The Walnut Tree House by Charlotte Riddell

The Walnut-Tree House by Charlotte Riddell
Thanks to Ed W. for sponsoring this classic Victorian tale.
In Victorian London, a once-grand mansion holds secrets that span generations. When Edgar Stainton inherits the property, he uncovers more than just dust and decay. Charlotte Riddell's "The Walnut-Tree House" weaves a tale of a child's ghost, a missing will, and long-buried family truths. Through her nuanced storytelling, Riddell examines the injustices of 19th-century society, using the supernatural to illuminate very real human struggles. This is a story where the past refuses to stay silent, and where redemption comes from unexpected places.
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[@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!

[@rachael7060]

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

[@applthorn]

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

[@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!

[@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!

[@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 👍

[@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. 💖🙏

[@Dreamcatcher0007]

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

[@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. 🙂

[@maryeckel9682]

Wonderful reading of a sad, sweet tale.

[@mwilson7842]

Yah Tony on a Friday!💚💙

[@BertieShaul-mn4qc]

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

[@lindadarveau1031]

More from this author in the future would be great.

[@amandalee215]

Perfect start to my weekend. Thank you, Tony

[@trstnmxc23]

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

[@edf777]

Thank you sir 😊❤

[@ClassicGhost]

Most welcome 😊

[@electrictofumuffins6384]

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

[@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!

[@MaggieatPlay]

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

[@amgroves76]

What a sweet story. Thank you both

[@lyndabrennan4560]

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

[@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...

[@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.

[@lesleykaygosson315]

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

[@DarkestStarASMR]

Delightful story and the best narrator ❤

[@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!😁😬

[@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.

[@mydearvalerie]

That was lovely! ❤ Thanks!

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you

[@terrioestreich4007]

Excellent!!

[@nancynickerson4341]

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

[@electrictofumuffins6384]

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

[@thurayya8905]

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

[@robinmaclay2661]

Thanks, Tony!

[@kathykerr1202]

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

[@theoriginalsuzycat]

What a sweet tale!

[@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).

[@Notyou912]

Well done, as per usual. Thank you.

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you too for listening

[@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.

[@THEPAGEBURNER1979]

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

[@julierobinson3633]

A lovely story.

[@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

[@PortmanRd]

Ghost in the shell. Awesome story.

[@deirdrewhelan9393]

Great story.

[@JD-cw4qg]

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

[@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 🙏

[@09purpledyer]

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

[@ClassicGhost]

I'm glad you like it

[@Josephinejefferies]

Enjoyed this

[@Josephinejefferies]

Enjoyed your commentary

[@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

[@kathykerr1202]

Happy Friday the 13th, Tony!

[@pinkgirl281982]

Obsessed. A must subscribe ❤

[@ClassicGhost]

Great !!

[@libertycowboy2495]

Yay! A house!

[@stephaniestevenson6335]

Well done. Thank you!

[@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.

[@susanmercurio1060]

I love your working-class accent!

[@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

[@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.

[@firsttinatantrum]

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

[@ClassicGhost]

It's weird to think that.

[@scathatch]

a well crafted tale

[@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.

[@wayn42]

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

[@craigoliver8712]

"Need a Jimmy Riddle,I'm busting"

[@ClassicGhost]

That’s it

[@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

[@Gnif572]

Why should they marry? As soon as she gets some nice money, let it be seized by a man. Merry Christmas to her, indeed. At least I got a laugh at the end :P

[@Story-Voracious66]

I do see your point there. I subscribe more to the Angela Carter type ending.

[@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.

[@ropeburnsrussell]

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

[@ClassicGhost]

hmmm

[@jackyflowers3493]

🪦 🍿 🍷 👻🌌🌝🎶 🐈‍⬛

[@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