“I'm delighted to announce a new series of ghost story readings from E F Benson and other authors. Search YouTube for Ghost Stories read by Richard Crowest.”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“I woke again with the sense that there was something creeping up to the house, like the fog that was now thick outside my window, and seeking admittance.”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“With a sudden sinking of his heart, he heard behind him the step which he thought he had silenced for ever.”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“I went to sleep at once, and from dreamlessness awoke suddenly to a consciousness of terror and imminent peril.”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“Terror, that was slowly becoming a little more definite, terror of some dark and violent deed that was momently drawing nearer to me held me in its vice.”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“At that moment I saw the face of Fear; my mouth went dry, and I heard my heart leaping and cracking in my throat.”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“All was not well with the house: in some strange manner the shadow that had come between her closed eyes and the sun as she sat on the garden-bench had entered, and was establishing itself more firmly day by day.”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“I could not stir, I could not speak. I could only strain my ears for the inaudible and my eyes for the unseen, while the cold wind from the very valley of the shadow of death streamed over me.” (Note: this story features a suicide.)Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“Then suddenly I saw something black move in the dimness in front of me, and against the grey foam rose up first the head, then the shoulders, and finally the whole figure of a woman…”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“I am sure that no phantom of the dead that die not could have evoked so unnerving a terror.”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“I tell you that vampirism is by no means extinct now. An outbreak of it certainly occurred in India a year or two ago.”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“Every guest on his arrival in the house is told that the long gallery must not be entered after nightfall on any pretext whatever.”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“In the shadows in the corner of my room there sits something more substantial than a shadow.”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“Then the sense of nightmare began, for his two companions, gripping him tightly, pulled him along towards it, and he struggled with them knowing there was something terrible within.”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“An odd uneasiness came over me, for I had been so certain that the house was uninhabited.”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“At that moment the memory of the séance the evening before, about which up till now I had somehow felt distrustful and suspicious, passed into the realm of sober fact…”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“Soft as the fall of a single snow-flake, fear settled on his heart…”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“Find it and have it buried, and then I shall be free from its dreadful presence.”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“The only live thing that lurked here was that monstrous, mysterious creature of evil.”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“Just room for one inside, sir…”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“A-pen-ara curses any who desecrates or meddles with her bones…”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“Jack will show you your room. I have given you… the room in the tower…”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“In the paralysis of that fear I tried to scream, but not a sound could I utter.”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“The thing seemed scarcely human at all; it was a monster from which he had delivered himself...”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“A dream hasn’t anything real about it, has it? It doesn’t mean anything?”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“I think that before I opened the pill-box I expected something of the sort which I found in it.”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“I knew I was not alone in the room. There was something there, something silent as yet, and as yet invisible. But it was there.”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“One of the things invisible, of the dark powers, leaped into light, and I saw it with my eyes…”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

Recorded in front of an audience at E F Benson’s home, Lamb House in Rye.Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

"I can't go back now. I wouldn't if I could; not a step would I retrace…"Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

It is not only the dead who haunt the living.Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

“Surely this is the strangest manner of song ever yet heard on the earth, this melody from the brain of the dead...”Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu

Something has come in to the house. Come in out of the rain...Richard Crowest tarafından oluşturuldu