"Something happens in this house, and no living soul knows what it is, for they who have seen it have never yet survived to tell the tale." Legend says that no-one survives the night in the circular room at the Castle Inn, where several unexplained deaths have been popularly attributed to "fright". John Bell, Victorian adventurer and "professional exposer of ghosts", is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. The story begins at 00:01:20. **Warning** Some comments below may reference the plot and suggest spoilers.... read with caution. Note for returning listeners: This is a new recording of one of my earliest stories for the channel, a re-upload to mark the completion of the series in October 2023. It will also be available to listen shortly as a complete video with re-mastered audio of all six stories. Narrated/performed by Simon Stanhope, aka Bitesized Audio. If you enjoy this content and would like to help me keep creating, there are a few ways you can support me (and get access to exclusive content): * Occasional/one-off support via Buy Me a Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/bitesizedaudio * Monthly support on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bitesizedaudio * Visit my Bandcamp page to hear more of my performances of classic stories, and you can purchase and download high quality audio files to listen offline: bitesizedaudio.bandcamp.com/ * Become a Bitesized Audio Classics member on UA-cam, from $1 / £1 / €1 per month: ua-cam.com/users/BitesizedAudioClassicsjoin
thank you so much. I am 75 and live alone. I really enjoy your stories, I do not have a tv so they are my entertainment. I do not enjoy new literature with its explicit description and foul language.
L.T. Meade does it again! Such creativity and imagination. I always love the way she paces her stories. Thank you so much for bringing them so vividly to life for us, Simon!
I do enjoy these period tales, such is the imagination of the writers, they really grasp you into the story as a participant, on the verges of the events portrayed, Thanks Simon😊
Thank you Bitesized Audio for this thrilling reading of this meticulously plotted story by L.T Meade. During an episode of his 1996 BBC series "Nightmare The Birth of Horror: The Hound of the Baskervilles," which is posted on You Tube, Prof. Christopher Frayling claimed - starting at 12 minutes and 20 seconds into that You Tube "Nightmare The Birth of Horror: The Hound of the Baskervilles " video - that Arthur Conan Doyle and his associate, Fletcher Robinson, deliberately "borrowed" the entire central plot of their story from a story by L.T. Meade, published in The Strand Magazine for Dec. 1900, entitled "Followed," in which a young woman is lured out to Stonehenge, as she followed a giant black Tasmanian snake. The snake is shot by a woman following the heroine. Arthur Conan Doyle, Prof. Frayling implies, merely substituted a giant black dog for the giant black snake when he wrote "The Hound of The Baskervilles." (But perhaps Simon Stanhope already knows all this - nevertheless, thank you again Bitesized Audio, for this reading!)
An interesting connection, thank you for sharing. Funnily enough, I'm currently working on another Meade/Eustace collaboration and hope to have that ready to listen in the next few days...
Oh my! This was fabulous to listen to Mr. Stanhope. I love LB! Just wondering though, do you know if Mrs. Pirkis’s stories are in the public domain? I was thinking of annotating this story and publishing it - sort of a side by side thing, with the original on one side and a humorous commentary on the other; along with explaining how ‘electricity’ was kept in jars.
I have just heard your latest Meade & Eustace story of poor young Cressley set up for a deadly scam by an abhorent Land Agent managing his ancestral seat whilst Cressley was fortune hunting in Australia And! Here we have another story Mentioning The Land Down Under. Quite an Antipodean flavour for October. Its curious to ponder what Meade & Eustace decided to season their recent stories with Aussie connotations?? Had they travelled to Australia Around about the time they wrote these story collections? Or were they deliberating a jaunt over to the opposite side of the world?? I gather it was rather fashionable to sail Down Under At the turn of the last century Makes a change from the " gap" year equivalent of attending a couple of seasons in India for respectable " Gels" & young British Army officers, scouting out, a well positioned young filly for a wife! It must have been a riot! I had an Aunt who was sent out to India with her school pals when they were deemed ready for " marriage " She used to regale me of what she & her friends got up to & quite honestly, i thought my 1970s generation were the wild set! Not a chance! These gels were so very very naughty & totally Untameable! My Aunt did bag herself a rather dishy officer with high expectations, in my uncle Neville I always loved those past times Of the 1900s, especially the clothes & outrageous activities Although i did enjoy my 1970s & 80s Thank You, Simon. 'Triffic narration, top notch. Your perfection diction, emphasis & emotion, paint such vivid images for us to enjoy. Peace 🇬🇧👧
@itallia666 Thanks so much for your kind comments, delighted know you enjoyed this series. Interesting question re Australia - L. T. Meade was so prolific in the 1890s, producing new stories pretty much monthly, I'm not sure she'd have had time to visit Down Under! But on the other hand so little is known about the life of Robert Eustace... who knows!? On this very theme, though, I do have something slightly unusual lined up which may be of special interest for Australian listeners - hopefully early-ish new year, so do stay tuned!
I do add fully punctuated subtitles to all my uploads, they can be easily turned on or off in the settings, using the little icon underneath the screen (exact location varies depending on your device)
The people who police this need to educate themselves. There are several meanings for words which today have been lost. For example. In my childhood gay meant happy. Cheerful. And small pieces of wood for burning were called Fxxgxxts. As was a sort of meatball. The you tube police wont let me use this perfectly respectsble word found in all my 1950s children's books.
"Something happens in this house, and no living soul knows what it is, for they who have seen it have never yet survived to tell the tale." Legend says that no-one survives the night in the circular room at the Castle Inn, where several unexplained deaths have been popularly attributed to "fright". John Bell, Victorian adventurer and "professional exposer of ghosts", is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. The story begins at 00:01:20. **Warning** Some comments below may reference the plot and suggest spoilers.... read with caution.
Note for returning listeners: This is a new recording of one of my earliest stories for the channel, a re-upload to mark the completion of the series in October 2023. It will also be available to listen shortly as a complete video with re-mastered audio of all six stories.
Narrated/performed by Simon Stanhope, aka Bitesized Audio. If you enjoy this content and would like to help me keep creating, there are a few ways you can support me (and get access to exclusive content):
* Occasional/one-off support via Buy Me a Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/bitesizedaudio
* Monthly support on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bitesizedaudio
* Visit my Bandcamp page to hear more of my performances of classic stories, and you can purchase and download high quality audio files to listen offline: bitesizedaudio.bandcamp.com/
* Become a Bitesized Audio Classics member on UA-cam, from $1 / £1 / €1 per month:
ua-cam.com/users/BitesizedAudioClassicsjoin
thank you so much. I am 75 and live alone. I really enjoy your stories, I do not have a tv so they are my entertainment. I do not enjoy new literature with its explicit description and foul language.
I agree! I love these stories and they are so well narrated!
How wonderful that Bell uses a Kodak!
L.T. Meade does it again! Such creativity and imagination. I always love the way she paces her stories. Thank you so much for bringing them so vividly to life for us, Simon!
Oh goody! Love it when you post Simon!
That's lovely to know, thanks Jessi!
I do enjoy these period tales, such is the imagination of the writers, they really grasp you into the story as a participant, on the verges of the events portrayed, Thanks Simon😊
One of my all-time favorites. I would love to see a video adaptation one day. Thanks for this!
It would make a great Jonathan Creek-style TV mystery, I agree
Great story and great narration. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for listening
Thank you for recording this story so well! It’s a real favorite of mine.
Glad to know that. One of mine too!
What a great wee story read beautifully. Thank you so much.x
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks Caroline
Thank you!
"The room was spinning, eh sir? And hexactly how much 'ad you 'ad to drink?"
Only a tincture of Kendal black drop, on account of my virtigo .
LOL 😂😂😂😂😅
Wonderful!
Thank you
You're welcome!
Thank you so much ❤❤❤
Thank you, Simon!
You're very welcome, thanks Charlotte
Great story, thanks.
Marvelous Story, Bitesized Autio!! 😊
Thank you Linda! 🙂
Oh you spoil us today sir
Thank you Bitesized Audio for this thrilling reading of this meticulously plotted story by L.T Meade. During an episode of his 1996 BBC series "Nightmare The Birth of Horror: The Hound of the Baskervilles," which is posted on You Tube, Prof. Christopher Frayling claimed - starting at 12 minutes and 20 seconds into that You Tube "Nightmare The Birth of Horror: The Hound of the Baskervilles " video - that Arthur Conan Doyle and his associate, Fletcher Robinson, deliberately "borrowed" the entire central plot of their story from a story by L.T. Meade, published in The Strand Magazine for Dec. 1900, entitled "Followed," in which a young woman is lured out to Stonehenge,
as she followed a giant black Tasmanian snake. The snake is shot by a woman following the heroine. Arthur Conan Doyle, Prof. Frayling implies, merely substituted a giant black dog for the giant black snake when he wrote "The Hound of The Baskervilles." (But perhaps Simon Stanhope already knows all this - nevertheless, thank you again Bitesized Audio, for this reading!)
An interesting connection, thank you for sharing. Funnily enough, I'm currently working on another Meade/Eustace collaboration and hope to have that ready to listen in the next few days...
Thanks so much 😊
Excellent.
Oh my! This was fabulous to listen to Mr. Stanhope. I love LB! Just wondering though, do you know if Mrs. Pirkis’s stories are in the public domain? I was thinking of annotating this story and publishing it - sort of a side by side thing, with the original on one side and a humorous commentary on the other; along with explaining how ‘electricity’ was kept in jars.
I have just heard your latest Meade & Eustace story of poor young Cressley set up for a deadly scam by an abhorent Land Agent managing his ancestral seat whilst Cressley was fortune hunting in Australia
And! Here we have another story
Mentioning The Land Down Under.
Quite an Antipodean flavour for October.
Its curious to ponder what Meade & Eustace decided to season their recent stories with
Aussie connotations??
Had they travelled to Australia
Around about the time they wrote these story collections?
Or were they deliberating a jaunt over to the opposite side of the world??
I gather it was rather fashionable to sail Down Under
At the turn of the last century
Makes a change from the
" gap" year equivalent of attending a couple of seasons in India for respectable " Gels" & young British Army officers, scouting out, a well positioned young filly for a wife!
It must have been a riot!
I had an Aunt who was sent out to India with her school pals when they were deemed ready for " marriage "
She used to regale me of what she & her friends got up to & quite honestly, i thought my 1970s generation were the wild set!
Not a chance! These gels were so very very naughty & totally
Untameable!
My Aunt did bag herself a rather dishy officer with high expectations, in my uncle Neville
I always loved those past times
Of the 1900s, especially the clothes & outrageous activities
Although i did enjoy my 1970s & 80s
Thank You, Simon.
'Triffic narration, top notch.
Your perfection diction, emphasis & emotion, paint such vivid images for us to enjoy.
Peace
🇬🇧👧
@itallia666 Thanks so much for your kind comments, delighted know you enjoyed this series. Interesting question re Australia - L. T. Meade was so prolific in the 1890s, producing new stories pretty much monthly, I'm not sure she'd have had time to visit Down Under! But on the other hand so little is known about the life of Robert Eustace... who knows!? On this very theme, though, I do have something slightly unusual lined up which may be of special interest for Australian listeners - hopefully early-ish new year, so do stay tuned!
Such a satisfying story
Glad you enjoyed it - yes, I think it's one of the best from this partnership, an ingenious idea and well crafted
I have listened to this many times before, but TONIGHT it seems darker, almost brand new.. Mr. Bell came so close to his death. Brrr.
👍👍loved it
It reminds me of a Kylie minogue song." I'm spinning around this could be my last night,". Baby baby baby
Aaaaaaaah 😳🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🐈⬛
Very fabulous 😍
❤
1:20
Very sneaky Killers those individuals was.
Please put subtitles sir
I do add fully punctuated subtitles to all my uploads, they can be easily turned on or off in the settings, using the little icon underneath the screen (exact location varies depending on your device)
The people who police this need to educate themselves. There are several meanings for words which today have been lost. For example. In my childhood gay meant happy. Cheerful.
And small pieces of wood for burning were called Fxxgxxts. As was a sort of meatball.
The you tube police wont let me use this perfectly respectsble word found in all my 1950s children's books.
No
A bit far fetched.
❤