The Underground by R. Chetwynd-Hayes

[@donnasandstrom6286]

Gotta love a content creator who actually cares about his listeners. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication. Greatly appreciated.

[@DanielSmith-dj8ek]

Your narrations, your accents and the way you deliver a story are the stuff of legend! Taig O'Kane was a masterpiece!! You love what you do, so just keep doing it!! Thank you, Tony. X

[@janglaschu]

I enjoy the discussion of the stories very much, it adds a lot to the enjoyment. Thanks!

[@dodiekoehler]

I really like the story. The end really surprised me, that doesn't happen often. I look forward to your insight about the story and the writing. And yes, I find it very educational. I always learn something. I thank you for that. I dislike click bait, I'm pleased when creators, do not use it.

[@franken-pattern]

I had chores to do today, and I just sat down. Imagine my delight to see another wonderful tale uploaded a few minutes ago! I got a reward for being good to myself 😅 Thank you, Mr Walker 🎉🎉🎉

[@maury0009]

The sound quality is spot on! 👌🏻 Your dedication and the generosity with which you share these beautiful readings truly mean a lot. Thank you for bringing these stories to life and for all the hard work you put in. 🌟

[@lindasmith6202]

I agree about the sound! I hate when I am tempted by a story only to find I can't hear it.

[@countiblis1246]

My childhood introduction to Horror was watching the old Amicus anthologies back in the 70's when Appointment with Fear was on ITV. I still love them to this day.

[@thurayya8905]

I love your "take apart and then put back together" of the story at the end. It helps me a great deal in processing it. When you mentioned Hades, I realized that was where my unconscious mind was groping. A couple of little things struck me. One was the description of the soldier's grey eyes and her father's grey eyes, which took on more meaning at the end. Also, when the soldier disappears, a nice man with rimless glasses takes his place. I see that as a ray of hope for the future. Once Harold has buggered off (STAY lost, Harold!) and the ghost of the soldier has been exposed, her future is now clear to begin.

[@maryeckel9682]

I couldn't imagine a worse fate than 40 years with Harold.

[@ClassicGhost]

Yes, a lovely subtle little thing about the eyes

[@nancyrogalewski4017]

Loved this. I love when the ending surprises me and this one did.

[@MartiWilliams-r2z]

Chilling, gripping, disturbing tale with the elegant imagery, word-painting language that I love, enhanced by the vivid, expressive voices of your narration. Enjoy your commentary, which leaves us with much new information to think about. Thanks so much, Tony, For all of your hard work for us. Much appreciated.

[@along5925]

Description is intriguing! Thanks very much, Tony. I'm looking forward to it tonight.

[@rachael7060]

I enjoyed it.

[@BertieShaul-mn4qc]

I find your commentaries very educational ❤❤😊😊🎉🎉

[@edf777]

Thank you sir 😊❤

[@leoniem6920]

I haven't read any of this authors stories. Thanks for bringing this to life in your inimitable way! If only we'd had delicious stories like this to study at school.

[@stellacollins3114]

Beautifully read as always, I was totally convinced it was set in the 1960's so was shocked to find it set in the 1980's

[@tuomasronnberg5244]

Same, I thought it was set in the 1960s too.

[@marieeab01]

Such a cool story an enthralling listen, thank you.

[@maryeckel9682]

What an intriguing story! I felt that the specter of 40 years with Harold was the real horror 😂

[@thurayya8905]

Can't wait to hear this one.✨️💛👻✨️

[@MarianneOrent]

Loved this one, Tony, and was completely taken in by the twist! Thank you!

[@amymurdock5905]

Excellent story, Tony! Thank you for sharing it. The ending totally tripped me up.

[@MrsJanLong]

I used to lov the Armada ghost and horror books! Thanks for this one, such a great story. And well read of course!

[@JasonJason210]

Chetwynd-Hayes...been a while since I read one of his.

[@stellacollins3114]

Oh and I love to hear you talk about the story and author, it is educational 😊

[@shadownet3d]

My first time hearing this author. A very good story, made better by such an excellent narration. I enjoy hearing your afterthoughts on the story and author, and hope you will continue to include these.

[@micheleshave323]

Thank you for another wonderful story and an equally wonderful commentary. I so enjoy your work and I was wondering if you were going to be doing only ghost stories and some detective stories because I haven’t seen anything new on your Classic Stories channel and I miss not being able to enjoy them as well. Thank you so much for all the stories and commentaries and I hope you never get a cold or a sore throat.

[@annmarieray3922]

Thank you Tony,I really enjoyed this story...I wasn't expecting such a twist...I thought maybe..she might have fallen in love with the ghost...at least I thought that was where it was headed...but yes loved it..........xxx

[@blackfyre365]

I loved this story- and thanks for turning me onto this author ❤

[@stardust949]

What a cool story---I thought it was brilliantly written. Loved it. I always enjoy your end of story rambles, Tony.

[@amgroves76]

Yay you did one by the master of macabre!!! Thank you ! 💚🇬🇧 Love curse of strahd! There are several cthulhu editions, I have one kicking about, but barovia is my ultimate favourite

[@stevenshipman650]

Quite a good story. I enjoyed it and most especially your talk afterwards.

[@tzaph67]

Sorry Tony, I forgot to thank you at the end of my comment - I really enjoyed the story. I also really enjoy the discussions at the end of the stories, including this one. It makes me think about my own ideas more deeply and gives me new ones. Take care and thanks loads.

[@ClassicGhost]

I think I do it for two reasons one is to understand what I think about the story by writing out and then speaking it out and then also hopefully sparking off other people’s pleasure in understanding the story

[@julierobinson3633]

Actually the Underground is an excellent place for a ghost story because although obviously not gothic age it IS actually very old - the oldest in the world. While at the same time being completely part of the modern world. It somehow contains both realities. I think that's why the idea of ghost stations etc fascinates people so much - because the Underground simultaneously contains all eras. I love the talks at the end. Please continue. I do listen to some other storytellers on KZbin but I find I'm frustrated at the end wanting to hear other opinions on what happened and not getting them.

[@annikee5925]

O Tony I could listen to you all day. Stay you.

[@ClassicGhost]

I struggle to be anyone else.

[@BJPDesigns]

I am really looking forward to your Victorian author videos! I like discovering authors I didn’t know about before and hearing more about the well known ones too.

[@AND-od5jt]

Thanks for the great - slightly gnostic - story!

[@susanmercurio1060]

That is actually what I believe causes a ghost: they don't leave because of some unfinished business. (Unlike "what makes them come back?") And I love ❣️ your discussion of the story at the end! They make the time with you much more entertaining.

[@ryanjohnson3615]

Wonderful!

[@ramonpiper]

Keep doing the commentary and dog updates!

[@ClassicGhost]

Will do!

[@jighoststar8943]

Such an interesting idea, a ghost of a living person. I haven't experienced that before. I wonder if I have left a ghost of myself anywhere? I like the story breakdowns, it helps me understand them more deeply, thank you.

[@kaustosis9383]

Ravenloft D&D campaign setting is pretty top notch imo...have fun and thanks Tony.

[@ClassicGhost]

I'm loving it.

[@karenrichards3770]

Brill,thankyou,and v good commentary.

[@DavidA.-bv8xy]

Educational!? Talk about a twist ending! Ooh, I shall have to report this! But a wonderful, subtle ghost story, Cheers😊

[@nomansgoddess]

And this comment may be late but a big YES on the Mythos idea for D&D!

[@amandine512]

I missed your uploads.

[@ClassicGhost]

oh no! Glad you're here now though

[@classicangel887]

Most people I knew growing up would know about The Hellfire Club,and been there at some stage, also I heard of a lot of scary stuff happening there. There was one incident that happened that was terrifying and the people involved never went there again as far as I know.

[@kaytris]

I enjoyed this.. nice twist on the traditional unfinished ghost business theme. (Although Harold's about face at the end was a bit jarring, and not really believable that such a passive person would abruptly whiplash-react like that - but maybe that's just me.

[@robertgraves8843]

I'm quite a fan of Chetwynd-Hayes. His stories have one foot in the real world and one somewhere else........

[@sybilmcpherson2240]

Loved it - and the twist! 😂

[@suecondon1685]

Great story, I was very surprised to find a Chetwynd Hayes story that's so grim and murderous. Love the depiction of the underground crowds as some kind of creature. I also loved your interpretation at the end. It made me dream that I murdered someone, so I listened to it again to make sure it was the story influencing me and not something I'd actually done!

[@ct92404]

It's a good story, but the attitudes of the characters (even the protagonist) seem totally out of place for the 1980's. It sounds more like something from the 1800's.

[@Annapurna818]

A favorite of mine

[@Hlaford29]

I'd like to comment on that warning in the underground. I believe it wasn't just "red herring", on the contrary, it showed that there were many such stories around, and that the best way of dealing with them was not to notice them - thus you could live your life. These "ghosts" are like scars, and they start aching when you touch them. And like scars these things have no moral resolution - just pain for all the involved.

[@ClassicGhost]

Good point. Very interesting.

[@amandine512]

Relatable.

[@zeromt3577]

Man!! If, somehow, you didn't get your fourth player for your campaign, please let me know. I doubt streaming all the way from the US would be super-stable, and I can think of lots of reasons why others (e.g. Patreon members or KZbin joiners) would be better choices, but I've been looking for a good game of Call of Cthulhu or even another good DnD game, and I'd love to join one run by one of my favorite narrators and authors, so please shout at me if you think a random weird fiction fan / rpg geek from the US would make a good player in the game you decide to run. Also, great reading and analysis as usual! These sorts of "fractured" ghosts are especially fascinating. If you think of any given person's complex behavior as the result of a "committee" of more simplistic internal archetypes crumpled into his skull -- a bundle of two-dimensional snapshots that, folded together, approximate a fully three-dimensional personality -- then it's not too hard to imagine one or two of these snapshots peeling off during some emotionally tempestuous episode and blowing away on its own, to be seen again only when stirred by the next gust. I love the idea of so many of them getting trapped in the tunnels and drawn flitting behind the subway trains. It's a fertile idea... you could imagine them potentially combining again, forming partial, new entities from all the trapped bits lost by all the other hearts that were broken in the underground.

[@ClassicGhost]

We're still doing Strahd in D&D but email me at [e-mail] and I'll get back to you if we do CoC

[@julierobinson3633]

If the father was 20 ish in WWII ('40-'45) with an infant daughter who is now 45 then that does date the whole thing to the 1980s, but I agree the whole ethos does feel earlier. 'From Beyond the Grave' is my favorite of the anthology films.

[@KarensOpinionsMayDiffer]

Didn’t see that coming.

[@ianwhite5477]

David McCullum was the Sapphire & Steel actor.

[@nomansgoddess]

I think the best way to look at the actions and feelings of other people going through our short existence of what we perceive as reality is to remind ourselves to think honestly to ourselves what would we do if we were in that other persons shoes. However as we all are imperfect being human we sometimes forget to. I would consider the underground to be 'liminal spaces '. The world between two worlds. Or some sort of pocket universe. Sorry just really got into what alot of people call 'The Backrooms ' this year 😊

[@WhiteRabbitAnne]

What an interesting story, took a turn I didn't expect which I love in a story. The story of your dogs reminds me of our cat. He gets peckish around 3am he has kibbles. But he really wants the wet food. I'm not sure if he's dreamed of it which is why he's so insistent. But he won't take no for an answer. I'm disabled it's my husband that does the feeding. But my husband sleeps like the dead. So our little guy will come to me and gently nibble on my hands to say he's hungry. Because he knows I'm a light sleeper and I can wake up "daddy". So every night around 3 I'm nudging my husband. "honey the cat wants feeding. Honey? Honey?" And the poor man stumbles to the kitchen. Then our little Mishtu comes in after eating and snuggles down with him purring his head off. Both are asleep in minutes. I look for one of your stories to listen to because I'll be up for at least an hour before falling back to sleep. Funny how rituals just sort of happen. No doubt years from now when our cat is in cat heaven I will still wake at three thinking he needs to be fed. No cat but it will still be time for a story.

[@ClassicGhost]

They are very clever. Cleverer than most people give them credit for

[@Addwrite]

It is quite difficult to find books by R Chetwyn Haynes.

[@chuckanddebraorlick4004]

Good stiry

[@susanmercurio1060]

I think the word you're looking for, Tony, for Harold is "prosy."

[@ClassicGhost]

I don't know what that means in this context. Prosy for me is a style of writing I suppose. What does it mean to you?

[@susanmercurio1060]

@@ClassicGhost "Prosy" is used in Regency novels, such as Jane Austen or Georgette Heyer, to describe a person who is boring and wordy.

[@angeladawn2343]

❤

[@sybilmcpherson2240]

Really! I dont think Harold loved her at all!

[@tzaph67]

I don’t think Harold loved her at all - all that stuff about the money for the taxi! Harold isn’t a wicked man but nor is he kind or loving. I didn’t think the dad was a monster but there was that remark about him driving her suitors away when she was young. He mistrusted young love - all his young love was left in the underground with his dead wife. I thought it was very sad thinking what the dad could have been if he’d held onto his capacity for love despite the tragedy of the murder. I thought Laura seemed quite self sufficient because she’d had to be. I feel that freed from Harold and her father it might have been possible for her to blossom in some ways - not necessarily romantically, but not totally ruling it out.

[@solved-in-the-dark]

The story follows Williams A Extreme prejudiced as he navigates through his daily life, battling intrusive Thoughts and struggles with Self harm. he Thrives to recreate his past desires of the Things he I once lovede, As he pursues a new interest In painting. Williams receives news about his missing brother, Axle, and sets out to find him, leading him to the house Where it all began. Filled with eerie and unsettling experiences. As The paintings call out to him, he Begins to Experience strange and supernatural Occurrences including a mysterious man in a tub and a bottomless pit filled with corpses. his journey is marked by a constant struggle with their inner demons, longing for artistic inspiration, ultimately leading to a chilling and ambiguous conclusion.

[@ct92404]

"struggles with self harm"...so melodramatic Millennial emo stuff 🙄 No thanks.

[@ClassicGhost]

Although that's not this story.

[@solved-in-the-dark]

@@ct92404 No this ain't emo stuff it's more homophobic It's about a guy who hates gays so much he starts thinking about them and he starts beating himself up because he wants to gays out of his mind If you have a deep seated hatred for someone this could happen to you The story is mainly about his homophobia and Artistic inspiration he thrives to become a painter like the notorious Serial killers the bakers But one thing he doesn't know is that There are paintings ain't natural paintings They're actually cursed But I understand if Your emo Prejudice makes you scared you just don't want to see what the homophobic sees And wonder if that possibility of a direct hatred can actually make you do self harm So I advise you to stop hating emos because you will just become one it only works with the emos though If you hate gays it's not Going to make you gay it's just gonna make you emo Because how mentally depressed you are about the gays and your intrusive thoughts And besides I wasn't talking to you in the first place I'm talking to people who actually write stories Or tell stories

[@solved-in-the-dark]

@@ct92404 no my story ain't emo the stories about a prejudice who is extremely intolerant about gay people he's a homophobe and it's a story about what hatred can do to a man who harbors these such negative feelings for example your hatred for emos you hate emos so much you cannot stop thinking about them you start beating your own head because you Hate emails and you want them out of your thoughts like you don't want to think about Emos But that's all you can think about is emos You're intense prejudice against a certain group of people will make you harbor such negative feelings where you keep talking about how they're all suicidal and make a bunch of stereotypes makes you blind With so much hate you start developing intrusive thoughts and these intrusive thoughts make you do self harm to yourself you start beating your own head and you want to carve out your freaking eyes because you don't want to see them anymore that is what my story is about it's not about the Self harm itself it's more about what hatred can do to a person now I understand you're not going to care about this because your hatred for emos makes you blind And it's potentially making you an emo But trust me this story will change your life it's a little boring to read but everything makes sense harboring such hatred will make you Develop intrusive thoughts and these intrusive thoughts will make you do emo stuff Hatred can affect your personal life and your social life your social life is what's mainly going to be breaking down because you cannot stop talking about emos you're going to be making everyone else miserable because you're miserable For example let's say your mom you hate emo so much you start talking to your mom about it and your mom doesn't want to hear it she tells you shut up And Tries to prove to you emos are not bad but she doesn't know what goes on in your mindset because what you see is different from what everyone else sees keep that in mind What you hate makes you see things different about the people you hate But the story is mainly about prejudice serial killers and the supernatural i'm trying to make it focus on all three elements at once But that is quite impossible because writer blocks keep coming on and off This story is mainly about hatred and how exploring wrong houses can be A great mistake I can send you the whole book if you want it starts off a little gothy at first then it gets boring with a little bit of humor then it picks up paste getting a little interesting after an hour into the book it would become intriguing

[@solved-in-the-dark]

@@ct92404 The story is not just about suicide mental health it's about harboring deep hatred and what it can do to you and the people around you arboring such hatred can Emotionally drain their energy and harboring such hatred can harm you where you see the people you hate inside your intrusive thoughts you start harboring such hatred where you want to be yourself up because you cannot stand the sight of your intrusive thoughts And the story is not just about intrusive thoughts and also about a serial killer two notorious serial killers to be precise But I gotta make this story for the Two killers which I am working on I gotta make two stories and then Put them together so what's going to happen is a main character is going to tell the Whole story of the characters and what better way to do that with one of his friends And you haven't seen emo Unless you check yourself in the mirror

[@solved-in-the-dark]

Hey man I would love to collaborate on a story with you I was wondering if you could help me with the story I've got a whole idea of coming along and I'm getting waiver's block every few seconds So I was wondering if you can collaborate on me with my story help me complete it so I don't have to struggle with this story anymore because I do want this story to be done So do you think it's possible or feasible I'll send you the Plot

[@ClassicGhost]

Ah, I read this second. Makes sense now. I don't really ghost-write. Maybe someone on Fiverr would do it for you though?

[@stevejeffery3112]

Awesome story, and I understand the nuance, but let's remember - that wasn't love. That was jealous murder. He's not a 'Good Guy' in any way. He was a dick and his punishment is to be seen for what he is by his daughter.

[@Tazirai]

As much as I love these old stories. The sexism sometimes take me out. I know it was a different time, but they don't get a pass for that. I'm a writer, and 100 years from now, if someone rereads an old story of mine, they can't accuse me of that, lol. Great delivery and story overall. Specially the end.

[@ct92404]

The strange thing is the story was actually written in 1985.

[@Tazirai]

@@ct92404 I just listened to the breakdown and found out.

[@ClassicGhost]

The thing is in 100 years time, there may be a new kind of -ism we haven't thought about yet and we will have unwittingly shown attitudes that in the future are deplored.

[@Tazirai]

@@ClassicGhost True enough.

[@ct92404]

Good story, but bizarrely outdated. It seems like something more from the Victorian era or even earlier 1800's. I can't imagine anyone talking that way and saying stuff like "spinster" in 1985! 😂

[@ClassicGhost]

It's interesting isn't it; it felt like a much older story. But writers write stories often taken from their younger self