I don’t say if often as I should :)

I tend to agree

:)))

Thanks Rachel. I never actually followed up on the book of Tobit myself.

I don't understand the story. Would you help please?

The Book of Tobit is an exciting story with Angels, Demons, magic spells, and an enormous fish! Its brief, and can be read in a sitting.

I have plans! I’ll do one if my own in the week I think

I second this, I love listening to Tony talking to use about the stories and his personal anecdotes, even the little bits about colds coming on. It's what makes the channel personal.

I still find time for both of those :)

@Classic Ghost Stories Podcast - Tony Walker I do too, but not every evening anymore. I guess I should have said "mostly." With the kids, I only have about an hour or two once they go to sleep. I have to choose my time wisely! Gaming and watching TV late make it hard for me to fall asleep. Audio books help me to fall asleep.

Did you listen to the commentary at the end? He was a pal of MR James

@@ClassicGhost yes I was glad I was not missing the point it was well read too im new to this podcast but really enjoyed it so far

Oh, to be part of James inner circle, seated in his study, beside a roaring fire while the Master shares his latest tale of disquiet. Yet we have the next best thing with Tony's excellent stories!

@@vintagebrew1057 Ha ha. Not sure I'm the next best but it's a lovely thing to say

Yeah, I haven't had a cold for ages.

🎉 You are the first commenter! It's Tuesday!!!

@@ClassicGhost that story was aweamazing! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Your big long comment about healing has disappeared. But, yes. I did my qi-gong this morning after my meditation. I'm actually feeling fine because I recorded that story a bit ago ;) My cold never developed as it turned out.

@@ClassicGhost That is great that you do that! I’m sorry I thought that it was too long and looked like preaching!!

Thank you very much! You are very kind.

Thank you, Juliet!

Thank you for listening

Thank you Carla

I appreciate that! I do do it for you.

He’s not so well known but was well regarded in his time

I have done very few Irish stories. Even Irish writers like Sheridan le Fanu and Of course Bram Stoker did few set in Ireland. Did you ever read Cre na Cille by Mairtin O Cadhain? I did it as part of my degree . That would count as one but it’s in Irish and very long. The dialect would be beyond me now

@@ClassicGhost I would love to be able to read and understand that. Thanks for replying.

Erm. Dunno. But I do know, making deals with demons never works out.

Off topic here but have you ever heard the story of the vampire of the Gorbals ? As fair a Scottish lass I ever had the pleasure of knowing told me all about this shockingly nasty Glasgow slum and the absolute certainty that seized its children in the early 50s that a seven foot vampire with iron teeth and glowing green eyes was feeding on the kids s. It all came to a head in a three day hunt for the beast in a huge necropolis behind the slum. Seems this story has so many potential dark angles I’m hoping a channel will make a good story out of it. I’ve only just gotten into MR James. His arcane and frankly baffling footnotes threw me a bit but when you get to the meat he’s extremely chilling. To my complete non-surprise he reminded me of Ramsey Campbell because a blurb described him as sort of a modern MR James and I wouldn’t argue that point. If you’ve done any of his stories - especially with a good talk at the end - please do suggest it because I’m filled with curiosity about the man now. I know the one about the huge spiders in the tree, the statue of the monstrous Viking landlord and about the freakish figure that moves in a painting. Beyond that it’s a blank so your suggestions would be greatly appreciated !

No I don’t. My cousin Alastair used to live on easterhouses

Your appreciation makes it worthwhile

@@ClassicGhost, youtube is not my friend evidently, I just received notice of a reply. Thank you and please,as long as you are able and enjoy your vocation please share your talents with us.( I just returned from a Physician appointment and may not be at my best ,please excuse any spelling and grammatical errors).

Oh ta!

Very interesting! It’s a weird condition

@@ClassicGhost my wife has aphantasia and she can only see images in her head while asleep or just before falling completely sleep, having no control during the latter instances.

Sometimes I think the writer didn't know. Sometimes they don't tidy them up. I always think of David Lynch's films. The stories don't actually work out.

@@ClassicGhost Did you ever watch the US mini-series called "Lost"? It's on DVD now. There are so many twists and turns that I was always thinking I had caught them in something that didn't add up but if I thought about it long enough, I think it always worked out. But it really tests you on thinking about it. It has really fun stuff, too like a couple was sitting in a car on a super rainy night and something bangs into the driver's door. Then on a later episode it would have a character getting drunk in a bar who then staggers out and bangs into that car door. If you haven't seen it, you should. (I was actually living in Hawaii at the time and went jogging on a desolate road along the beach and came across the beach location where the crashed airplane prop for the movie was). It wasn't until years later that I watched the series with my sister when I'd moved back to the mainland.

@@lesliekendall5668 yes. I liked the beginning of Lost, with all the mystery but then I got mystified and bites. There was a series of his I watched recently which I liked . Can’t remember the name

@@ClassicGhost bites? And he who?

Hi, Leslie - the boy who knew she was dead was what would have been termed at the time'a simpleton' or 'touched by God.' People such as he were also often credited with insights that others were not, e.g. he went quiet because he sensed that something bad was about to happen, evil was afoot. Once it was over, he simply knew that Mrs Vries was dead. Thank goodness there were no signs of violence because if there had been, he would likely have been railroaded as the prime suspect!

I thought I'd replied to this. In short. I will do some soon

@@ClassicGhost I don't know what you mean. If you have already replied I probably don't remember what you said.

It's the rain.

@@ClassicGhost : For your cold or for Christmas ghost stories? Or both? 😄😄😂😂

Of course when I was brought up we didn’t recognise the Apocrypha. But he is a Protestant churchman so it wouldn’t be in his Bible

@@ClassicGhost Anglo-Catholics often have Bibles containing the apocryphal books and at the time the story was written, loads of clergymen and antiquarians would have been familiar with the apocryphal books.

You’ve got to think what you’re saying. These are not stories to fall asleep to. There are channels that are for that.

You talk out of your cornhole.Lots of other content to be founded.Go find it.

@@clonejones7955 yup I agreed I shall unsubscribe immediately