"The Lonesome Place" by August Derleth | Classic horror stories | Audio narration

[@EnCryptedHorror]

A bonus story this week, a reading of August Derleth's classic tale of childhood fears. It's almost a bit experimental, this one. Hope you like it. Coming up soon...another classic ghost story, more silly magazine stories, and (at last! Sorry for the delay) the latest EnCrypted Postmortem for paying Patreons and YT channel members...CONTENT ADVICE: Englishman attempts American accent 🇬🇧💂‍♀️🇺🇸 🤠😬

[@-Reagan]

Wow Your American accent is superb! I’m so impressed - You have me wondering which of your accents is authentic to you! I was so excited to see you posted this, to have Ian Gordon and Jasper L’estrange in the same day is a huge treat! Just in time to help the evening summer showers break the oppressive heat wave with chill bumps 🖤 Thank you!!

[@stephaniestevenson6335]

@@EnCryptedHorror The Oscar Meyer Hot dog company has taught Americans to call it "Baloney" which is also another word for BS or cow patties. Makes lunch meat sound enticing.

[@mtmuller]

Oh yes! More of those silly magazine stories please. With your commentary. Had me laughing listening. I really enjoyed those. Meant to look up that mag...I assume it was real. There was a similar one in Italy I used to read that a certain bar used to have all the time.

[@violetfemme411]

Oh Jasper. You always make me chuckle no matter how much I'm certain I can't 😊💜

[@evelanpatton]

I think your American accent sounds THROUGHLY AUTHENTIC, for the educated western coast. We out west don’t have an exaggerated vowel accent, less “oval” (southern) or “rOUnd-ah” (Midwest), or “square” (: East :), or “bowed” (localized East or Midwest). Anyway. It definitely could have been my neighbor. From a PNW-U.S.-er. 🖤

[@marjie012000]

Thank you Jasper. I loved this story and your mild American accent was just right for it. Great 👍 😊

[@woolybullybananapeel8642]

If you keep this up you’re going to put me into a euphoric coma of Encrypted joy!!! Another engrossing tale perfectly executed! It gave my brain lots to reminisce and chew on about the dark nooks of my own childhood terrors and how they’ve evolved into an enthusiastic love for the horror genre. Wonderful story! You must be working like a mad man! I wholeheartedly thank you and appreciate all your toil! 🐙

[@BennyLlama39]

Jasper, while there's an occasional hint of your English accent, I'd say your Anywhere, USA accent is pretty good. I mean, it's a hell of a lot better than my attempts at an English accent. 😀

[@shelleymarquis2887]

Bravo! I hope you're very proud of yourself. Now I'm afraid to walk through the short hallway, 12 feet long, to go to bed later because the light switch is at the other end from where I sit listening to childhood fears. I remember the walk home from 4 houses down the street from our house when I had to go without my older brother. He got to stay out with his friend longer than I did and he made sure I was terrified of the lonesome place between our mailbox and front door. I was maybe 9 at the time. I tried every time, with all the single mindedness of an uncluttered child mind, to force myself to walk that short distance. Never walked it once. I'd hit the screen door at full speed and my step father would bellow "Take it easy on that door and shut the light!" Those were the most welcome words in my short life then. They meant I was safely back in the world of the known, where he bellowed, but also loved me and was never really angry. I'd forgotten it until tonight. Words are magic in the right mouth. I like your American accent. It reminds me of a sort of back woods upstate New Englander who has traveled much and retains just a smidgen of the original accent. Well done, you hoodoo, you. ❤

[@libertycowboy2495]

Jasper is easily the best spooky narrator on KZbin ❤🦇

[@stephaniestevenson6335]

You have been so prolific lately that I can't handle it! Thanks Jasper for your talented performances!

[@taliabee8661]

Don’t put him off! 🤣🤣 Keep ‘em coming, fella! ♥️♥️

[@petere5826]

Boom boom boom. Mr Jasper you are on a serious roll. Im still trying to figure out the horror chicken story from last episode !

[@SusanMarie3]

Creeeeepy - childhood fears - I was number 5 of 6 kids. When my parents would have a night out (once every few months 🤣) one of my older brothers would propose hide and seek - he would always pretend to turn into a monster searching the house for someone to eat. I would be shaking in my hiding spot praying he found one of my sisters first 🫣

[@donaldmccleary9015]

Excellent story and narration! You have a great American accent. We all had a place like this growing up. Passing it caused our nerves to be on edge, and when we got home we were so relieved. The things we thought lurked out there... I find the light pollution, population growth, 24/7 traffic, and increased background noise dissipate the feelings nowadays. As always, the sounds and environmental/background noise fits the story soooo well. Fantastic job, my friend! You have been spoiling us lately.

[@marieeab01]

Thankyou once more and a late but big 😹 for the back to back Mrs Slocumbe clips. I’m not usually a lover of the ‘carry on’ type innuendos but her deliverance was brilliant and seeing them condensed was side splitting. You’re a treasure Oh and more silly mag stories, hillarious! and to see my poor husband looking at me with dismay makes me laugh even more.

[@EnCryptedHorror]

No matter how many times I watch that video it still has me laughing! 😆

[@thurayya8905]

Wonderful story with evocative reading. Thank you.

[@susanm7925]

Ahhh, August Derleth....Wisconsin's very own H.P. Lovecraft. Simpler times were the scariest & this was a bone chiller. Thanx 4 a great narrative.

[@meese9140]

Are there any other of his stories you’d recommend?

[@WilliamTuckwell-r8b]

A lot of us probably had a place like this. For me it was an old house set back on its big block with lots of trees and shrubbery around . Walking home alone at night after football training at the grand old age of 8 , in a regional Queensland town, would see me break into a run as I passed this house. It was always dimly lit or completely dark and spooked me for some reason. I still recall it clearly 50 or more years later. And it sounded great Thankyou.

[@unclevlad3357]

Hooley dooley, no one can read a story like you do! Riveting, like I was there. Thank you.

[@BertieShaul-mn4qc]

Thank you, I love your silly magazine stories!

[@EnCryptedHorror]

Hopefully I've found some of the silliest yet. There's one about a woman being stalked by a squirrel.

[@BertieShaul-mn4qc]

@@EnCryptedHorror lol!

[@briandouglasahern7067]

Phenomenal! This was absolutely chilling. At first, I thought we had a guest narrator. This tale brought me right back to my own childhood Lonely Places that terrified me to walk past or through.

[@briangreen1781]

Wow! I love this. The narration, music, and background sounds are spectacular. Thank you.

[@SandyBrrr]

OoOOoo a bonus episode! You spoil us rotten. Happy Friday! Thank you Mr.J.

[@shadownet3d]

Very well done!

[@joedge6142]

Great, another story to take on holiday with me, thanks Jasper, these will help pass the time on a six hour drive. I've put all my favourites in my YT downloads.

[@clairegreenaway9653]

You really are spoiling us Jasper!Thankyou so much 🥰

[@donaldmccleary9015]

Forgot to mention how awesomely hainting and chilling your opening to this story is. Fantastic!

[@lastofthe4horsemen279]

.. this voice was killer.Badass Jasper

[@bburns2478]

Couldn't believe we got an extra reading this week!!!!! This story actually moved me to tears, so sad and heart wrenching.

[@annetteeggett]

You are spoiling us Jasper. I thank you from the bottom of my heart to the top ❤❤😊👻👻

[@rickmills4801]

And I am really glad that you're doing August Derleth!

[@michaelgreaves2375]

There's nothing quite like August in July...

[@TheCuttingBureau]

In addition to the excellent reading, I think you always have very adroit and tasteful sound design/sample choice, production and mastering. Nice work, Jasper. : )

[@EnCryptedHorror]

@@TheCuttingBureau Thank you, I've made the odd technical blunder and a few misjudgements along the way, but I think they're sounding better. Thanks for the great feedback!

[@Jynxxxycat]

This was one of the first horror stories I ever read, and it has stuck with me, for 45 years.

[@principlephotography]

This was absolutely fantastic!

[@kimbarnett3458]

I so enjoyed this story and the narrative as I did the background music and sounds. Everything was perfect. Thank you

[@kelliesmith2189]

It’s Christmas in July!!! Exactly what I wanted , a bonus story!!🎉❤

[@Story-Voracious66]

Hmmm... Loved it Jasper. You alway bring your unique touch to these stories. They unfold like a pop-up book in the mind and I walk right in. As to the "hmmm..." I couldn't help pouncing on the "it" mentioned. How "it", lurked in the shadows of this small town American place. Everything needs a seed to grow I guess. Monsters of the mind could sprout up anywhere, even in Derry USA. 🤡

[@EnCryptedHorror]

Yes! Thank you! It's so hard not to read this story and think (a) Stephen King must have taken it as inspiration for "It" in some way and (b) that this very short story does what "It" does with the breathless economy of a few thousand words compared to King's doorstop novel...even though 12-year-old me adored that novel and King has probably been typically open about his influences (if I wanted to do the research).

[@jessisage4708]

Why thank you Jasper ❤

[@JohnWilliams-fc3xi]

that was excellent!

[@trixie10199]

That was a chilling tale… Hope I can sleep tonight, Thanks!

[@XadrumLtd]

Great story, a new one on me. Decidedly chilling. 🥶

[@nancyM1313-Boo]

I liked it! ❤🕊 Thanks Jasper

[@mijiyoon5575]

I like this story & your accent is fine *Jasper* Thank You

[@joereilly8028]

Ooh great story and fantastic American accent Thanks Jasper

[@jeffhaley2706]

Your generic American accent is very good Jasper..

[@cronchyskull]

The Generican Accent, if you will

[@andersonfilmandsound]

Bloomin Eck Jasper.. your Voicework is excellent on this piece. Similar feels to the animated production of Charles Bukowski's The Man With The Beautiful Eyes.

[@rosiemcnaughton9933]

Thanks again! Good one.

[@jackyhawkins1895]

Love the American accent and the background sounds. Thank you 😊

[@evelanpatton]

🎉Are you kidding, three stories in a quick row form our RENOWNED Le’Strange- we ARE the LUCKY ONES! 🎉

[@mijiyoon5575]

Have to re~listen. What exactly is his fear? Some fears are real, some imagined. It's those imagined fears that are the killers, so to speak

[@EnCryptedHorror]

@mijiyoon5575 Yes, I suppose it's a story about the power of fear. That you can almost will something terrifying into existence if your fear goes unchecked. But ultimately it is *we* who give dark, silent, lonesome places their spooky power.

[@kitsorcerer]

For me, the lonesome place was an open dark room in a dark hallway. I thought The scariest creature i can imagine was lurking just inches from the dark and waiting to silently snatch me away.

[@craigoliver8712]

For all his assumed guilt he can't help but get a jibe in concerning poor little Bobby's weight issues.I think the guy is "projecting" I'd be asking his whereabouts if i was the law

[@williamfawkes8379]

I thought he was a goner when he went into the woodshed with little Johnny.

[@mijiyoon5575]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@mijiyoon5575]

After re~listening ... maybe the main character is afraid of death . He is afraid to die & go into that awful, unknown, lonely place that we will all face. Then again, maybe I miss the entire point of this story🤔The narrator or POV is a child so ...

[@ottopippenger1590]

Your America accent is good, except, (if you're interested/open to notes) that you keep adding a southern drawl on "Ah" sounds and periodically when emphasizing a word or phrase, into what is otherwise a northern/eastern accent. Not a fan of Derleth in general, but this is one of his best- almost a Bradburian or King tone, which suits him better than bowdlerizing Lovecraft.

[@EnCryptedHorror]

I am open to notes. I consciously try to avoid slipping into a southern US accent but I wonder if the drawl you hear is partly my own southern English drawl creeping in when I get too involved in the reading and lose the accent. I'll try and hold myself in check next time 😄 Oh, and yes, I agree. Very Bradbury.

[@ottopippenger1590]

@@EnCryptedHorror It's an excellent American accent overall, it may indeed be the southern/rp drawl creeping in- just think "as flat as possible" at all times and you'll get the midwest-california standard TV voice down

[@ottopippenger1590]

@@EnCryptedHorror Oh, and as ever, keep up the amazing work! Your performances and sound engineering/music choices can bring new life into and reveal new facets for even the most familiar stories. You are absolutely the best in the game!

[@4362mont]

OOOPS [SPOILER] Those kids created an egregore!

[@JennyLane8666]

You inspire me greatly, J... your performances are incredibly nuanced while still moving me to tears, and regularly raising the hairs on the back of my neck... I am so grateful I found your channel. Thank you for all you do.