"Lord Mountdrago" by Somerset Maugham | Macabre stories | Original audio narration
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- In this macabre and blackly comic short story, Lord Mountdrago, Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the British government, reluctantly seeks the help of a psychoanalyst. It seems he is being stalked by a political rival in a series of strange dreams.
This is an original audio presentation of "Lord Mountdrago" by W. Somerset Maugham. It has been performed, recorded, and mixed by Jasper L'Estrange for EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast.
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About the story:
"Lord Mountdrago" by W. Somerset Maugham. First published in the magazine The International, February 1939.
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The recording was created using Audacity and BandLab. Podcast hosted by Anchor.
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Okay. Here's a story I've recorded. Hopefully you can hear it. It's taken several hours just to upload 🙄. That's on top of the several hours it took to record and mix. Hope you enjoy 😊
Soooooo good!! Thank you again for the distraction from reality. 💜
Absolutely stunning reading of a stellar story.
Loud and clear. So sorry this has become so indefinite for you.
Best always
@@lynnc5252 You're welcome.
@@greedyfirstalgorithmlast26 Thank you.
Stellar performance by all. The reader was just superb. I’ve actually never read a story of Maugham’s that I didn’t like. He’s was truly a master of the short story. I’ve read and reread them all over the years. Thank you so much and keep them coming please😊
Thank you for this absolutely brilliant reading of a truly genius story🙏🤗
The more i read/hear Maugham's work, the more I'm taken with his incredible intelligence, breadth of observation, and depth of understanding of human beings.
I seem also to feel his compassion, which, however, never dulls the surgical precision of his ruthless perception and understanding.
He was indeed way, waaay beyond the vast majority of his contemporaries- in so many ways 🙏
What an amazing story.Wonderful narration, I felt I was there.More Maugham please, such a pleasure to listen to this great writer.Thank you for your skilled narration and the work involved in bringing us these great stories.
A great writer read by an actor with a compelling and beautiful voice. A tremendous pleasure, a great experience. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for the great work! Maugham is one of the most _intelligent_ writers of all time.
That was terrific, l suspected Somerset Maugham tended to make his characters out of people he'd had time to scrutinize
Yes, absolutely. The kind of writer you'd be nervous to be around 😄
Brilliantly acted and gorgeously narrated. Thank you for the juicy, engrossing pleasure. Every second of your work is recognised and appreciated. Finally, a reading of Maugham that does his crafting justice.
Thank you 🙏
This performance and story is one of the best I've come across so far, not only by you but out of all. Thank you, much appreciated.
Very kind of you to say. Thank you 🙏
Having just heard some Poe stories brilliantly read by James Mason and Basil Rathbone, I'd have to say that this is one of the most magnificent readings I've come across. Sheer class of the highest order. I've read the story and it is a masterpiece worthy of this treatment. Thank you.
Very kind, thank you.
This story was filmed as part of an anthology movie called `Three cases of Murder` starring Orson Welles as the Lord in 1955. Thanks for your excellent interpretation. Blimey just checked it`s on UA-cam.
Thanks for this, just watched it, Orson Welles was perfect as Lord Mountdrago. The two other stories are really worth watching, too.
@@carolrios9216 I do like the first story, `In the Picture` so macabre and Alan Badel is very good as the charmingly creepy occupant. imo.
THANKS FOR THE INFO
what a gem this story is, as well as the audio narration!
such a great reading of this story, which in itself is so interesting and well written. the insight into the thoughts and reasoning of the therapist is what was so interesting to me. your interpretation is brilliant. i had no idea it took so much work to post a recording. thank you so much. keep safe 🎭🌷🌱
Still one of favorites, I always get something new out of this everytime I listen to it.
Thank Goodness it sorted it's self out. A very clever story, many a true line spoken in it. Loved it, now just have to wait for the next one.. I Love your Voice...😍
Thanks Tree.
I can listen to his stories over and over again, and you reading that is the icing on the cake!! Bravo, Jasper, I love you to the kettle and back 💙💚💛💜
Thanks Hilary! 😊
Fantastic performance of a brilliant story. I was totally invested from beginning to end. I'm a fan of Maugham, but hadn't heard this before. I'm so glad you shared it with us 💜
Thanks Violet.
I was going to add this to 'Watch Later' but dipping in to check the sound I was immediately hooked. I love stories about dreams and the dream state, and this was a good one. Really enjoyed the reading and I hope you crack 3K subs to make up for the hassles with uploading and alleged sound problems.
It's sooooooooooooo slow... (EDIT: uploading *and* achieving numbers)
Oh, well they're right there on the channel page for all to see.
Good story and narration! That ending. I hope the doctor's idea happened. Could not have happened to a better guy 😊!
Mountdrago appears to be an insufferable.....
Thanks for a good story. It is always good when folks get their due.
What a brilliant story - and unfortunately, still horribly pertinent. You have the perfect voice to do it justice - thank you very much!
Oh my goodness. Thanks for Lord Mountdrago. You are the most fantastic narrator, I’m so grateful for the gift of your talent. I can only support you by recommendation , and will, since my pension won’t run to Patreon, but you keep me company in the long watches of insomnia , and I’m so appreciative of the broad coverage of your work.
Thank you kindly! Glad you enjoy the stories 🙏
That was great! Thank you.
Thanks Julia.
Your narration is superb. The ambiance, beautifully suggestive. Well done, old boy
Thank you 🙏
this story was absolutely marvelous to listen to. I was going to simply let this story be another one I listen to before I slept but it was so riveting I couldn't go to sleep (now I can't because of the ending). another well done narration!
I had no trouble with the sound. Wonderful job, as always. Thank you!
Phew! Thanks Rosie.
I really enjoy these macabre stories. Thanks for making these videos.
Intense love and intense hatred are both emotional attachments that bind us tightly to another person.
Being a cold thinking type who consciously steeled himself against love and affection, Lord Mountdrago was therefore unable to understand the toxic effects of projecting intense hatred onto a shadow figure.
This brought the Lordly Dragon down from his Mount, with fatal results.
“War," Churchill reminds us, "is a continuation of politics by other means.”
What a great comment 💚
Thank you!
Another brilliant story, perfectly performed. Thank you so much.
Thank you, Blue. You're welcome.
Those chimes make me grin every time
Oh good. Thanks Lux.
Brilliant! I'm all ears... & goosebumps!
Thanks Terry.
Wonderfully read as usual. Thank you so much Jasper for what you do, you do it so very well! 👍
Thanks Laura.
Outstanding! Thank you for doing this so very well!
Thank you for your impeccable narration. A thrilling, dark tale.😮
WOW! Engrossing tale of Karma. There is a lesson to be learned here hidden in darkness of Narcissism. One of the best stories which is illuminated several notches above the rest within the British Nobility and it's gross self indulgence. Wow.
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Wow this had me gripped until the very end. Weird story absolutely brilliantly narrated.
What a gripping, compelling story-- your presentation, dialects and subtle sound-images magnifies Maugham's intricate , subtle horror. Maugham knows in depth the human mind and soul. Add to these depths the terrors of political manuvering plus a touch of Roman Catholic theology--Jasper, I will afraid to go to sleep tonight. My dreams are vivid enough as it is!!!!😦🥺😳😊Thank you!!! More Maugham? Please?
Oh yes, I'm sure we'll hear more from Maugham. I always think of his story The Lotus Eater, which I find haunting although it's not a horror story.
Wonderful writing and perfect performance. Bravo Maugham/ L'Estrange! Surely your best yet - but I often think that.
Thanks Alison 🙏
That's what you get for being a snob. Show some respect to the people you rely on to clean up your spilled red wine and vomit and they won't hound you to death in your dreams. Another excellent story excellently read.
Good advice! 👆
i remem6er watching this story on t.v., and later on the internet. orson welles played the part of the title character, and i remem6er the scene in which he was singing, "maisy, maisy" from the song. i also remem6er watching another episode a6out a painting hanging on a museum wall, and the same actor who played owen griffiths played an evil little man who some how led unsuspecting people in to the painting, which was really a weird portal to hell.
Sounds like the film "Three Cases of Murder". Apparently that one about the painting is based on a short story by Roderick Wilkinson, but I haven't been able to track it down. Sounds like it would be a good one.
@@EnCryptedHorror oh, i would LOVE to hear you narrating that story. it was really pretty good. : )
" ...the dark night of the soul..." Excellent, subtle selection in light of the news of the past week. Egoism of both the mighty and the insignicant resulting in mass slaughter- the " common man"...thankfully newspapers don't use such epithets these days. A very enjoyable rendition, you made two unlikable characters appeal to our sense of pathos- I'm never sure of late if I get my words right so I can express what I feel so strongly about - so many emotions popping up and a childish? trait in my to play Freud or Jung- I decided to go with the notion, the ghost of Owen murdered the Lord! Thank you. Not "hammy" or judgmental- Namaste
To be fair, the essence of this story would have felt relevant at any point in time you'd choose to read it. Things don't change much, do they?
Ooh, spot on, fella! I enjoyed that! 🙂♥️
Oh good! Thanks Talia 👍
I'm super excited to find your channel! Your narration is exceptional 👏 👌 🙌 😍
@@pennywollett3953 Thank you and welcome 👋
Excellent story, very well read/presented. Thank you. Subscribed.
Absolutely wonderful 🌳 thank you so very much 🎉
Excellent, as always.
Great reading. Would be wonderful to hear you read a story like Julian Fellowes "Snobs," though that’s a novel and a recent one at that. So copyright would make it impossible even if the length weren’t an issue. Just found your readings, looking forward to delve in further. Cheers
I love ur uploads. U really make my day.
I enjoyed very much! Subtle, interesting and well read. Certainly worth a coffee!
Brilliant! I'm so pleased you enjoyed. Thank you very much!
Spot-on performance- you are supremely talented. Thank you!
Very good indeed, thank you.
Fantastic reading!!
Thank you 🙏
Brilliant rendition of a great story!
Thanks Chris! I'd bookmarked this story ages ago, can't believe I've only just got round to recording it.
Beautiful redition. Thank you. Love your emotion.
Thank you 🙏
Splendid!
Fantastic story i thank you very much for posting it
Thanks for listening 🙏
No Welshman goes down without a fight... - or at least something resembling, or something that can beinterpreted as a fight. 😉
Haha! Very true in this case.
When it was written, this would have been such a progressive (and spooky) piece of work.
Indeed. Also...how remarkable that back then you could pick up any issue of a number of mass market magazines and find a story like this by a popular author.
Excellent ❤
Glad you enjoyed 😊
One of the best descriptions of a Tory I’ve heard.
M. was ready to die than to ask for forgiveness from someone who is lower in social level by his opinion. So, his own snobbery killed him Maugham offen addressed this topic.
A Ghost's Tory. 😊
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Just n very average toff then!!
Tea girls young and sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham Street.
Your voice is a cool hand on my fevered face. I took my final dose of paxlovid...still sick as H€ll
Sounds awful! Feel better soon. Glad the stories are helping. Thinking of trying to get myself available on prescription 😄
@@EnCryptedHorror Good idea
First, yay!
Can you hear it? Some people say they can't hear anything?
@@EnCryptedHorror No problems here.
@@EnCryptedHorror I heard it perfectly and it was great!
@@EnCryptedHorror No problems at all & *TY Jasper L'Estrange* 👍👍👍👍👍
@@carolrios9216 Phew!
The English uupper classes always had a
highly-developed sense of narcicistic superiority towards anyone unfortunate enough not to be of same class.
After all, the British Empire was the rrsult of such arrogant thinking.
Snobbery has its price.
Sound not too good unfortunately
In what way not good, Mary? Sounds fairly good to me considering I recorded at home with inexpensive equipment. Elucidate please?
@@EnCryptedHorrorI had some background interference on my version. I don't know the cause I'm afraid.
Are you sure it's not the sound effect when the characters are in the pub? There's no interference when I play it back...
That was fantastic. Excellent performance, as usual. I'm rather embarrassed to admit I've never read any Maugham... Gonna have to check these out
Re~listen ... & in case you didn't hear *Jaspeer L'Estrange *Simon* had his ch revenue restored: so, there is hope for *Greg* ... may take two months but ...I think he will prevail also TS 22:48 my goodness ...did you say *drawers*?* 🩲
Yes. Silk ones.