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"Sredni Vashtar" by Saki | Classic horror stories | Audiobook
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A sickly boy is domineered and constricted by his puritanical aunt. His only escape is through his imagination - and the polecat-ferret he keeps hidden in the shed, around which he forms his own religion. But what prayer will he make to his ferret god Sredni Vashtar?
This audio narration of Saki's "Sredni Vashtar" includes music and sound effects. It is part of the EnCrypted: Classic Horror Podcast series.
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About the episode
"Sredni Vashtar" was first published in The Chronicles of Clovis (1911, John Lane). It was written by H.H. Munro (a.k.a. Saki).
Chapters:
0:00 Conradin and Mrs De Ropp
2:40 The toolshed, the houdan and Sredni
7:06 "Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar"
9:34 The hymn
11:14 The passing
13:01 Outro
Theme music:
The Black Waltz by Scott Buckley | www.scottbuckley.com.au Music promoted by www.chosic.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommon...
Incidental music:
Sredni Vashtar's Hymn words by Saki, music by Jasper L'Estrange
Descent by Scott Buckley | www.scottbuckley.com.au
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Dhaka by Kevin MacLeod
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All other sound effects sourced at Freesound.org
The recording was created using Audacity and BandLab. Podcast hosted by Anchor.
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@staceymccook5424 3 жыл бұрын
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@MSYNGWIE12 2 жыл бұрын
Saki possessed a slightly sardonic imagination don't you think? This tale was deliciously nasty! A personal favorite, Tober Mory, the wonder cat who outsmarts the gullible. The music added the perfect note! Another talent of yours...invocations of Shiva...and Kali! Namaste
@donaldmccleary9015 5 ай бұрын
Great story and narration! This story always makes me chuckle. The imagination of children and their love of pets. Brings back fine memories!! Saki....another great author we lost in WW1 Thanks!
@degrelleholt6314 3 ай бұрын
Wonderful story! Thank you.
@XadrumLtd 2 жыл бұрын
Great story. Not one of Saki's I'd come across before. Thanks Jasper.
@thehangingparsiple5692 5 ай бұрын
Ahhhh.....! Such a simple but satisfying little tale. Love Saki. Thanks Jasper x ❤
@wmnoffaith1 2 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite short stories ever; it's so rare to actually see people get what's coming to them.
@EnCryptedHorror 2 жыл бұрын
We could all use a Sredni in our lives 😉
@wmnoffaith1 2 жыл бұрын
@@EnCryptedHorror The fact that you actually put in the hymn to Sredni Vashtar is what makes this performance not just excellent, but stellar. I hope if you wrote this song, you copyright it, so Noone else on KZfaq can use this without your permission. So many channels, I can name several, just edit off the intro and ending and upload stories on their channel, not one of which they've read.
@csj9619 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome story. Awesome narration. Super-awesome rendition of the song the boy sings near the end!
@EnCryptedHorror 3 жыл бұрын
🤣 Thank you.
@agnieszkaswietlik5322 Жыл бұрын
Wonderfully sung!
@rameyzamora1018 3 жыл бұрын
One of the little jewels of H. H. Munro - that paean of praise was shivery!
@gohboy56 2 жыл бұрын
Jasper, I had forgotten how well you can sing/chant, O Master of the Macabre.
@gohboy56 2 жыл бұрын
I almost know all of Saki's tales by heart, including this one. I love his wit and my top 2 includes Tobermory. I can almost hear you now narrating that one! This tale is creepy probably because of the boy ** Spoiler Alert ** young serial killer in the making. If you are of faint heart do not listen!!
@GeorgiaPeachHolly 2 жыл бұрын
I LOVE Saki... please do more Saki... oh oh and some of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stories...
@EnCryptedHorror 2 жыл бұрын
I love Saki too. I'm sure I'll get round to him again. Hawthorne is on the (long) list too 🙂
@gietreepersad1102 Жыл бұрын
I love all your stories. Thank you.
@monstersaint Жыл бұрын
Weird. good.
@stephensinclair3771 3 жыл бұрын
Always liked this one. Said this prayer when dear Mr Trump was elected.
@EnCryptedHorror 3 жыл бұрын
I think we could all use a Sredni Vashtar in our lives 😈
@Mi-yc3oy 3 жыл бұрын
🥰 👍🥃
@earthcat 2 жыл бұрын
...and we waltz to a delicious minor key 🦇
@gohboy56 3 жыл бұрын
Every tales by Saki is very short ....some even less than 15 mins. Is there a reason for this?
@EnCryptedHorror 3 жыл бұрын
Hi @gohboy56, a very good question to which I have only potentially unsatisfactory answers... Firstly, I believe his stories were originally written for newspapers (later collected for publication in book form) so the brevity either made them more saleable or met the specifications of editors. Secondly, Saki has a particular style of acerbic, pithy wit (he's often mentioned in the same breath as Oscar Wilde and Wodehouse) that makes economy of language very important (brevity, of course, being the soul of...). I've recorded two of his macabre tales so far, but they are meant to amuse. I think the best answer is that Saki's stories are "as long as they need to be". I'm recording an E.F. Benson story where a description of the fishing village in which it's set lasts a couple of pages. This is marvellously evocative but doesn't add much to the plot. Saki, I think, preferred quick and to the point. (Apologies for my rambling answer!)
@SteveShivik Жыл бұрын
Lol first word in Polish means “medium”
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