Beautifully written. Beautifully narrated. " Jealous and exacting devotion" the words that premise what to come. A perspective of events through the eyes of the three protagonists. The foreboding of the wife of what to come, her grisly death by her husband. The mystery of the lone figure climbing the stairs heard by the wife or running away in the forest seem by the husband. Who is this individual. A phantom of the man's jealous imagination or death comes knocking on the wife's door.
You did a great job with this. Bierce fought at Shiloh, TN; I live nearby. A truly horrific event: it must have colored his outlook on life. If anyone interested, his "What I saw at Shiloh", written years later, gives a chilling first hand account.
Dude! Your American accent is getting really good! I suggest studying a mid-west American accent because it kind of covers all of us. Otherwise, I feel that these wonderful narrations are just small powerful steps to the next of your beginnings. We need storytellers in our world more than ever. Be Homeric Mr. Walker! You have the talents to write and narrate the next Odyssey- I don’t give a whole lot of compliments because I’m old and jaded and live in the forest. You stand out, Mr. Walker. Keep talking-in all the ways that you do--from Montana, USA with much appreciation.
That was an excellent reading! I felt not that you were reading the story, but that the story was telling itself *through* you. Thank you so much for sharing your talents with us.
Thank you! I appreciate your review at the end. It was a fascinating story. I seem to remember some writer of the day wove Bierce’s disappearance into their own fiction.
I had enjoyed the wonderful stories of Ambrose Bierce from nearly my earliest years. When Ballentine books put out the two volume paperback of Bierce's stories I was astounded to learn that his War stories where every bit as good as his horror stories and black humor. I don't know if it would be appropriate for you to read some of those ghost stories forum. Some would have endings which would justify conclusion. Chickamauga I believe is the best of these the vastly underrated story that had a powerful effect upon me.
The amazing master Bierce. Thanks!! -- Try some of his funny stories also, I bet they are a gas to read (and would certainly be lots of fun to hear you read!!). Keep up the great work!
Wonderfully read. Great voice actor. Thank you from Oakland Ca I really enjoy this! Helps me get through a migraine while in the dark......very mysterious.....
Ahhhh! Hello my comrade- not in arms but in a dark, quiet, room armed with ice packs, peppermint oils and the Wonderful Vocals of Mr T to calm our troubled heads.. I hope you’re having a better day today my friend and are listening to more of Tony’s stories without a Migraine than with one! Hugs!
IMHO, Bierce wrote some of the most unusual ghost stories. How I enjoy the English language! Thanks Tony, one I didn't know. Always love the narrators too. Another hit. I think the other "man" was a premonition of death, forgot how you worded it. THAT WAS YOU?! Impressed is an understatement! Namaste, Z.
Ambrose came to the town where I live. He wrote the story if a mans disappearance out in his field in the middle of the day in front of four people. The town's people cone and walk shoulder to shoulder through the field looking for the farmer and geologists came to look into whether or not there could have been a cavern he fell through but nothing was ever found of the man. His wife became despondent because fir two weeks afterwards, she could hear him calling out for help before it became fainter and fainter then stopped. When Ambrose arrived as a reporter on the job, he wrote up the disappearance then later made it into ine of his stories and he changed the name of the city and people's names. But... that field where all that happened here in Alabama is only about five miles from where I live and in that spot is a very strange set up of some kind because if you go to the dead end of that road you are met with guards pointing something at you and told you need to leave...
You have q very beautiful voice. I am spent my young years in Tennessee. You're accent in this narration sounds French to me. There are so many colloquial accents in the U.S. Tennessee o all gs on ing. And the vowels are elongated and heavy. They also send sound through the nose more than the mouth. It sounds like bag pipes.
Mmmm my oh myyyyy! Mr Dulcet Tonesy Walker! You Golden Voiced Devil, You! The only person I can have in my head when I’m having a type Migraine I’m told is higher on the Pain Scale than Childbirth!😵💫 The distraction you provide while my head… gives birth..(?) is purrrrrfect! Thanks!🥰
Ooh, this grabbed me. I quickly went to hit like button, only to see the dislike button lit up. That was an accidental event. LIKE, LIKE, LIKE!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Your American is pure Middle West. Wow. (Wince) Impressive. Thank you for yet another chilling story which you deliver so well. As R.suggested in the comments, won't you read Faulkner's A Rose For Emily? Or perhaps William Saroyan's The Daring Young Man On the Flying Trapeze? Not exactly ghost stories, but chilly, haunting, just right for for your voice. Thank you. No luck with Patreon as yet. (Brexit, you know) But will keep trying.
You do a good Job reading with an American accent. Would love to hear you read A Rose For Emily by William Faulkner. Not a ghost story, but spine-chilling all the same. Poe would be good, too. I think I joined your Patreon page, at least I tried.
A commentator named Dead lettle office suggested you try the midwestern American accent. I found this a surprising comment what seems your American accent sometimes varies from story to story, it seems to be rather a Midwestern American accent, the preference for many actors in narrators I believe. I do recall one story when your comments you said something about having done a New York City accent and I commented accurate I believe that you had done a wonderful American accent but in no way did it sound like a New York City accent to me. Use whatever accent you want because they all sound great to me. Fantastic narration skills all around.
Jealousy. She wears shrouds and boots and fierce colours not discernible in moonlight. She elongates hearts into roadways and dark forests, and stretches those that they might break, but they never do, do they? They kill and savage, but never break. Or is Jealousy a She? Doubtful. Unimaginative men wear shrouds and boots and hold the scarlet handkerchief like Othello, and isn’t Jealousy a simpleton, even when proven out in circumstance?🧐
You refer to the unknown man who approached the wife's door, causing misunderstandings disaster, is the fourth narrator, which seems an odd choice of words, since he does not affect narrate is there any indication he had any impulse or incentive to narrate. The reference to him as a narrator disoriented me slightly for a Time. None this affects the fact that I really enjoyed your reading of this story. It is a powerful affecting story controlling the reader's mood reactions is any story, is cynical though he was I believe Ambrose Pierce would have been delighted to hear the way you narrated it. Thanks again for this and all the other stories which seldom verge from the perfect. Maybe that Ambrose Bierce is a better writer than you are on many occasions, but I still enjoy the stories you write hugely. The language and expression of your story the Twisted Wood matches or exceeds any story I have read, and I would urge everyone to seek that story in your reading here online.
Tony you do a great American accent but if this story is set in Tennessee you have to work on a southern accent. Listen to Georgia governor Kemp. Only try not to sound so good ole boy evil. Just a suggestion. I love your stories.
Beautifully written. Beautifully narrated. " Jealous and exacting devotion" the words that premise what to come. A perspective of events through the eyes of the three protagonists. The foreboding of the wife of what to come, her grisly death by her husband. The mystery of the lone figure climbing the stairs heard by the wife or running away in the forest seem by the husband. Who is this individual. A phantom of the man's jealous imagination or death comes knocking on the wife's door.
Beautifully written. Beautifully narrated. " Jealous and exacting devotion" the words that premise what to come. A perspective of events through the eyes of the three protagonists. The foreboding of the wife of what to come, her grisly death by her husband. The mystery of the lone figure climbing the stairs heard by the wife or running away in the forest seem by the husband. Who is this individual. A phantom of the man's jealous imagination or death comes knocking on the wife's door.
This one really makes you think: not as easy as you think. Thanks
Beautifully written. Beautifully narrated. " Jealous and exacting devotion" the words that premise what to come. A perspective of events through the eyes of the three protagonists. The foreboding of the wife of what to come, her grisly death by her husband. The mystery of the lone figure climbing the stairs heard by the wife or running away in the forest seem by the husband. Who is this individual. A phantom of the man's jealous imagination or death comes knocking on the wife's door.
Thank you for all your hard work. I am old and ill and your stories give me so much.
I am very happy to do this. I just love reading people stories
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Thank you!! Always appreciate and enjoy your prologues and after overviews..
I have always had a fondness for the mystery of his disappearence. I studied his writing in my literature class. It's a terrifying story.
Yes. Very unnerving
Thank you so very much! Can't stand the News anymore.
These stories are lots better than the news.
Know exactly what you mean it's all just so bloody depressing full of people dying or covid etc it's horrible honestly Saying Hi from Bedford KAZ 🇬🇧😃
Amen…
Thank you!!
You did a great job with this. Bierce fought at Shiloh, TN; I live nearby. A truly horrific event: it must have colored his outlook on life. If anyone interested, his "What I saw at Shiloh", written years later, gives a chilling first hand account.
I’ve never read that. I will now
Shilih was a fierce battle. His writing on Shiloh is telling. His one about Chickamauga is good, as well.
Dude! Your American accent is getting really good! I suggest studying a mid-west American accent because it kind of covers all of us. Otherwise, I feel that these wonderful narrations are just small powerful steps to the next of your beginnings. We need storytellers in our world more than ever. Be Homeric Mr. Walker! You have the talents to write and narrate the next Odyssey- I don’t give a whole lot of compliments because I’m old and jaded and live in the forest. You stand out, Mr. Walker. Keep talking-in all the ways that you do--from Montana, USA with much appreciation.
Thank you for doing your best to honor our American author with a pretty convincing American accent.
Thanks . I try. Don’t always succeed :)
Great story. So sad, and humanly strange. Great job
That was an excellent reading! I felt not that you were reading the story, but that the story was telling itself *through* you. Thank you so much for sharing your talents with us.
Here with Cancer and awaiting Immunotherapy Treatments tomorrow. I love your readings and choices of stories.
Cheers!!
All the best. I’ll be thinking about you
Great voice, my man...
This is a great story. Your narration is amazing. Your voice perfectly lends to the tale.
Thanks for recording this!
Thanks Donald for your unfailing support
Thanks again for your stories - have enjoyed all that I have listened to.
What an amazing narration!!! Thank you, Tony! Incredible!
My pleasure!
Thank you.,. that was brilliant storytelling. Quite heartbreaking x
Thank you! I appreciate your review at the end. It was a fascinating story. I seem to remember some writer of the day wove Bierce’s disappearance into their own fiction.
He wrote some articles in his career about mysterious disappearances, and then he did!
ditto this time around, Tony. LOVE the American accent!
I had enjoyed the wonderful stories of Ambrose Bierce from nearly my earliest years. When Ballentine books put out the two volume paperback of Bierce's stories I was astounded to learn that his War stories where every bit as good as his horror stories and black humor. I don't know if it would be appropriate for you to read some of those ghost stories forum. Some would have endings which would justify conclusion. Chickamauga I believe is the best of these the vastly underrated story that had a powerful effect upon me.
The amazing master Bierce. Thanks!! -- Try some of his funny stories also, I bet they are a gas to read (and would certainly be lots of fun to hear you read!!). Keep up the great work!
Thanks for the idea!
I want your ghost stories only.
Adored this, thank you!
Thank you
Wonderfully read. Great voice actor.
Thank you from Oakland Ca
I really enjoy this!
Helps me get through a migraine while in the dark......very mysterious.....
Glad you enjoyed it!
Ahhhh! Hello my comrade- not in arms but in a dark, quiet, room armed with ice packs, peppermint oils and the Wonderful Vocals of Mr T to calm our troubled heads.. I hope you’re having a better day today my friend and are listening to more of Tony’s stories without a Migraine than with one! Hugs!
Your American accent sounds very authentic in this Tony 👌
Thanks! sometimes I’m hit and miss. I have given up doing it now though
I agree. I think it is good. I am trying to think of which part of the country it sounds like it is from.
@ClassicGhost I think it sounds great.
Thanks a lot for reading.
VWD! Cheers fr (a few miles N of) Nashville! 🤗
IMHO, Bierce wrote some of the most unusual ghost stories. How I enjoy the English language! Thanks Tony, one I didn't know. Always love the narrators too. Another hit. I think the other "man" was a premonition of death, forgot how you worded it. THAT WAS YOU?! Impressed is an understatement! Namaste, Z.
That is a very interesting idea
Ambrose came to the town where I live. He wrote the story if a mans disappearance out in his field in the middle of the day in front of four people. The town's people cone and walk shoulder to shoulder through the field looking for the farmer and geologists came to look into whether or not there could have been a cavern he fell through but nothing was ever found of the man. His wife became despondent because fir two weeks afterwards, she could hear him calling out for help before it became fainter and fainter then stopped.
When Ambrose arrived as a reporter on the job, he wrote up the disappearance then later made it into ine of his stories and he changed the name of the city and people's names.
But... that field where all that happened here in Alabama is only about five miles from where I live and in that spot is a very strange set up of some kind because if you go to the dead end of that road you are met with guards pointing something at you and told you need to leave...
Hey these are great. Awesome reading voice and how it’s capped off w writer’s bio and info about the story. Keep em up!
This was interesting. I enjoyed the narrative at the end.
Nope,
I really prefer your natural voice and accent
Your natural voice is amazing....just be you 💙
I just adore your intro to the podcasts!
Just as masterful this time around,( 3: 30 AM) American accent simply marv--Thank you, Tony Walker
Excellent American accent! Great work.
Glad you think so!
Agree!
Thanks so enjoyable
Probably one the most unusual and original premises I've ever heard ...
Thanks. This was a good one again.
Fear has no brains. It is an idiot.
That got stuck. Love it.
Yes, I agree. Fear is stupid. But who was the other man...?
Enjoyed this so much. Nice reading with a faint accent that is tantalizing. Can’t quite place it’s origin.
You have q very beautiful voice.
I am spent my young years in Tennessee.
You're accent in this narration sounds French to me.
There are so many colloquial accents in the U.S.
Tennessee o all gs on ing. And the vowels are elongated and heavy.
They also send sound through the nose more than the mouth. It sounds like bag pipes.
:-) xxx Thankyou, Tony!
Your voice seems to me like Orson Welles . Interesting tale.
That is a great compliment. He had one of the best voices of all time
Mmmm my oh myyyyy! Mr Dulcet Tonesy Walker! You Golden Voiced Devil, You! The only person I can have in my head when I’m having a type Migraine I’m told is higher on the Pain Scale than Childbirth!😵💫 The distraction you provide while my head… gives birth..(?) is purrrrrfect! Thanks!🥰
:)
Ambrose Pierce..."Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge." Great spooky story. Twisted ending.
Ooh, this grabbed me. I quickly went to hit like button, only to see the dislike button lit up. That was an accidental event.
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Your American is pure Middle West. Wow. (Wince) Impressive. Thank you for yet another chilling story which you deliver so well. As R.suggested in the comments, won't you read Faulkner's A Rose For Emily? Or perhaps William Saroyan's The Daring Young Man On the Flying Trapeze? Not exactly ghost stories, but chilly, haunting, just right for for your voice. Thank you. No luck with Patreon as yet. (Brexit, you know) But will keep trying.
I based myself on Garrison Keiler in this one .
I may read some Faulkner but I’ve got a long list now
Pretty decent Southern accent (says one from Charleston, S. Carolina :)
You're the best!
You do a good Job reading with an American accent. Would love to hear you read A Rose For Emily by William Faulkner. Not a ghost story, but spine-chilling all the same. Poe would be good, too. I think I joined your Patreon page, at least I tried.
Nice suggestion! I’ll put it on my list
Yes, accent is spot on, maybe not a native Tennessean but a “yank” for sure. 😀 Very rare in my vast listening experience.
A commentator named Dead lettle office suggested you try the midwestern American accent. I found this a surprising comment what seems your American accent sometimes varies from story to story, it seems to be rather a Midwestern American accent, the preference for many actors in narrators I believe. I do recall one story when your comments you said something about having done a New York City accent and I commented accurate I believe that you had done a wonderful American accent but in no way did it sound like a New York City accent to me. Use whatever accent you want because they all sound great to me. Fantastic narration skills all around.
i simply haven’t a clue 🕵️
Well that broke my heart.
Your wonderfully good for story telling 🖤
Thank you Jerri
Cool story. Kind of a precursor to Kurasawa's "Rashomon".
How sad.
You do a great American Southern accent.
Jealousy. She wears shrouds and boots and fierce colours not discernible in moonlight. She elongates hearts into roadways and dark forests, and stretches those that they might break, but they never do, do they? They kill and savage, but never break. Or is Jealousy a She? Doubtful. Unimaginative men wear shrouds and boots and hold the scarlet handkerchief like Othello, and isn’t Jealousy a simpleton, even when proven out in circumstance?🧐
Thanks!
Thank you very much.
Owl Creek Bridge ... I'll never forget that story. I always pronounce Bierce like ... Brice...😒😒😒
You may be correct
@@ClassicGhost I don't think so; I've only heard it pronounced your way; just can't remember it!😊😊😊
@@mijiyoon5575 it rhymes with Pierce
@@ludovica8221 Thank You
You refer to the unknown man who approached the wife's door, causing misunderstandings disaster, is the fourth narrator, which seems an odd choice of words, since he does not affect narrate is there any indication he had any impulse or incentive to narrate. The reference to him as a narrator disoriented me slightly for a Time. None this affects the fact that I really enjoyed your reading of this story. It is a powerful affecting story controlling the reader's mood reactions is any story, is cynical though he was I believe Ambrose Pierce would have been delighted to hear the way you narrated it. Thanks again for this and all the other stories which seldom verge from the perfect. Maybe that Ambrose Bierce is a better writer than you are on many occasions, but I still enjoy the stories you write hugely. The language and expression of your story the Twisted Wood matches or exceeds any story I have read, and I would urge everyone to seek that story in your reading here online.
He is the absent narrator
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Tony you do a great American accent but if this story is set in Tennessee you have to work on a southern accent. Listen to Georgia governor Kemp. Only try not to sound so good ole boy evil. Just a suggestion. I love your stories.
Not keen on the voice!
Beautifully written. Beautifully narrated. " Jealous and exacting devotion" the words that premise what to come. A perspective of events through the eyes of the three protagonists. The foreboding of the wife of what to come, her grisly death by her husband. The mystery of the lone figure climbing the stairs heard by the wife or running away in the forest seem by the husband. Who is this individual. A phantom of the man's jealous imagination or death comes knocking on the wife's door.
Beautifully written. Beautifully narrated. " Jealous and exacting devotion" the words that premise what to come. A perspective of events through the eyes of the three protagonists. The foreboding of the wife of what to come, her grisly death by her husband. The mystery of the lone figure climbing the stairs heard by the wife or running away in the forest seem by the husband. Who is this individual. A phantom of the man's jealous imagination or death comes knocking on the wife's door.