The Spookiest Stories of E.F. Benson

[@bluegreenglue6565]

Speaking of horror stories, I'm currently packing up everything my son and I own as we are moving 844 miles West next week. Listening to spooky stories while engaging in this chore is both fitting and quite enjoyable. Thank you!

[@ClassicGhost]

Best of luck with your move.

[@MstresVampy]

Travel safely

[@Boogie_the_cat]

Moving is horrific. I moved in February and it's stressful! Best of luck to you and your son in the move.

[@JennyLane8666]

The West welcomes you! (California) I LOVE How Fear Left the Long Gallery, Tony. Thank you for this!!

[@bluegreenglue6565]

@@ClassicGhost Thank you.

[@mahaswetadas190]

Ah this channel so soothing

[@keddy5627]

Oh my gosh! I could listen to you all day! In fact, I DO! 😂😂😂🥰

[@kevincallahan9742]

My 8 year old falls asleep listening to your stories. He loves them.

[@Wombats555]

Thank you for putting me on to E F Benson it took a while for the penny to drop that a lot of the best ones are old Effie. Love the ramblings at the end as much as the stories, too, as wonderful as compilations like this are! It's a delightful to have both:)

[@richardgale1287]

I think many people encounter several EF Benson tales without making the connection because his 'spook stories' are so diverse: ghost stories, weird tales, vampire tales, psychic tales, even outright humour. His eagerness to stray from the 'antiquarian' ghost story is both his strength and perhaps the reason he's less revered than MR James.

[@martiwilliams4592]

Sleep? Not a chance! Have-to chores, however, vanish under your gripping narration. Thank you, Tony!!!!

[@carycary5824]

Thanks for the black screen. I’ve been sick for a week and haven’t been able to sleep for as many nights. If this occurs again tonight I’ll listen to this story again.

[@ClassicGhost]

Hope you sleep 💤

[@guitarjym]

I wouldn't have been have riveted reading these stories on my own. The Masterful Storytelling held me in a grip of anxious and fearful expectation. Thank you!

[@ClassicGhost]

thank you 😢

[@robertbruce7686]

Excellent selection of stories. Calling a bulldag "Fungus" did it for me 😂!!

[@GingerTomMom]

Your pleasant narration has helped me through post surgical healing. Thank you.

[@ClassicGhost]

I hope you are fully fit soon. Take care.

[@gailfattori6518]

I hope you've recovered.

[@gailfattori6518]

@@ClassicGhostLM

[@time4changenow]

Your voice @Tony Walker !!! ❤❤❤ and that’s from another voice who brings ❤ you are the best !

[@katestyrsky329]

E F Benson: greatest ghoststory writer ever. I've never read one of his that wasn't a delight.

[@mar1lync9]

These are great stories. I got the chills for real...you get better and better. Thank you

[@ClassicGhost]

Thanks for listening

[@applesandpears9756]

E.F Benson wrote the Mapp and Lucia stories. Wonderful.

[@anders4881]

E F Benson “Spook” stories are definitely among the best in the genre - and he wrote so many! The E F Benson Society has so much information about this fascinating man, his family and the society of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

[@ClassicGhost]

+@anders4881 I’ve just recorded another, so listen out for in the tube

[@SouthernBelle1959]

It's 6 minutes into Christmas Day,Merry Christmas Sir! I fell asleep listening to this story and woke up in a paralyzed terror. Best Christmas gift ever!! Thank you Tony,you are the best.

[@shaunlanighan813]

Thanks for this. I read "The Room in the Tower" when I was twelve and forgot/never forgot until I heard it here again.

[@Boogie_the_cat]

I love me some E.F. Benson. I'm going to save this for bedtime tonight. I notice this includes "The Outcast" which I am unfamiliar with, even though I've been on a Benson binge the last two days. Much appreciated, Mr. Walker, and good timing, since I had no idea what I should listen to tonight. Now I have that covered. It's been taking a couple hours to fall asleep lately (anxiety) and this video will see me through the long process. I live under the poverty line, but a small donation is better than nothing. I hope it doesn't come off as insulting, but I have to buy cat food too, and I just bought 84 pounds of cat litter, so I'm low on funds this month. Best wishes to you and your channel!

[@ClassicGhost]

thank you 🙏

[@roxanavasilakis9435]

Thanks dear Tony 🎉🌳

[@SC-jh9qp]

I had read the Mapp & Lucia novels long before I ever knew about his ghost stories. Delightful discovery.

[@mariameere5807]

Are they good? Hope you don’t mind me asking!? Blessings from west Ken 🙏🫶✨

[@katmartindale8049]

Until listening to this collection, I hadn't realized how many stories written by E. F. Benson I had read over the years. This was a delightful find to listen to while doing chores.

[@ClassicGhost]

+Kat Martindale thank you Kat

[@cynthiapate9138]

Great stories superbly read!!!

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you!

[@missdaisysunshine8633]

I used to call a library hotline to hear a prerecorded children's story. This reminds me of that. Love Tony so much!

[@lesreed9269]

Thanks for providing us with such good stuff. Cheers, Les.

[@ClassicGhost]

My pleasure! a thanks for liking it

[@sathurxy49]

Excellent! Looking forward to this. Big fan of E.F. Benson, and your narrations.

[@gailfattori6518]

You have a incredible, enchanting voice. I love listening to these old stories, because it seems that reading and. Books aren't as popular. I'm a bit addicted to listening to you.

[@g.williamportnoy]

I love the pictures, they're usually dark and gothic anyway, you have great taste with those. Turn the phone away and/or turn phone brightness down. Either way, your stories are the best, picture or not..

[@PinkyPuff69]

Oh God! I can't wait to listen to this tonight and drift off in a blissful, spooky old, haunted storytelling land;

[@LlorDrei]

I am highly curious if Benson used themes from H. P. Lovecraft in his story, Negotium Perambulans, much as Lovecraft mentions various authors in his works. Bits of Pickman's Model, the Deep Ones, Cthulhu, and Shoggoth can be seen here and there in the story. I would definitely add this story as a part of the ever-expanding Lovecraft Mythos. The next story, The Room in the Tower lends emphasis to poets and dreamers. I believe I would consider this story, as well, a part of the Mythos.

[@richardgale1287]

Rather the other way around. 'Negotium Perambulans' first appeared in Hutchinson’s Magazine in 1922, while 'Pickman’s Model' was written in 1926. Lovecraft’s essay 'Supernatural Horror in Literature' mentions it specifically, so I think we can consider it a significant influence.

[@itallia666]

🇬🇧 With reference to the 2nd story & the family called Peverrall or Peverill or Peverrell... Ive not come across the name before, not in life nor literature I say it because my Grandfather was a Peverrall ! It was his middle name but was his mothers maiden name. He often linked that name with his paternal surname so it was a double barrel one. He did this because his Army Regiment had a Private who had my Grandfathers surname & so as not to confuse or cause any mix up, my Grandfather added his middle name of Peverrall. My Grandmother used to tease him, saying he was acting like a snob just because he was Captain He didnt like a Private having the same surname! Haha Poor Grandpa, he'd go all grumpy But i suspect my Grandmother was nearer the truth! In those days, rank & standing were more important than they are now! Thank you so much for this collection of Fred ( EF) Bensons Wonderful tales. Ive read 95% of them now, plus his brother & sisters stories But its a thrill to find one id not known about. ( " Spinach " being a new discovery) Benson is one of the very few authors & whos stories i never get tired of hearing. MR James is another. Have you ever read any of Eric Brahmas tales of blind super sleuth Max Carridoc ? His stories are excellent. Well, Peace to All 🇬🇧👧

[@ClassicGhost]

No, I don't know Eric Brahmas's work. Thank you for the suggestion. I will look into it. I can't remember how it was spelled in the story now, but it is a name I've heard before. Is it a place-name originally -- i.e. your ancestors came from that place in the distant past?

[@itallia666]

@@ClassicGhost Im not that sure, my Grandfather was brought up on a family estate in rural North Northumbria & because they kept horses, by the time he was just a young chap he was an expert horseman. Hence his regiment being the Northumberland Hussars. I think my great grandmother was called Catherine Zanthe Peverrell or Peverrall. They may have lived in Alnmouth or Alnwick but its hazy to me now All i remember is being brought up at my Grandparents house with my parents too, inside High Gosforth Park, near the Racecourse. Then they moved to Brandling Park, Jesmond. Ive promised myself an Ancestry Kit, but firstly i want to do my Birth surname, paternal wise. Then after that i shall start on my mother's side & the Peverrall name. Its jolly fascinating stuff, i do know on my fathers side we owned lands in Elgin in Scotland but that was a very long time ago I was given good advice from a Genealogist years ago who said Stick to one surname on one side, Paternal or maternal Its too tempting if you research willy nilly into ones past & before you know it, you're bogged down with histories & names & people & you get into a real Tizz. So i intend to stick with my given Surname & go back as far as i can & my Ancestry Do Dah will help alot Then after that i'll go down my Mother's history! Thanks for the reply & your splendid narrations Peace 🇬🇧👧

[@ClassicGhost]

Yes, I ended up with a huge exploding cobweb of a story. Your grandparents sound very cool

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Peverill Of the Peak . by Sir Walter Scott. ( Google it ! )

[@mijiyoon5575]

Thank You *Tony*

[@leonaheraty3760]

Thank you! 😊

[@eileenferrari1816]

l like them as they were made no different to me .❤

[@martiwilliams4592]

ditto this time around: Thank you, Tony!

[@walterfechter8080]

Many years ago, I remember reading, "Negotium Perambulans." I forgot the story featured a particular ancient carved panel and not an ancient triptych. The story still gives me the shivers. Thank you, Tony.

[@fatherchristmas2998]

I love you reading all the ghost stories. Because your voice does not get in the way of the story. A good horror story could be. People who go in cryo chambers before they are actually dead .so what if your brain was active in there .and you experience a nightmare that lasted forever. Because you had no muscle activity to bring you out of the night. If you were born in a space ship you would panic before you were put in suspended animation .because you would fear dreaming the same endless dream.

[@jeremyw.norwood1453]

\|/ Nine hells! I must say, this chanced upon discovery is a nice lil' fortunate happenstance... I suppose that it would have once been a thing that struck me as seeming odd, the fact that I'd never yet before even encountered a hint of this channel's existence. Especially considering exactly how avid a dèvouğụar of just such type of literary content as is this... A pleasingly effortless hobby and one which I have so readily been drawn toward ever since I'd the luck of expanding my allocation of leisure time into being, all the time there is... and thus, these past many years I have often spent several hours of an evening in restful repose and, eyes closed, lay there hungrily consuming such soothing narratives and painting the scenes being detailed by narrators such as yourself in my minds eye. This has obviously been done to differing results, each varying by degrees according to their creators particular perchance for narration and the vastly differing qualities of tonal resonances each of them have displayed. Thus, my find of this fresh source of seemingly quality content, and it being provided by an impressively nuanced narrator like yourself is an extremely satisfactory happening... and it's looking to be like it may be turning into the most promising of this year's new channel candidates! As, I found your skill and quality of tone as it has sounded, here, in these few tales... to just be one of the best out of the recent finds in terms of it's overall quality and its cadences' pacing. This channel's content, alongside the apparent high quality of your narration work, is the most promising find that I have made in this regard for, oh, quite a good many years, now. I dig it, a lot... and so, I would like to thank you for the efforts you've clearly given to the making of such quality storytelling. Know, that IF there are still natural born bards to be found in this day and age, then you my friend just may indeed qualify as being such! The very best of luck to ya, my man... I feel you have what it takes to provide some excellent content & grow your subscriber base. ❤😊

[@charissachubb5758]

0:27 How Fear Departed The Long Gallery 36:16 The Outcast 1:16:50 The House With The Brick Kiln 1:44:16 Between The Lights 2:10:20 Negotium Perambulans 2:48:53 The Room In The Tower.

[@mariameere5807]

Thank you so much 😊 you are a v kind soul! Love it when someone takes the time to do this! U have good karma now so do the lottery just incase!🙏🫶✨ 💫💜✨🔮✨💜💫

[@charissachubb5758]

@@mariameere5807 Thank you! I started listening then fell asleep, so thought I'd listen again and make a note of the times. Too right, I need a big win! 😃

[@ainemoroney9965]

Where do you get the time and energy Tony?! Thank you for spoiling us ❤😊

[@ClassicGhost]

@@ainemoroney9965next friday is the night? i was away again but back now

[@ainemoroney9965]

@@ClassicGhost you are correct Tony, this Friday ☺️👌

[@chancest.thomas5160]

I dug it Less Than 10 Minutes in. I fell asleep 30 Minutes in.

[@ClassicGhost]

I'll take that as a compliment

[@richardgale1287]

You fell asleep in the Long Gallery? I'm not sure that's wise.

[@mzeewatk846]

I don’t get why you upload all of these stories in a single podcast. They could all stand alone. : )

[@ClassicGhost]

they are also available as stand alone but sone people like long episodes so i try to cater for both

[@janflower4068]

It has been requested that that person cover their device so the rest of us can see things we like on the screen😘

[@ClassicGhost]

I know. I know.

[@bluegreenglue6565]

I've been known to throw a garment over my screen if I want darkness. : )

[@gerry5134]

"You tried to get into the locked drawer again didnt you ?" Yes, bcz you keep breaking into my home and stealing the key !

[@vanillasuncherries]

I think the dead come back by focusing their intention to

[@1111sage]

After months of listening to hell house .

[@marvwatkins7029]

If they fall asleep, they'll miss the story. This defeats the purpose.

[@lillybarber8737]

perhaps there are some things you will never understand

[@thegreencat9947]

Oh...I like it when you take all night....

[@shaftomite007]

Speaking of horror stories: Trump just got re-elected

[@mariameere5807]

Thank you so much Tony! Too bloomin hot to sleep so this is exactly what I needed! Thank you so much algorithm’s! Over subscribing causes me to miss a lot of things but I always am lucky enough to catch your genius! How fear departed the long gallery is one of the best short stories of any genre I have ever read/heard! Especially when read by you! We should never take for granted the pleasure of being read to! One of my favourite things in life! Brightest of blessings “Angel of entertainment!”🫶🎭