The Walnut Tree House - A Tragic Tale of Love and Loss

[@arrebarre]

Finally a thumbnail with a house on it for me to click on.

[@ClassicGhost]

Exactly!

[@fetlock]

😂😂😂❤

[@cronchyskull]

I totally wasn't going to listen to this, but then I saw the house on the thumbnail and was like "well, that changes everything!" And, well, the rest is history.

[@lisap.1826]

❤😂😂😂🎉

[@PippaAT]

​@@cronchyskullThat is the house of my dreams!

[@WhiteRabbitAnne]

Ah Friday Fright Day Thanks Tony. Will never get over the juxtaposition of disturbing stories read with the most soothing voice ever. I think it heightens the heebie jeebies the way a calm part in a movie heightens the jump scare. It's perfect!

[@Dreamcatcher0007]

I was looking for what to listen to and here it is 🎉

[@mydearvalerie]

That was lovely! ❤ Thanks!

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you

[@GingerTomMom]

Wonderful retelling of a favorite classic. Thank you so much for making my day!

[@marciedewolff9357]

Many thanks Tony! So needed this audio therapy right now. 🙂

[@applthorn]

I love Charlotte Riddell and i think this one is new to me!

[@MsMak12356]

What a lovely story - tragic and sad, but at least the little one was freed and found peace. And a happy ending. It almost made me cry. Thank you for another wonderful hour in which I was able to lose myself and leave my own worries behind.

[@leonaheraty3760]

Yes, I'm so glad the little ghost was able to finally cross over to Heaven. 💖🙏

[@JetLagRecords]

Classic Ghost Stories Podcast - Tony Walker, Your videos are fantastic! I just had to subscribe!

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you thank you !

[@LucicPower]

Read the Meyrink one in members only, it's great 👍

[@DaleRibbons]

Every so often when listening to a story on this channel, I hear one that strikes a familiar chord. A feeling that I've read this story before, but I'll be darned if I can remember when or where. This is one of those stories.

[@ClassicGhost]

It’s been in a few anthologies

[@andrewbeale6072]

Do you listen to Bitesized Audio Classics? Simon recorded a version of it last year.

[@trstnmxc23]

Yay for Friday! I love when you issue a new episode. Thank you!

[@soundsilence2604]

I first read this one in a volume of the Valancourt Book of Victorian Ghost Stories (a collection I recommend to anyone wanting a ghostly Christmas read).

[@mwilson7842]

Yah Tony on a Friday!💚💙

[@marilynwashburn4480]

This looks so much like a house in my hometown...sooooo many incredible historic homes there! I'd dream of living in one and what it'd be like. 🥰 Thank you, Tony, for making Friday evenings more than TV and FB!😁😬

[@donaldmccleary9015]

What a wonderful story and narration! This is a true gem! Thanks, Ed, for sponsoring this! This is a truly wonderful and nice story, with its moments of sadness that warms the heart. Thanks!

[@amandalee215]

Perfect start to my weekend. Thank you, Tony

[@DarkestStarASMR]

Delightful story and the best narrator ❤

[@terrioestreich4007]

Excellent!!

[@MaggieatPlay]

Lovely story, well narrated. Thank you, Tony. Appreciate the ramble at the end.

[@lindadarveau1031]

More from this author in the future would be great.

[@maryeckel9682]

Wonderful reading of a sad, sweet tale.

[@edf777]

Thank you sir 😊❤

[@ClassicGhost]

Most welcome 😊

[@lyndabrennan4560]

This sounds thrilling, my bedtime in a couple of hours, I'm really looking forward to this story, thank you Tony 💙 💛

[@stardust949]

Well, call me a TROPE maven if you like, because I enjoyed this "lower level workman's" story. Why can't we have a Nice ghost story for a change? Every day seems like psycho-land for reals, so yeah---I'll take a Victorian Trope of righting family wrongs, thanks very much! And Thank You to the gentleman who purchased Tony's talents for reading this one.

[@ClassicGhost]

workmanlike means well-constructed

[@kathykerr1202]

Happy Friday the 13th, Tony!

[@amgroves76]

What a sweet story. Thank you both

[@robinmaclay2661]

Thanks, Tony!

[@kathykerr1202]

O what? Make my evening!!! Thank you!!!

[@deirdrewhelan9393]

Great story.

[@vaunniethayer1484]

A lovely story where the ghost does not fill you with fear but compassion. A happy ending was a bonus. Would like to see more of these, very uplifting.

[@ClassicGhost]

Try How Fear Left The Long Gallery by E F Benson (on the channel if you can search)

[@julierobinson3633]

A lovely story.

[@theoriginalsuzycat]

What a sweet tale!

[@AndreaDingbatt]

❤ Thank you so Much Again Tony, 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Narration of a 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Tale!! I've been missing you, as I've not had the Interweb for over a week!!😮 However,,,,😊❤ This means that I have quite a few stories to look forward to hearing from you!! Thank you Tony!! Namasté 🙏 🕊️ 💞 🌟 Andréa and Jasper. ...XxX...

[@thurayya8905]

Thank you, Tony, and Ed W.! I read this story about five ago and it stayed with me.

[@meese9140]

It’s an interesting twist for the house to be haunted by love!

[@missmouse20]

It is impossible to click on play to listen without noticing the comments that scroll. Was it really necessary to give the plot away? There are many who haven't listened yet.

[@martiwilliams4592]

Love this,, also this time around, your vivid narration and thought- provoking commentary. As a self-proclaimed middle-brow :0) , you are declared again truly masterful. Thanks Ed W. thanks, Tony. Much needed and appreciated.

[@nancynickerson4341]

What? Our Goodman Tony "spent many years being unpopular" ? Never!

[@electrictofumuffins6384]

That explains it. The everyday tastes of the average human baffles me.

[@AND-od5jt]

Some people dont like others having ideal... prolly a Kind of jealousy, because they (had to) abandoned theirs

[@THEPAGEBURNER1979]

Hell yea nothing like a good ghost story read by master Sir Tony. Cheers from across the polluted pond 😮😂😂

[@lesleykaygosson315]

Great Story ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perfect Narration ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐❤️

[@Notyou912]

Well done, as per usual. Thank you.

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you too for listening

[@jenniferlevine5406]

I really like this one. It is a twist on the usual and I like that particularly. Your commentary is, as always, most enjoyable!

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you kindly!

[@Story-Voracious66]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Tony and Ed. I love this kind of ghost syory. Where kindness prevails, like "How Fear Departed the Long Gallery; another of my faves. Give the screaming skull a teddy bear. Sometimes it may take a few days to get to your stories Tony, but I never miss one, and I let all the ads run if I have to re-start listrning. Love your work. 👻👻👻

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you 🙏

[@JD-cw4qg]

I absolutely adore this story and you have done it 100 percent justice, brilliantly read. Thank you Tony

[@PortmanRd]

Ghost in the shell. Awesome story.

[@jerryoconnor-ps8bb]

Thank you so very much for this Tony. I absolutely got absorbed in this. You are an international treasure. I wouldn't worry about Northern Ireland or North of Ireland. We all get this wrong from time to time. I'm very happy that there's peace there now. 👍

[@09purpledyer]

So wonderful!!! I love it so much. Thank You!!

[@ClassicGhost]

I'm glad you like it

[@susanmercurio1060]

I love your working-class accent!

[@Josephinejefferies]

Enjoyed this

[@JT_Soul]

Very good reading, as always. I found this one especially affecting because there were a number of parallels with my own family history. Like the author, I come from an Antrim family of Scottish origin. In the 1840s, my distant ancestor was sent to Australia as a young boy after his mother died in the Famine. There, the family prospered. His grandson, my great-grandfather, was wounded at Gallipoli while fighting in the Royal Australian Artillery and sent to England to recuperate. While there, he met members of a branch of the family that had remained in Britain, and he ended up marrying his cousin (my great-grandmother). So, both the elements of the little boy afflicted with poverty and hunger, and of the Australian returning to Britain and reuniting the two sides of the family by marrying his English cousin really resonated with me. A reminder that, though these Victorian ghost stories are often dismissed as overly sentimental, such things really did happen (albeit without supernatural intervention... presumably!).

[@pinkgirl281982]

Obsessed. A must subscribe ❤

[@ClassicGhost]

Great !!

[@libertycowboy2495]

Yay! A house!

[@leonaheraty3760]

Thank you Tony! Charlotte Riddell is an awesome writer! It looks like there is a small child or ghost behind the left chimney. 🤔😊 Happy Fall everyone! 🍁🎃👻😊

[@Story-Voracious66]

Happy Spring down my way 😊🌸🌸🌸🌸 Take care of that little ghost.

[@jonehaney8939]

Thank you, Ed W.! This is such a wonderful story! Sponsoring a story reading is such a cool idea. Tony, can you explain how it works for those of us who are interested?

[@ClassicGhost]

Got to my ko-fi page ko-fi.com/E1E21AC9R there’s a commission link there. it has to be out of copyright though

[@jonehaney8939]

I'll have to get someone with an unchemoed and unradiated brain to help me figure that out! Also, I think you'd have a field day narrating Charlotte Riddell's wonderful book The Uninhabited House.​ Have you heard of it?@@ClassicGhost

[@Josephinejefferies]

Enjoyed your commentary

[@stephaniestevenson6335]

Well done. Thank you!

[@wayn42]

For some strange reason the thumbnails with haunted looking houses get more clicks it's a KZbin FACT 😋

[@firsttinatantrum]

I could listen to your voice for hours. Oh, oops! I do! 😂

[@ClassicGhost]

It's weird to think that.

[@shivikewl6003]

A lovely story beautifully narrated.

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you very very much

[@PippaAT]

Re Ri-Dell, or Riddle, my late mother was in the Air Force, and had a superior called Sidebottom. She called him that, upon where he said, "Corporal! My name is Siddy-botTOM!"

[@Story-Voracious66]

😂. A bit like Bucket, or Earwig produced Ar-weej.

[@kathleenwagner7444]

If you'll forgive me, it's "In the distance, Mr. Stainton descried a very grimy Bill," meaning that he caught sight of him through the rainy evening gloom. It's one of those eighteenth and nineteenth century words that have fallen entirely into disuse, like complaisance, unexceptionable, and disinterested. I'm always saying that I wasn't educated for this century. The upside of it is that I know all sorts of interesting and arcane old expressions; the downside is that I have to consult one of my grown children to learn to do even the simplest new task on the computer.

[@DreamingCatStudio]

I like this ghost story! Slightly spooky and sweet. I get what you were talking about low-brow… when I traveled a lot I’d pick up in the airport what I call “trashbacks”; paperback books that were entertaining but ultimately forgettable. No eternal human themes. I wonder if you’d consider reading Nabokov’s Wingstroke? It’s not a typical ghost story but I find it terrifying. Thank you for your thoughtful commentary!

[@ClassicGhost]

Sounds interesting. i don’t know it but i like him

[@DreamingCatStudio]

@@ClassicGhost I recommend reading it before reading a detailed synopsis so you experience the shock midway… it might be too depressing for your audience. I find I have remembered it over the years and reread it several times.

[@ellenmendoza7246]

That was fantastic Thank you

[@ClassicGhost]

Very welcome

[@scathatch]

a well crafted tale

[@MarinaHolistica]

Thanks

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you 🙏

[@craigoliver8712]

"Need a Jimmy Riddle,I'm busting"

[@ClassicGhost]

That’s it

[@scapegoat685]

I really enjoy Tony's stories. I can't listen to many audio books because of the narrator. Tony's voice is easy to listen to, others just grate on me. I can relate to his voice because it's how I would read the story. I wouldn't read a book to myself in an exaggerated way, in a slow weird voice, or accent... therefore I don't want to listen to it in that way, it's difficult to explain. He subtly differentiates between characters. Then you have the extreme, AI narrating in a mechanical way with no emotion. I have always disliked reading so these stories have me hooked.

[@AND-od5jt]

You forgot Weis/Hickman imo... worldbuilding combined with insights into the human condition

[@ClassicGhost]

Noted

[@AND-od5jt]

Did brains/memories function in another way back then? Forgetting passed family members, least siblings sounds so ridiculous...

[@ClassicGhost]

big families

[@jackyflowers3493]

🪦 🍿 🍷 👻🌌🌝🎶 🐈‍⬛

[@electrictofumuffins6384]

Riddell's stories would make great screen adaptations, especially this one & Nut Bush Farm.

[@BertieShaul-mn4qc]

What a Great Story for this beautiful day in Happy Valley! Thank you, Tony! 🎉❤😊

[@MsMak12356]

And I love your commentaries at the end. I know you catch a lot of flack from people in the comments for doing them, but I find them fascinating.

[@ClassicGhost]

I do , but these days I just delete the moaners

[@rachael7060]

What a beautiful story, in spite of the lad dying of a broken heart.

[@ritamartin4782]

So the neighbors knew how horribly the children were being treated, and because the man was rich and owned this property, the children too, could be disposed of like land, just neglect it. Afterall ,feelings are ONLY felt by status not blood. Sad story

[@shadownet3d]

Enjoyable story. Great reading as always.

[@ClassicGhost]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ropeburnsrussell]

I'll listen but i wish the thumbnail was a dark wood.

[@ClassicGhost]

hmmm

[@deecooper1567]

How delightful. Great styAnd narration ‼️

[@jenniferhawkins3142]

What a poignant story! And is a British "scrap man" what the USA would call a garbage or trash man?

[@Kate0603]

That would be a bin man. A scrap man usually gathers old iron, other metal, and appliances such as Agas, washing machines, etc. When I grew up in Dorset in the 1980s, we had one who would drive up, ring a big bell and shout “Old Iron. Any old iron!”. Sometimes they use a bugle call to attract attention, but ours had a big bell.

[@jenniferhawkins3142]

@@Kate0603 that's what I envisioned - scrap metal but wondered how much scrap metal is lying around Tony's house to be collected so often 😋

[@ClassicGhost]

it’s a yard at the back where he compresses it