An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by J Sheridan Le Fanu

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Classic Ghost Stories Podcast - Tony Walker

10 ай бұрын

Prepare for a chilling journey as we delve into the eerie world of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street." This Victorian ghost story, set in a haunted house in Dublin, is a masterclass in suspense and terror.
Two medical students move into an old house, only to be plagued by nightmares and haunted by the apparition of a cruel old man. As the terror escalates, they must confront the sinister legacy that lingers within the house's walls.
Le Fanu's ghost is not a typical Victorian spectre seeking justice, but a malevolent entity that continues to inflict harm even after death. This departure from the norm adds a unique twist to the tale, making it a standout in the genre.
Le Fanu's view of the world as chaotic and unpredictable is reflected in his portrayal of the supernatural. In his universe, the supernatural is not a force for justice or equilibrium, but a source of further chaos and violence.
Join us for a captivating narration of one of the most compelling ghost stories of the Victorian era. Will the students escape the horrors of Aungier Street? Tune in to find out.
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@DarkLightSwordFight 5 ай бұрын

🖤🖤🤘🤘🤘in a world of quick and dirty short form content i thank god for channels like this

@Bluelady777 10 ай бұрын

No one can read a story better than this guy.

@sugarfalls1 4 ай бұрын

Tony, I binged on your newest stories last night! Was sooo good! The way British people say "hall" from the back of the throat is so much scarier and better than the American version (I am the American! lol) Just that little detail alone made your reading of the story so much better and authentic! Many thanks from the Atlantic seaboard! All the best to you in 2024!!!

@lauriewarner4848 10 ай бұрын

What a incredible voice I am listening to. How on this gods given earth have I not listened to you before. Thank you! Brilliantly executed.

@JD-cw4qg 10 ай бұрын

😊

@nataliepOU812 6 ай бұрын

I try other channels for variety but always come back to you Tony. You are just the best. Greetings from Seattle on a perfectly rainy night 🌃

@ClassicGhost 6 ай бұрын

I'm glad that you do!

@jamesblahut5008 10 ай бұрын

I love it when you and Bitesized Audio Classics read the same stories. It's really fun to see what each of you bring to a tale!

@amandine512 10 ай бұрын

Tony has ruined any ability I had to listen to other narrators, save Ian Gordon, he’s that good.

@jamesblahut5008 10 ай бұрын

@@amandine512 I enjoy Simon Stanhope. He's definitely an actor, and Tony is more of an academic. I appreciate both approaches.

@elless4817 10 ай бұрын

@@amandine512I feel exactly the same way. I’m so disappointed listening to anyone but Tony. I used to like the Bitesize stories but he’s fallen way behind Tony IMO. Tony is truly gifted at this.

@soundsilence2604 10 ай бұрын

To my ears, Tony shines in all things ghostly, macabre or fantastical. Simon's voice best suits mysteries and humor. Both make brilliant productions, but I'm admittedly partial to Tony's creepy-calm intonations (and post-story waffle).

@VoltaireVI 10 ай бұрын

Stanhope seems to me more like no actor. His pauses are so unnervingly tedious and artificial. With one exception: A compilation of Saki's stories.

@sathurxy49 9 ай бұрын

Tony, as a Dubliner, thank you for pronouncing Aungier Street as it has been for centuries. There are versions of this story, but, the narrators pronounce that street name in the French style after the town of the same spelling. It's not their fault. Absolutely understandable. Your attention to detail is superb.

@ClassicGhost 9 ай бұрын

+Joseph Wearen Thank you Joseph! Much appreciated. I did have to look it up :)

@djkelleher3557 10 ай бұрын

Greetings from Cork, Ireland 🇮🇪. It's my first time listening to you, and I must compliment you for both your storytelling and your insights/ramblings! It's a treat to listen to you. Thank you 😊

@ClassicGhost 10 ай бұрын

Great to have you here. You must recommend some good Cork stories

@robinpresleywoodward 16 күн бұрын

I could live in one of those houses shown in your tranquil art.❤

@A_QuestioningSoul 10 ай бұрын

The commentary afterwards is a great addition! 👌🏾👌🏾

@lyndabrennan4560 10 ай бұрын

How wonderful, have a lovely weekend Tony 👏💛

@janislohman8125 10 ай бұрын

Your voice is perfect for this reading. Well done! GOD bless you

@samjuby5933 3 ай бұрын

What a fabulous story Tony, your brilliant, ignore the haters, they are just jealous, laugh at them and feel sorry for them as they are sad

@iamlunalane 10 ай бұрын

❤ by far my favourite narrator of thrilling tales of horror and intrigue

@amandalee215 10 ай бұрын

Thank you Tony another great story proper Friday night treat!

@martiwilliams4592 10 ай бұрын

Truly gripping, horrifying tale. Love your vivid narrations and interesting "ramblings". Le Fanu never fails to scares me silly. Uncle Silas kept me awake until the very last page. Thank you, tony!

@violetfemme411 10 ай бұрын

What a lovely surprise! Thank you 💜

@DenWell-SeedsOfChaos 10 ай бұрын

I worked at two Waldenbooks and one small family-owned bookstore. All three were horrible experiences full of horrible humans being shitheads at every opportunity. I would say, keep your "working at a bookstore" as a pleasant fantasy and don't ruin it with reality. I know this is a real bummer of a comment but this was my experience in California, maybe it will be much nicer there in England, where I imagine it to be lovely and perfect all the time, right! 🥰Please take my opinion for what it is worth... Two US pennies? One..? Okay, it's free.

@mwilson7842 10 ай бұрын

Who was worse, your employers or the customers? Just curious 🧐

@ClassicGhost 10 ай бұрын

I suspect it's much the same to be fair. I didn't apply for it in the end.

@shawnsutherland7080 10 ай бұрын

“I’m looking for a book…I don’t know the title, and I can’t remember who wrote it…but it’s got a black cover and white letters…you know the book I’m talking about, right?” Or the time a guy (who was looking for A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole) opened with “Do you have that book by that guy who killed himself?”

@donaldmccleary9015 10 ай бұрын

Great story and narration. I have heard this before, but as always, your rendition is the best. I like this one anytime I hear it.

@ClassicGhost 10 ай бұрын

Thank you, Donald.

@Sn4fu 10 ай бұрын

Ahh I’m so glad I found your channel again!! I forgot the name! Exactly what I wanted to listen to today.

@daniethegirl029 10 ай бұрын

Love the pic 🖤

@TheMrCougarful 10 ай бұрын

A brilliant reading. Thanks much.

@amandine512 10 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@ClassicGhost 10 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

@HollysBookishRealm 10 ай бұрын

You are one of my favourite channels right now... thank you for a great time every video!

@ClassicGhost 10 ай бұрын

thank you

@sleethmitchell 10 ай бұрын

years of living on small old sailboats, never making any money, instilled in me the desire to run a small used bookstore. many cheap-o marinas have paperback book exchanges... offering showers and a coin laundry to the boat-bound along the intracoastal waterway... benign ghosts, coming and going, through the sounds of the north and south carolinas.

@ClassicGhost 10 ай бұрын

Sounds delightful!

@georgeohwell7988 10 ай бұрын

Fantastic reading

@mariameere5807 10 ай бұрын

Excellent work as usual Tony! Loving the art! Thank you so much 🙏🫶✨🫶

@JD-cw4qg 10 ай бұрын

Love this tale and your version is brilliant, thanks

@ClassicGhost 10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

@alison155 4 ай бұрын

Love these rambles 😂

@ClassicGhost 4 ай бұрын

Glad you do .

@thurayya8905 10 ай бұрын

I have noticed that in horror or tragedy or any media where there is prolonged suspense or heavy emotion, it is more effective if there is an interjection of humor or lightness. I first noticed this years ago when my friends persuaded me to see "The People Under the Stairs" with them. Wes Craven would get the audience chuckling over some antic, relaxed, then -- pow! -- he would have something jump out and everyone would scream. If you don't produce that contrast, the audience will provide it themselves, which is probably why we find the B horror films of the fifties so silly. Well, that, and bad writing.

@violetfemme411 10 ай бұрын

"This kind of petered out." 😂😂😂😂 But always entertaining 💜

@johnroche7541 9 ай бұрын

What makes this story so special and real for me is that I know that area in Dublin very well. I can visualise the story. The great Irish literary man James Joyce lived nearby at one stage. This is one of my all time favourite ghost stories. Huge fan of Sheridan La Fanu. MR James the great English ghost story writer states that Le Fanu was the greatest of the genre. I would also recommend the ghost story "The Judges House" written by Sheridans fellow Irishman Bram Stoker who is more fsmous for writing the vampire classic "Dracula". Sheridan wrote a great vampire story called "Camila" which was made into a movie by the famous Hammer film productions starring Peter Cushing.

@ClassicGhost 9 ай бұрын

+John Roche The Judge’s House is on my list

@itendzinplural9563 9 ай бұрын

You’re a wonderful storyteller :) thanks!

@ClassicGhost 9 ай бұрын

+It Endz In Plural thank you very much 🙏

@feralbluee 9 ай бұрын

really enjoyed your reading. your quiet tenor voice is calming and easy to listen to, while giving one the shivers in the right places. i’m already subscribed and now i know why :). thanks much for telling us all these stories. have a great day :) 🌷🪻🌱

@ClassicGhost 9 ай бұрын

Wonderful! thank you for subscribing

@70schild420 10 ай бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏👏bravo💀👻

@brandyjean7015 10 ай бұрын

I adore your narrations. Although I did chuckle @ your stentorian 'Who goes there?' It had enough volumn, but seemed more petulant than powerful. Of course, I entirely blamey own perception for this disconnect. When I think stentorian, I think James Earl Jones.

@ClassicGhost 10 ай бұрын

I am practising stentorian in front of the mirror even now. Gruff, powerful, no nonsense. It's the new me!

@tracibrown6431 10 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@ClassicGhost 10 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

@libertycowboy2495 10 ай бұрын

Very enjoyable tale. Love Le Fanu's works. Always enjoy your narrations.

@LadyEng 10 ай бұрын

This is my first time listening to you and I am fascinated! Cheers from your new Argentine fan.

@Dontstopbelievingman 10 ай бұрын

Your voice reminds me of Rahul kohli. Very nice to listen to.

@Story-Voracious66 10 ай бұрын

Equipage! I my heart leapt to hear you say the word. I just love it when you talk clean! 😆. Sunday meal prep day for me, Asian food from Nam prick sauce and marbled eggs for breakfast, to vegan, ginger and eschalot sauce fried greens with home sauce marinated faux duck for dinner. (Chop, chop, cho, chop. I love faux duck so much! I guess you could call it seitan worship!) Today you have made my Char Siew a lot sweeter. Thanks Tony.

@ClassicGhost 10 ай бұрын

+April Wakefield your sunday was before mine. i like that word too . an impious and quotidian

@Story-Voracious66 10 ай бұрын

Oh I'm all a shiver! Such words, and a man who knows how to say them. Interlocutor, is another word that I love. It is percussive by sound and engaging by meaning. 🥁🔗

@LucicPower 10 ай бұрын

Didactic

@chernobyl7.347 20 күн бұрын

This was made into an old radio show back in the day I believe called "The Judges House" or something similar

@JasonJason210 10 ай бұрын

The thumb was also very good!

@ClassicGhost 10 ай бұрын

Ta!

@JasonJason210 10 ай бұрын

@@ClassicGhostWhere is the artwork from, may I ask?

@ClassicGhost 10 ай бұрын

sorry , yes it’s Midjourney

@daniethegirl029 10 ай бұрын

Maybe one day you’ll own a bookshop❤❤ I’d shop there

@ClassicGhost 10 ай бұрын

+Abrams_Like_The_Tank i often fantasise about having a bookshop

@ainemoroney9965 10 ай бұрын

Very happy to hear you sharing your puppy training experiences, this is something many people and puppies will benefit from. BTW - if Ruby has an aluminium bowl she will see a dog reflection and find that off putting.... Ceramic or non breakable is worth a try.... Bookshop keepers don't worry about the appearance 😅 - you just have to get the "book keeper accent" ( nasal, condescending....) - you love accents 😅

@ClassicGhost 10 ай бұрын

Ha ha. Nasal, condescending. I'm a natural!

@ginadoughty6950 9 ай бұрын

Omg you finished your video with exactly what I said lol

@amandine512 10 ай бұрын

If your channel name was on the mugs you sell then I would like to buy one.

@ClassicGhost 10 ай бұрын

It used to be, but this is a different design.

@70schild420 7 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@saschafiege4242 10 ай бұрын

Can somebody define what newly fronted means?

@tabithacollins6003 3 ай бұрын

I think that it means that the original old facade facing the street, had been modernized, to make the house look more modern at the time, but even that had now fallen into disrepair. All the best from Germany 🙂

@mrblaxto 6 ай бұрын

I feel some of these later readings feel too cheerful for the subject matter imho.

@ClassicGhost 6 ай бұрын

lol. some other guy just told me i was too boring. i suppose those aren’t mutually exclusive. At least I’m a cheerful bore which is better than the alternative:)

@amandine512 9 ай бұрын

You are too good to work at a bookshop. You should own one.

@karlinguk 10 ай бұрын

Unlike the excellent and much more palatable.. Derwentwater narration Although nothing against the reader this story's use of descriptive words is superfluous; there is a overuse of colour... Making it too complicated to follow. Why do some writers overkill by adding too much to the canvas so to speak?... Tse Limited audience.