This is a story by Elinor Mordaunt from 1922 - but I think it's got quite an edgy modern feel! See what you think... As always, if you like what I do on this channel, throw me a LIKE and a COMMENT. SUBSCRIBE and never miss a story. You can also JOIN the channel - thanks to everyone who has already!
This was so unique and unusual. I also agree it has a feel of being far ahead of it's time. I didn't look to see what year it was written until I finished it, then I was so surprised to see 1922. I love finding gems like this. If it weren't for you and a couple other channels I don't think I would ever discover these wonderful yarns. 💀❤✌🏼💯
@@michellebastiani6470 I've just finished recording a story by May Sinclair. Again, rather bold about, ahem, bedroom matters for the time it was written. I love hunting around for stories for this channel. It's like hunting for truffles 🐷
@@EnCryptedHorror Yeah I'm sure it's enjoyable research. I absolutely love the analogy. I call my youngest who just turned 2 truffle pig. She made the cutest little snort sound when she was a newborn and it became her nickname lol. Looking forward to that next story now as well 💀✌🏼👻
Yay! I'm now a "Super Creep"! I love these longer tales! I know they take a lot more to produce, so THANK YOU J.L.! Just a few minutes in, and it already reminds me of the movie "Midnight Lace", starring Rex Harrison & Doris Day- "Mrs. Preston!"
I’ve listened to The Nature of Evidence and now Luz, both brilliantly narrated. I was struck how both stories have a very febrile eroticism running through them. Luz was an exceptionally terrifying and claustrophobic listen. Thank you.
Thank you Gwen 🙏. Yes, I think about this time there was a marked contrast between the writing of men (M.R. James wrote in an essay that sex had no place in supernatural fiction) and women (see also the Mary Butts story I read a few weeks ago). As I read around for the show I too am struck by the trends and patterns as the genre evolved over time.
Thank you for your recommendation of the Mary Butts story. I’ve never come across her before. A very strange tale. It’s full of smells and textures - weirdly intriguing. It just sort of starts without any preambles or explanations of context or characters. Can’t help wondering what readers at the time thought of the story, especially how it was a woman’s undergarment that was suffocating the man. Thank you for bringing these stories to life with your wonderful narration, I came to your vlog via a recommendation from Tony Walker. I’ve also listened to a couple of your own stories which were brilliantly written and narrated.
You're so welcome, Gwen. Absolutely agree with you about the Mary Butts story. I had read about it and sought it out and when I read it I was utterly captivated. It seemed to break a lot of rules. It's so much fun discovering/rediscovering these stories along with everyone.
I don't think anyone else could do this spine-tingling story justice. I am on my 3rd time listening to it and it is every bit as creepy as the first time.
This story totally made my skin crawl. Yeaaaaach! No wonder it sounds so modern - it preys on every woman's fears and the author succeeded on ratcheting things up to a truly unbearable degree. We have, of course, had several decades (at least in England)of being without the dreadful pea-souper fog/smogs of my youth but the memory of one in particular has never left me - I was no more than 12 or 13 and one came down so severely that I was left stranded in Nottingham city centre in the dark of a winter's afternoon. All the buses were cancelled and I had a four-mile walk to get home. You quite literally couldn't see your hand in front of your face. As I walked, there was barely a vehicle of any kind on the roads and the silence was eerie, the blanket of fog cloyingly claustrophobic. Makes me shudder just to think about, even in my old age... Your reading was mesmerising and the music/sound effects electrifying - between you and the author, an outstandingly scary experience! It would make a terrific one-off for television, with the right director. Thank you very much!
Really wigged out tale. Very uniquely twisted. .. Polly want an eyeball? Great narration as usual. Jasper has such good discrimination in his selection of tales to tell....that is so rare. Encore!
The utterances of the mysterious 3rd "person" that you produced were the stuff of nightmares. The sustained level of relentless suspense and almost surreal horror of the third "act" was almost unbearable. Very contemporary in it's intensity. Thanks for giving me an almost cinematic experience of this superb short story!
Hi Denny 👋 glad you enjoyed it. Voicing the 3rd person was a bit of a challenge because I wasn't sure how far to push it without being obvious. In the end I thought...oh well...it's still freakish anyway!
@@EnCryptedHorror Thanks so much for being so awesome! This community, well the classic horror narration channel's have the best communities on youtube. It means alot knowing that you read our comments. 💯✌🏼❤💀
@@michellebastiani6470 That's so true. It's weird that people who are attracted to the dark and macabre are simultaneously, almost without exception, pleasant and able to communicate nicely online. I love it
Yes! Im looking forward to this. Got some nice new headphones yesterday and tonight ill be listening this in bed. Have you ever considered reading the Pan horror books ?
Hi 1970sthrowback, I have read the Pan books and some stories from them have made their way on to the channel (The Inn and His Beautiful Hands come to mind). Unfortunately, I do try and stick to stories that are in the public domain (or which seem to have found their way on to the Internet for a few years without being taken down for copyright infringement) and a lot of the Pan stuff, though old, is still technically copyrighted in the UK.
@@EnCryptedHorror thanks for your reply, yes ive read those two. Thats a shame about copyright. I look forward to more of your readings, you've become my favourite.
This is a story by Elinor Mordaunt from 1922 - but I think it's got quite an edgy modern feel! See what you think...
As always, if you like what I do on this channel, throw me a LIKE and a COMMENT. SUBSCRIBE and never miss a story. You can also JOIN the channel - thanks to everyone who has already!
This was so unique and unusual. I also agree it has a feel of being far ahead of it's time. I didn't look to see what year it was written until I finished it, then I was so surprised to see 1922. I love finding gems like this. If it weren't for you and a couple other channels I don't think I would ever discover these wonderful yarns.
💀❤✌🏼💯
@@michellebastiani6470 I've just finished recording a story by May Sinclair. Again, rather bold about, ahem, bedroom matters for the time it was written. I love hunting around for stories for this channel. It's like hunting for truffles 🐷
@@EnCryptedHorror Yeah I'm sure it's enjoyable research. I absolutely love the analogy. I call my youngest who just turned 2 truffle pig. She made the cutest little snort sound when she was a newborn and it became her nickname lol.
Looking forward to that next story now as well 💀✌🏼👻
Yay! I'm now a "Super Creep"! I love these longer tales! I know they take a lot more to produce, so THANK YOU J.L.! Just a few minutes in, and it already reminds me of the movie "Midnight Lace", starring Rex Harrison & Doris Day- "Mrs. Preston!"
The voice you did for the doctor is now how I hear you all the time. I don't think I can listen to it. I will go mad I tell you. Mad.
I’ve listened to The Nature of Evidence and now Luz, both brilliantly narrated. I was struck how both stories have a very febrile eroticism running through them. Luz was an exceptionally terrifying and claustrophobic listen. Thank you.
Thank you Gwen 🙏. Yes, I think about this time there was a marked contrast between the writing of men (M.R. James wrote in an essay that sex had no place in supernatural fiction) and women (see also the Mary Butts story I read a few weeks ago). As I read around for the show I too am struck by the trends and patterns as the genre evolved over time.
Thank you for your recommendation of the Mary Butts story. I’ve never come across her before. A very strange tale. It’s full of smells and textures - weirdly intriguing. It just sort of starts without any preambles or explanations of context or characters. Can’t help wondering what readers at the time thought of the story, especially how it was a woman’s undergarment that was suffocating the man.
Thank you for bringing these stories to life with your wonderful narration, I came to your vlog via a recommendation from Tony Walker. I’ve also listened to a couple of your own stories which were brilliantly written and narrated.
You're so welcome, Gwen. Absolutely agree with you about the Mary Butts story. I had read about it and sought it out and when I read it I was utterly captivated. It seemed to break a lot of rules. It's so much fun discovering/rediscovering these stories along with everyone.
I don't think anyone else could do this spine-tingling story justice. I am on my 3rd time listening to it and it is every bit as creepy as the first time.
This story totally made my skin crawl. Yeaaaaach! No wonder it sounds so modern - it preys on every woman's fears and the author succeeded on ratcheting things up to a truly unbearable degree. We have, of course, had several decades (at least in England)of being without the dreadful pea-souper fog/smogs of my youth but the memory of one in particular has never left me - I was no more than 12 or 13 and one came down so severely that I was left stranded in Nottingham city centre in the dark of a winter's afternoon. All the buses were cancelled and I had a four-mile walk to get home. You quite literally couldn't see your hand in front of your face. As I walked, there was barely a vehicle of any kind on the roads and the silence was eerie, the blanket of fog cloyingly claustrophobic. Makes me shudder just to think about, even in my old age...
Your reading was mesmerising and the music/sound effects electrifying - between you and the author, an outstandingly scary experience! It would make a terrific one-off for television, with the right director. Thank you very much!
Thanks
You're welcome! And thanks for the Super Thanks 👍
Great story and narration!
Thanks!
Another great find by Jasper. It is a sunny day here today but I believe this story will keep me awake tonight. Creepy, creepy.
Thanks Jared!
Really wigged out tale. Very uniquely twisted. .. Polly want an eyeball? Great narration as usual. Jasper has such good discrimination in his selection of tales to tell....that is so rare. Encore!
Thanks Chris!
Dear Gawd glad I listened to this in daylight hours...YIkes!!! Wonderful voices as usual ...scary ...Tap Tap Tap
Thanks Miji!
Thank you and thanks to the parrot.
Great scary tale! Fantastic narration! This one was very creepy!
You are right. It has a very modern feel (as others have said before).
Thanks!
The utterances of the mysterious 3rd "person" that you produced were the stuff of nightmares. The sustained level of relentless suspense and almost surreal horror of the third "act" was almost unbearable. Very contemporary in it's intensity. Thanks for giving me an almost cinematic experience of this superb short story!
Hi Denny 👋 glad you enjoyed it. Voicing the 3rd person was a bit of a challenge because I wasn't sure how far to push it without being obvious. In the end I thought...oh well...it's still freakish anyway!
Excellent! As always, enjoy your narrative interpretation. Just such flawless reading.
Thanks Rosie!
You are right, this doesn't feel like a story from 1922, it feels very modern...very weird tale.
Wonderful story, expertly read! It does have a modern feel.
Thanks Nancy!
Very interesting one! Thanks for your awesome narration per usual ❤✌🏼
You're welcome! Thank you, Michelle 😊
@@EnCryptedHorror Thanks so much for being so awesome! This community, well the classic horror narration channel's have the best communities on youtube. It means alot knowing that you read our comments.
💯✌🏼❤💀
@@michellebastiani6470 That's so true. It's weird that people who are attracted to the dark and macabre are simultaneously, almost without exception, pleasant and able to communicate nicely online. I love it
Yes! Im looking forward to this. Got some nice new headphones yesterday and tonight ill be listening this in bed.
Have you ever considered reading the Pan horror books ?
Hi 1970sthrowback, I have read the Pan books and some stories from them have made their way on to the channel (The Inn and His Beautiful Hands come to mind). Unfortunately, I do try and stick to stories that are in the public domain (or which seem to have found their way on to the Internet for a few years without being taken down for copyright infringement) and a lot of the Pan stuff, though old, is still technically copyrighted in the UK.
@@EnCryptedHorror thanks for your reply, yes ive read those two. Thats a shame about copyright. I look forward to more of your readings, you've become my favourite.
Superb!!!!
Thanks Kevin. 👍
Goodness that was a dark one!
.. No pun intended! 😂
Haha! 😁
It's not easy, to put the sh*ts up me...but this story has done it! How absolutely terrifying!
It was, wasn't it? Thanks for listening, Jynxxxycat 👍
Could you read Clarke Ashton Smith?
I expect I will at some point. Any favourites?
@@EnCryptedHorror Your preference
Good Morning (in Washington State, that is), and Remember, remember! to you tonight 😉
Thanks Lux! On my way to the fireworks shortly 🎆🎇
Saved by the bird.
Hope the Parrot got looked after.
Apparently it hooked up with the parrot from "How Love Came To Professor Guildea" and they lived happily ever after.
The word for the day is 'Nefarious' 'Nefarious'
Or ‘frowzy’…