Richmal Crompton wrote me a handwritten note around 1960 when I thanked her for all the WILLIAM books. Until today I did not know she also wrote ghost stories-- thanks!
He was a weak man. He took flowers to the grave, the best most expensive flowers from London as a sentimental, overblown gesture. But it was too little, too late.
"Something old and bitter" An old, bitter, but often repeated tale. Shame,.Humiliation. Desertion Despair. This story repeats the old story, Repeated ghosts and hauntings. of old betral. Just as griping, chilling the second time around as the first. Fantastic work, Tony. Thank you
You do deserve many more subscribers and views. I wish that I knew someone to share your stories with. No one I know understands the concept of seeing the movie in their mind. That's what it is for me when I hear a story or read a story or novel. I think that's why movies are never as good as the book. It's a shame, this lack of imagination.
Too true; when I hear a story, I picture the whole thing in my mind. Sometimes it's so vivid that years later I can't remember whether it was the story I read or the movie I saw. It amazes me that others can't do this. Some people really don't seem to imagine.
Tony I hope 2021 is getting better for you. You bring such beauty and happiness to your listening audience.I love your history abt the writers. So thank you.
There is something delicate & so skillful in the way the author develops each character. I was expecting the end but still surprised by the means! Loved this -- helping make 2021 better, Tony.
Excellent story. The only thing I knew Richmal Crompton for was the Just William stories. I had no idea that she also wrote ghost stories, and very good ones at that.
Thank you for sharing your story telling skills. The stories and your delivery are very calming for me, and when you slip in a short musical vocal it's a delightful surprise!
@@ClassicGhost I’ve posted a link to your UA-cam in the M R James Facebook group……..hopefully it’ll speed up your 10,000 goal and let you take a breather……..not for too long though mind 😉👍
Excellent storytelling! I didn't see the end coming at all. You did a masterful job of building the tension and bringing out the emotions of the characters. Thank you for another thrilling experience!
Tony Walker it is a joy to hear you and it's so very much appreciated what you do as good public works. I do not have access to paypal or worldpay because i am in a third world currency, but if sincere intentions could buy coffee you would be awash in it and unable to sleep for the caffeine. Many thanks from University of Dar es Salaam
Awesome! Hadn't heard any version of this before. I loved that it gave me both opportunity to anticipate what seemed obvious in the story future, but also for the lovely surprise ending. Thank you thank you thank you ❤️. Narration was frank and compassionate. Just love your work!
Yes, - outstanding, unfamiliar author. Will say that 2021 was kind of a conclusion, ~knock on wood,~ to a cursed couple years of difficulty for me; the Lockdown, despite having actually caught Covid in December, was more like a needed recovery period.It might have been a life saving break, all said and done. Odd, indeed , how the fates are dealt out; if you live to get through it, almost anything can happen.Sometimes you must keep white nailing it, and hope for an updraft. Best narrator I've heard; concise, natural and flowing.Thanks again.
This is the best story you’ve narrated yet Tony. Hauntingly beautiful. You took me through absolute Hatred for Heath, and what he did to this poor , pure young lady. It made me feel sickened of the world of privelage and state. He used her as a joyful interlude, but no ambition of anything gentlemanly…. I think your summary is far too kind on Heath, and strangely made me feel a bit angry!! But then , the joy and beauty in his heart comes out when he longs to return to Rosalind. The ending is pretty nauseating, with the narrator ‘stepping in’ as such. This story is not about revenge or comeuppance for me, Heath is actually returned to the paradise lost, and this is what he wanted in the end.
Cool Tony. I work OOH North Yorkshire. I’m so sorry if I haven’t seen any of your other replies, as my phone does not notify me of comments. I’d love to become one of your patrons but can’t seem to work this out either?
I don't know, I think his longing for Rosalind is just another expression of his innate selfishness. Again, he only wants what he can't have. If Rosalind were alive he wouldn't give two cares about her except maybe to have her as a kept woman on the side of his more 'proper' wife. I feel the worst for the women in the story. Both of them used by this horrid man
Don't know if there are others but no matter how good the ghost story and narrator I'm always disappointed at the end, not with the ending,, but at the end because, so it seems, it has to be negative and often sad.
TS 36:26 ending music credit mention *Folk Horror Heartwood Institute & later *Grey Malkin* the latter *Grey Malkin is on UA-cam w/ incredible videos amongst my favorite is: *The Wife of Ushers Well* listed as: *The Hare & the Moon then the song title *The Wife of Ushers Well* I believe available on: *Bandcamp* I will share this on my usual platforms...TY *Tony Walker*
Odd listening to this great story. My whole first name is Rosalind, pronounced like Rosa--. I've always been called Rosie and didn't even like my first name until I got older. I don't hear it spoken and rarely come across it. That's where the similarity to the story ends...LOL. Thanks, Tony.
I'm amazed at the level of intelligence your listeners seem to have. Perhaps,it's because your listeners are British?? It would be very interesting in knowing from where they live. As for myself, I'm in the American deep South. Thank you for your uploads . 🇬🇪
I know something about this thanks to UA-cam. Most of my listeners are American. 48%. After that, British at 23% then Canadians, then Australians, then Irish, India, New Zealand, South Africa and Philippines! It's about 3:1 female to male, mostly 55+ in age. I think it's because they are interested in literature maybe??
I love stories you do in your original, real accent. Don't mistake me in the slightest; your American, Scottish, Irish, French and Australian are flawless, and you make the switch between accents so adeptly, one can forget there is only you speaking all parts; your actual voice is quite expressive, and probably the reason your channel is fast becoming my favorite. Although I don't have the means to contribute now, I custom make Guardian angels with couture gowns. If my craft fair in October goes as planned, you can count on a nice contribution then for the countless hours of enjoyment you give me while I sit tediously sewing tiny ball gowns by hand :). Your channel is brilliant.
A little bit of "Take Your Son Sir", by Ford Maddox Brown. A very preraphite story indeed. Even though it was set a little later, it's an homage to the likes of Elizabeth Siddle, Fanny and all the other models whom Dante G.Rosetti and his ilk used up and threw away.
I always wondered if the writer had Elizabeth Siddall and Rossetti in mind during this story; she, too, died from love. She did actually get to marry her painter but it didn't give her his heart. He still ran around, and she ended addicted to laudunum due to her pain and illness. Even his close friends scorned him after her death, and although he lived many years, his life went steadily downhill after her death and he died a pauper. I've always wondered if she haunted him. I wouldn't be surprised. In some ways the stories are very similar.
@@ClassicGhost Yes, I have. That one too has similarities. We have models in love with artists whom the artists feel are beneath them socially. I've just always wondered because in that early version of "the bright young things " as those kind of people were called then, the affair with Rossetti even passed into mainstream which is why he couldn't make a living. He was pretty much despised, especially after he had her body exhumed to get a manuscript he had buried with her. In later years, it was probably urban legend and might have been seen as a good germ for a story.
SPOILER ALERT!! Revenge in classic ghost stories is often the ghost killing the person who wronged them. I don't think that Rosalind was seeking revenge on Heath. I think she wanted to bring all three of them together in the only place that they could be together.
Comment on the children of clergy writing ghost stories. I think like most things it’s a multi faceted set of reasons, but these I am sure are in play; 1. They have no income as such and hence have to make a proper living, doing something 2. They have to make money, regularly and without many skills as they have been bought up genteelly. So writing back in Edwardian times was acceptable for both women and men, gave regular income for stories in blackwoods or strand and could also be anthologised later. 3. They will have heard much of the gossip as they grew up and so will have had access to good character studies to use 4. I’m sure their parents will have had tales told by parishioners about inexplicable events of a spiritual nature, hence more ingredients 5. As people living in spiritual surroundings they will naturally have reflected on ghosts and so on I may have missed some drivers but think that these will certainly help to explain the above average presentation of children of clergy as ghost story writers. Very interesting point. This story. I feel there is perhaps some untold and unintentional narrative modalities at work here if we reflect for a while. The narrator seems unrealistic at the end, my wife would definitely have worked out of me the circumstances of her dead ex fiancés secrets. The narrator seems to wistfully reflect on the fact that he is unable to provide the type of life that his wife will be meant for and her station in life, he says as much. That he doesn’t have the necessary means and she is meant for being a lords wife. I think the female characters are well drawn the male ones less well defined. It’s a good story for sure, almost satisfying other than the fact there is a tragic disconnection of human beings in a capitalist class system that traps them as effectively as any of us.
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Richmal Crompton wrote me a handwritten note around 1960 when I thanked her for all the WILLIAM books. Until today I did not know she also wrote ghost stories-- thanks!
I loved the William books. They were so funny.
Wow! Did you frame it?
@@bloke1348 Have it in a box file somewhere. Would have to rummage to find it.
@@peterchaloner2877 what a treasure!!!!
Good story. Can't say I feel any sorrow for Heath, he was a cad after all.
He was a weak man. He took flowers to the grave, the best most expensive flowers from London as a sentimental, overblown gesture. But it was too little, too late.
@@ClassicGhost Yes, absolutely. Great story.
"Something old and bitter" An old, bitter, but often repeated tale. Shame,.Humiliation. Desertion Despair. This story repeats the old story, Repeated ghosts and hauntings. of old betral. Just as griping, chilling the second time around as the first. Fantastic work, Tony. Thank you
You do deserve many more subscribers and views. I wish that I knew someone to share your stories with. No one I know understands the concept of seeing the movie in their mind. That's what it is for me when I hear a story or read a story or novel. I think that's why movies are never as good as the book. It's a shame, this lack of imagination.
Movies are never a good as the book, it's true. The subscribers are growing. I'm amazed there are so many
I understand Completely.
@@ClassicGhost It will get bigger. You've got the talent and the material. They will find you.
Too true; when I hear a story, I picture the whole thing in my mind. Sometimes it's so vivid that years later I can't remember whether it was the story I read or the movie I saw. It amazes me that others can't do this. Some people really don't seem to imagine.
Definitely one of the best.
Yes, I think so too. It's a classic
Tony I hope 2021 is getting better for you. You bring such beauty and happiness to your listening audience.I love your history abt the writers. So thank you.
2021 has been a lot better thank you;)
Great story! I really appreciate your discussion at the end of each tale.
There is something delicate & so skillful in the way the author develops each character. I was expecting the end but still surprised by the means! Loved this -- helping make 2021 better, Tony.
The author painted a vivid picture. Lots of adjectives. Unusual ending. Thanks for the reading! Good story!
Brilliant. Much catch my breath then listen again. Your narration is superb. Thank you.
Look forward to hearing some more of your own stories great stuff
Excellent story. The only thing I knew Richmal Crompton for was the Just William stories. I had no idea that she also wrote ghost stories, and very good ones at that.
Thank you for sharing your story telling skills. The stories and your delivery are very calming for me, and when you slip in a short musical vocal it's a delightful surprise!
I must look for more singing opportunities. only joking
Ghost/haunted location stories are my faves.. Loving all of these excellent tales you're sharing!
A good story
I thoroughly enjoyed this story. Great job!
I loved hearing this again it’s like Christmas in July
Happy New Year!
😁
This is a great story and superbly narrated! Thank you.
I love listening to you reading, I don't understand some of the stories but this one had everything, I loved it, thank you.
You’re putting the work in Tony…….well done 😊🔥👍
Thanks 👍 I'm working for 10k subscribers, then I will relax and do only 2 videos a week.
@@ClassicGhost I’ve posted a link to your UA-cam in the M R James Facebook group……..hopefully it’ll speed up your 10,000 goal and let you take a breather……..not for too long though mind 😉👍
Excellent storytelling! I didn't see the end coming at all. You did a masterful job of building the tension and bringing out the emotions of the characters. Thank you for another thrilling experience!
Very kind Jody. Thank you
Discovered this podcast on Spotify a couple of days ago. It’s absolutely superb. Your man has an excellent narrator’s voice. So easy to listen to.
Thanks for listening
Beautiful story
It's great isn't it? I have her collection Mist and I need to read through it because I haven't read them all yet.
What a sweet sad story!
Wonderful story! And perfect narration. Many thanks for sharing this.
It ended as it should, each person with the one they loved the best. Poor girl!
This is right up my alley.
That was an awesome story-and as always, an awesome reading!
Thanks Scout!
Brilliant brilliant 👍🐱
Tony Walker it is a joy to hear you and it's so very much appreciated what you do as good public works. I do not have access to paypal or worldpay because i am in a third world currency, but if sincere intentions could buy coffee you would be awash in it and unable to sleep for the caffeine. Many thanks from University of Dar es Salaam
Lovely to hear from you Helen, all the way from Dar Es Salaam
Who knew the author that dominated by childhood could write a such brilliant “adult” short story.Thanks for realising it so well.Off to Kindle now!
Richmal will be looking down on us both
Loved this
One of the best stories you’ve done
Your voice and manner makes all the difference, don't change anything 🌳, thank you so much 🌳
Awesome! Hadn't heard any version of this before. I loved that it gave me both opportunity to anticipate what seemed obvious in the story future, but also for the lovely surprise ending.
Thank you thank you thank you ❤️. Narration was frank and compassionate. Just love your work!
Happy New Year to you too!
Yes, - outstanding, unfamiliar author.
Will say that 2021 was kind of a conclusion, ~knock on wood,~ to a cursed couple years of difficulty for me; the Lockdown, despite having actually caught Covid in December, was more like a needed recovery period.It might have been a life saving break, all said and done.
Odd, indeed , how the fates are dealt out; if you live to get through it, almost anything can happen.Sometimes you must keep white nailing it, and hope for an updraft.
Best narrator I've heard; concise, natural and flowing.Thanks again.
Well I’m glad things seem to have turned a corner and are looking up
Agree, this was a good one. Thanks Tony 🙂👍🏼
Excellent!
Loved every minute of it
This is the best story you’ve narrated yet Tony. Hauntingly beautiful. You took me through absolute Hatred for Heath, and what he did to this poor , pure young lady. It made me feel sickened of the world of privelage and state. He used her as a joyful interlude, but no ambition of anything gentlemanly….
I think your summary is far too kind on Heath, and strangely made me feel a bit angry!!
But then , the joy and beauty in his heart comes out when he longs to return to Rosalind.
The ending is pretty nauseating, with the narrator ‘stepping in’ as such.
This story is not about revenge or comeuppance for me, Heath is actually returned to the paradise lost, and this is what he wanted in the end.
It is a great story. I think she has been underrated. Im working at out of hours GP service tonight :)
Cool Tony. I work OOH North Yorkshire. I’m so sorry if I haven’t seen any of your other replies, as my phone does not notify me of comments. I’d love to become one of your patrons but can’t seem to work this out either?
I don't know, I think his longing for Rosalind is just another expression of his innate selfishness. Again, he only wants what he can't have. If Rosalind were alive he wouldn't give two cares about her except maybe to have her as a kept woman on the side of his more 'proper' wife.
I feel the worst for the women in the story. Both of them used by this horrid man
Very enjoyable, thank you.
great story!
Lovely. A real heartbreaker. 💔
Wonderful storytelling as usual. I’m so glad I found your channel. Even if I am late to it lol
Wonderful...
Don't know if there are others but no matter how good the ghost story and narrator I'm always disappointed at the end, not with the ending,, but at the end because, so it seems, it has to be negative and often sad.
TS 36:26 ending music credit mention *Folk Horror Heartwood Institute & later *Grey Malkin* the latter *Grey Malkin is on UA-cam w/ incredible videos amongst my favorite is: *The Wife of Ushers Well* listed as: *The Hare & the Moon then the song title *The Wife of Ushers Well* I believe available on: *Bandcamp* I will share this on my usual platforms...TY *Tony Walker*
Yes, they are both on Bandcamp
I love you reading this story!
Odd listening to this great story. My whole first name is Rosalind, pronounced like Rosa--. I've always been called Rosie and didn't even like my first name until I got older. I don't hear it spoken and rarely come across it. That's where the similarity to the story ends...LOL. Thanks, Tony.
I never thought of doing it as Rose alind. But it’s nice
@@ClassicGhost Most people pronounce it Ras alind like Rosalind Russell as you do.
@@rosiemcnaughton9933 I have a niece called Rosabella, Rosie for short. Rosa is a lovely name 💜
@@tootsieb11 Thanks!
"How DO the dead come back to life?"
I don't think they come back to life, so much as never left.
Me too. Where would they go? There is only here.
Rosalind is Emily, Viscount Heath is Steerforth, and the narrator is David.
I like that reference. Thank you
Rosalind got her revenge, she also got her man.
I'm amazed at the level of intelligence your listeners seem to have.
Perhaps,it's because your listeners are British?? It would be very interesting in knowing from where they live.
As for myself, I'm in the American deep South.
Thank you for your uploads . 🇬🇪
I know something about this thanks to UA-cam. Most of my listeners are American. 48%. After that, British at 23% then Canadians, then Australians, then Irish, India, New Zealand, South Africa and Philippines! It's about 3:1 female to male, mostly 55+ in age. I think it's because they are interested in literature maybe??
I love stories you do in your original, real accent. Don't mistake me in the slightest; your American, Scottish, Irish, French and Australian are flawless, and you make the switch between accents so adeptly, one can forget there is only you speaking all parts; your actual voice is quite expressive, and probably the reason your channel is fast becoming my favorite. Although I don't have the means to contribute now, I custom make Guardian angels with couture gowns. If my craft fair in October goes as planned, you can count on a nice contribution then for the countless hours of enjoyment you give me while I sit tediously sewing tiny ball gowns by hand :). Your channel is brilliant.
A little bit of "Take Your Son Sir",
by Ford Maddox Brown.
A very preraphite story indeed.
Even though it was set a little later,
it's an homage to the likes of Elizabeth Siddle, Fanny and all the other models whom Dante G.Rosetti and his ilk used up and threw away.
Yes. I like the Pre-Raphs, but they are unfashionable again I think
Thank you Tony.
I'd be lost without your channel some days.
I wonder if the name *Heath* was borrowed from: *Heathcliff* from *Wuthering Heights* pub in 1847 written in 1846?
There's Heath Ledger of course too
Is the photo of Sophie from Sophie's Stage?
I do t know her. I got the photo royalty free from Canva so if she sold it there maybe?
I always wondered if the writer had Elizabeth Siddall and Rossetti in mind during this story; she, too, died from love. She did actually get to marry her painter but it didn't give her his heart. He still ran around, and she ended addicted to laudunum due to her pain and illness. Even his close friends scorned him after her death, and although he lived many years, his life went steadily downhill after her death and he died a pauper. I've always wondered if she haunted him. I wouldn't be surprised. In some ways the stories are very similar.
I think you are very likely right on this. Did you listen to The Yellow Sign ? That has an artist and his model
@@ClassicGhost Yes, I have. That one too has similarities. We have models in love with artists whom the artists feel are beneath them socially. I've just always wondered because in that early version of "the bright young things " as those kind of people were called then, the affair with Rossetti even passed into mainstream which is why he couldn't make a living. He was pretty much despised, especially after he had her body exhumed to get a manuscript he had buried with her. In later years, it was probably urban legend and might have been seen as a good germ for a story.
Might I suggest that you record , 'The Stranger', and 'The Middle Toe of the Right Foot', both by Ambrose Bierce.
You may. I've put them on my list.
SPOILER ALERT!!
Revenge in classic ghost stories is often the ghost killing the person who wronged them.
I don't think that Rosalind was seeking revenge on Heath. I think she wanted to bring all three of them together in the only place that they could be together.
That’s quite nice really
Was this recorded in January? Anyway I really enjoyed it.
Yes
There’s something quite disturbing about this story by Crompton. All this drooling and lusting over a seventeen year old child… Goodness.
Comment on the children of clergy writing ghost stories. I think like most things it’s a multi faceted set of reasons, but these I am sure are in play;
1. They have no income as such and hence have to make a proper living, doing something
2. They have to make money, regularly and without many skills as they have been bought up genteelly. So writing back in Edwardian times was acceptable for both women and men, gave regular income for stories in blackwoods or strand and could also be anthologised later.
3. They will have heard much of the gossip as they grew up and so will have had access to good character studies to use
4. I’m sure their parents will have had tales told by parishioners about inexplicable events of a spiritual nature, hence more ingredients
5. As people living in spiritual surroundings they will naturally have reflected on ghosts and so on
I may have missed some drivers but think that these will certainly help to explain the above average presentation of children of clergy as ghost story writers. Very interesting point.
This story.
I feel there is perhaps some untold and unintentional narrative modalities at work here if we reflect for a while.
The narrator seems unrealistic at the end, my wife would definitely have worked out of me the circumstances of her dead ex fiancés secrets.
The narrator seems to wistfully reflect on the fact that he is unable to provide the type of life that his wife will be meant for and her station in life, he says as much. That he doesn’t have the necessary means and she is meant for being a lords wife.
I think the female characters are well drawn the male ones less well defined. It’s a good story for sure, almost satisfying other than the fact there is a tragic disconnection of human beings in a capitalist class system that traps them as effectively as any of us.
A very thoughtful and well-put response. Thank you very much for writing it!