariameere5807]

@@soundsilence2604 I know! Funny lady! But clearly a big fan of Tony like myself! I was so disappointed to see she didn’t have any playlists, sometimes you can tell by Someone’s comments if they have good playlists with good videos!

[@donaldmccleary9015]

Awesome job! Thanks! I love the tales of revenge! There is nothing better than seeing a n'er-do-well get their due! I like the description of the mysterious and raspy figure at the end. Keep up the good work!!

[@keithcrooks7217]

yeah you've got the volume dial on 11 for that bell - can't hear a blasted word over that lol!

[@ClassicGhost]

oh no!...

[@jturtle5318]

I thought it was meant to be background chatter while the bell tolled.

[@rheinhartsilvento2576]

Yes! It way too loud!!😂🤭

[@maj0rsquish]

Same here. Couldn't hear a fan thing other than the bell

[@lisawhite-pagano3455]

What did I miss when the bell was going crazy?

[@jeremypearson6852]

I think you must have been recording Big Ben at the beginning!

[@martiwilliams4592]

Once again, masterful presentation and entertaining, informative commentary. Thank you again!

[@hilaryeales1268]

"I can't sing"........made me lol 😂💙💚💜

[@Scarter63]

Allright! Good one! Flashback to AC/DC's Hells Bells, though. lol

[@L.Ron.Hoyabembe]

More bell please.

[@ClassicGhost]

I think the bell effect is massively underappreciated so I am glad to have found a fan like me.

[@susanhepburn6040]

M.R. James may have done away, largely, with certain Gothic elements but Canon Alberic's Scrapbook and even The Tractate Middoth certainly have ruined monasteries and eccliastical shivers! The Experiment is a story I haven't previously come across, so thank you for this!

[@blixten2928]

This I've always found is one of the most suggestive, enigmatic of James stories. "Why didn't you cover his face?" again and again (if I remember correctly). Half-remembered fragments, lost laments, shadowy, partially sketched figures: I love it for that reason. A great choice!!

[@martiwilliams4592]

Weird. Must listen again tomarrow to catch everything. Yes the bell was is loud, but I thought it was an effect and supposed to be that way. Thank you!

[@JimBagby74]

James was the best. I wish he'd written more.

[@tomsdottir]

The way you read the dead man's words at the end made my blood run cold. Thankyou! A lesser known James, but thoroughly enjoyable for all that.

[@ClassicGhost]

Thanks a lot! I like the idea of making people’s blood run cold

[@mariameere5807]

Thank you Tony! Good story, great accent!

[@ClassicGhost]

Glad you enjoyed it. It's my standard English country folk accent.

[@mariameere5807]

@@ClassicGhost Very good! You did a couple of different English accents In that if I remember correctly! I am fascinated by accents, Even though I’ve only been living here since I was 15 almost 16! I do all of the accents really well... so I’m told, i’m still working on the Scottish one, very strong Scottish accent, but they have lots of different Scottish accents, I think it’s because I used to play the piano and I had perfect pitch because I started when I was three and finished it (unlike my brothers who hated it and quit, I took to it like a duck to water) and then I did teaching for the Royal Academy, Just children, I thought if I heard Mary had a little lamb one more time I would end up in prison for walking the kids over the back of the head with a wok!!! Joke joke joke!! I always thought it was strange that the Royal Academy was in Ireland because it was the only English thing we had in the Republic! Irish people are over patriotic if you ask me. Apparently it’s completely different now! They embrace everything British compared to when I was growing up there! Sorry I keep jumping off topic! Anyway I ended up paying for tips for rich American tourists in the posh hotels, Then I met somebody who invited me to his room after a few drinks (at that age I couldn’t hold my drink) and I had some cocaine for the first time, eventually it led to me going to All the best hotels in London but for a very different purpose and usually £500 an hour if you get my meaning! It was motivated by cocaine addiction but eventually I went to rehab, this was after my new death experience which was a cocaine and heroin overdose! Addictions tend to grow, They gather momentum. My dad was an alcoholic so was everybody on his side of the family addicted to something or other! My aunt was a reporter for Irish television and she used to pop pills and drink for Dutch courage and she was a workaholic just like my dad! He stopped drinking and sent me to therapy, along with my mum and brothers which is how I discovered spirituality and self-help books! So I balance it with these channels because the paranormal interests me and when you look at a lot of spiritual stuff you need a bit of the Darkside, I’m a Libra I need balance! By the way I Advertised your channel on an American channel like this! The only reason I’m on it is because they have a long book by a British author it’s about 10 hours long of short stories I think, no it’s a series! You will never read this, it’s too long! Yes I told them that you do Victorian ghost stories and British folk horror, so many people asked me for the link! One man said the only thing he knew that was British was the wicker man! I also told them about the other two channels that I watch, one of them is classic bite-size and the other is encrypted horror, In my opinion these are the best story telling channels in the entire world wide web! They are enough to satisfy me, except for my interest in Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers! Honestly! Have a fabulous week and good luck in all you do! I’m looking forward to reading a story that you’ve actually written, you tend to make modern stories interesting again! Once more apologies about the length of the message! Once I start ✍️🤦🏼‍♀️ take care of yourself Tony! 🕊💛🌟✨👑✨🌟💛🕊

[@OrangeTabbyCat]

I just had to laugh so hard I spit my tea out. Well..that was unexpected. 🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔 it was fuuuunyyyy!

[@ClassicGhost]

Are you talking about the bell.....?

[@OrangeTabbyCat]

Classic Ghost Stories Podcast - Tony Walker What gives you that idea?

[@berfwellington2552]

This couldn’t have come at a better time. All of the Christopher Lee narrated M.R. James stories seem to have been scrubbed from the Internet (can’t even find them to purchase via download) and I have been hankering to hear a good narrator give a crack at an M.R James story, and a story I’ve haven’t read no less.

[@jturtle5318]

Do you have this one? kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGibmn2of62cr6M

[@jhb1493]

With all due respect and gratitude to Tony for his excellent work, if you are looking for more M.R. James stories read very well, those recorded by the late, lamented Michael Hordern are second to none, although incomplete. There are also complete recordings of all James' works by David Collings which are excellent. Both can be found easily online.

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

Here's one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5LcfH55ns2on7c&ab_channel=RpgRonin0

[@wmnoffaith1]

I'm so glad you did this one. All channels always record the same ones, and this, which I think is one of the best, is always overlooked. Thank you. 😊

[@ClassicGhost]

To go where no one has gone before....! Maybe a few people did.

[@wmnoffaith1]

@@ClassicGhost 🙂

[@martiwilliams4592]

Just listened this on tv for better sound -- equally as ensnaring this time. Love the accent. Your presentation, as always masterful. Thank you!

[@ClassicGhost]

What about the bell Marti

[@martiwilliams4592]

@@ClassicGhost Although I know now it was unintentional, I think it is the way they might have sounded to real people, although I know they are inventions of imagination. After all, Tony, while you read ,they/the situation become real--for a little while. Call it escapism if you will.We fans are a moltey bunchThank you!!!!!

[@kokokiki6310]

I have just found your narrated stories and I wanted to say thank you. I love your narration style and especially like how you have a talk at the end. I have only listened to a few so far, lucky me. Cheers from New Zealand.

[@grahamturner1290]

M. R. James, an impeccable choice.

[@MSYNGWIE12]

Hi Tony, those bells, were a tad overbelling! Sorry! Couldn't resist. I really enjoyed your change of pitch for the various characters, really added atmosphere- to distinguish classes- M.R.James isn't "jump scene" type of ghost story author, at least not to mind- how would you classify him. I always feel he was STERN. And I need to listen again, daytime, NO HEADPHONES! Been advised to go for walks to better ingest my probiotic capsule, supposed to be good for depression...Namaste. Zizi Jeanmaire! (promised self not to write anything, anymore- and no, I haven't bought James Merrill yet- 3 books sitting on simmer, waiting for lottery win! Wish I was smart enough to tutor kids in English, etc.)

[@ClassicGhost]

I think probiotics are good. At one point I made my own kefir. That was fine and I had it for months. Then I tried my own kimchi. That was rank and I was scared to eat it.

[@clarewilde972]

Just to say - not a crit or complaint but just to let you know - I couldn't hear anything you said at all while the bell was bonging. I love your work, looking forward to the next one and thank you for doing what you do.

[@ClassicGhost]

The bell? Sorry about that . You’re not he only one to be discomfited by it’s boom. I can’t remix it unfortunately

[@RogertheGS]

Um, the bell around 1:25 drowns out the reading .. hope you're recording multi-track?

[@suspendeddisbelief401]

Oh my, do you think you got enough feedback about the bells? Want some more?.....joking. Hells bells!

[@ClassicGhost]

it was funny though

[@teddydog6229]

Someone shut up that infernal bell ! I couldn't hear a word Tony said !

[@teddydog6229]

Did you know Faulkner wrote a whole novel about a family that needed a coffin ? An irksome read it was too. This was far better.

[@ClassicGhost]

I didn't know that. I remember the Ambrose Bierce story about a man who sits by a coffin.

[@teddydog6229]

@@ClassicGhost The tale of how a man may be dressed in his finest yet still be in rags ? I think I read that one too. I hope you have 'The Devil's Dictionary' by the old curmudgeon.

[@susanmercurio1060]

I think the bell is perfect: just the way it would sound if it was ringing overhead.

[@ClassicGhost]

I like that you say that

[@auntyJanette]

I agree with you about the last scene. A great story. Thanks.

[@ClassicGhost]

Harry I’ve got a story for you coming up soon

[@auntyJanette]

@@ClassicGhost I’m listening to the Nordic one right now. It’s excellent. Not finished yet. I’ll stay tuned in all day to your studio. 🌟🌟

[@debbieramsey8933]

Couldn’t hear background dialogue for the bell

[@aprildragas2807]

First view ☺️ Thank you!

[@janetcw9808]

I did get an 'AHA' moment, I'd better listen again.... 🤔 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

[@kathyorourke9273]

You complain about a bell when he’s done so much for us????? Shame on you complainers!

[@NajwaLaylah]

I could not hear the dialogue over the sound of the bell.

[@ClassicGhost]

Sorry. It didn’t sound so bad when I mixed it

[@NajwaLaylah]

@@ClassicGhost It was more comical than truly annoying.

[@nidonidz]

the bell sound is too loud , Can hardly hear anything :(

[@ClassicGhost]

But only for a few seconds?!

[@2476bunny]

never heard a bell,what part lolol

[@ClassicGhost]

I like this comment

[@sugarfalls1]

What's up with the bell? We missed everything you said while the bell was ringing! Grrr!!! Was that supposed to be there? wtf! Oh, btw, your accents were superb! And I've been meaning to ask you, what part of England are you from? Midlands? I'd really like to know about the bell too...was that intentional?

[@ClassicGhost]

+sugarfalls1 no the bell sounded ok in the mix. Not when it was up on KZbin. I’m a northerner. Right by the Scottish border

[@ludovica8221]

Cant hear a word that is being said behind the tolling bell.

[@ClassicGhost]

+Ludo Vica indeex

[@maryannebeyer8934]

Bell too loud .. Couldnt hear the conservative Over the tolling of it

[@ClassicGhost]

You’re not the only one to say that

[@lindajarvis4517]

Impossible the bell is far too loud, drowns out the story

[@ClassicGhost]

+Linda Jarvis Yep. But only for a few seconds

[@lindajarvis4517]

@@ClassicGhost but it makes one jump & rush to reduce the volume (especially when listening at night) please can you re-do that section without the "THE BELLS"

[@sarahsamaria8283]

Nice touch with the sound of bell. This story has reminesences of the film "Requiem". Quite like the way the story is written. The Death then the explanation behind it. The spirits coming to give answers. As always well delivered by Tony.

[@ClassicGhost]

Funny what you say about the bell :) Thanks for your nice words

[@sandhyamathura]

THAT DAMN BELL SFX ! Cut off 5 sentences of dialogue. Please don't put it SFX. Unnecessary. Distracting. LOUD.

[@ClassicGhost]

Cut the capitals please