A superb story, well read, conflating mental illness with a (real/imaginary?) haunting and a failing marriage.

Wonderfully read. I'm sorry I missed that Hawkwind gig.

Great story 👍❄️⛄️❄️

You are my favorite reader. Thank you 😊

Great story. My second time listening. Thanks.

Interesting story, which leaves us to debate the dynamics between these three characters. I find the ghost wife deeply sinister in her pre-death declarations; a threat or a promise. The new wife is out of her depth. She is an unsympathetic portrayal of the more modern woman of the time, but she declares a more healthy, less stifling love. The husband is deeply passive-aggressive, with his horrible comparisons between the two.

Beautifully told.. And a wonderful chillin victorian story..

So good, I'll listen twice because I have short term memory issues but then I listen again share like... Thanks some.

This story is very good... Makes you think, which is good !!! Thank you so much...

Good story, no.2 wife is very frightened, very well read, many thanks xx

The second wife sees nothing in the Cathedral, except dread. But learns, the hard way, that the spiritual realm is vastly more powerful than the material.

Oh yes. The first wife’s revenge. Great imagery. And beautifully read as always.

Great story and narration! Thanks! This is a little different and plenty terrifying! That ending....

Excellent!!!♥️

This story is so different from what you usually hear anywhere and I love that about it!

Perfect story for a Nordic snow-night. Thank you, also this time around.

Excellent! Thanks for the story! Enjoy the weekend!

The main character’s experience reminds me quite a bit of my own internal experience with borderline personality disorder. Perhaps I’m just haunted when I get insanely angry for no reason 😅

Lovely narrated so well I love hugh warpole xx

Thank you. Lovey time.

Thank you again Mr Walker for a great little story...burrr I actually felt the cold myself and the warmth of the fire. It's always wonderful how you narrate and your very british dialect. Thank you again.

Masterful presentation. Kafka has not lived in vain.

Thank you for your brilliant readings! Love Hawkwind, enjoy!!

Its long but "The Man Whom the Trees Loved" by Algernon Blackwood would be a great choice for an audio recording. Despite being one of Blackwoods best there's no professional recording.

Looking forward to the Christmas Stories. I have seen the play, really enjoyed it,, very atmospheric.

Tony, I have listened to that woman saying, "You tried to get into the locked ______, didn't you?" very carefully for a number of times, and it *still* sounds like "drawer."

Thank you! Really enjoyed this story. This length is perfect for me to listen to at lunchtime. Hope you enjoyed Ghost Stories & Hawkwind.

Hmmm. So the first wife had said she would never relinquish him... A duly ambiguous ending... The ring pressing into the second wife's neck as she lays dying in the snow... Thank you very much!

First. God Ought to get out more

Excellent, thank you!

Thanks Tony! Great story as usual.🇨🇦👍♥️

Love this. 😆Really wanted my own Elenor until Tony’s insights.

Hawkwind 👀🤩 hope you have a wonderful time 🥰

Enjoy your time in London!

Great story

I hope you enjoy your London trip ☺️

Nice, chilling story. I imagine this is what my ghost might be like if I had died instead of my husband. Thanks for the tale, and do enjoy the show.

Never read any Hugh Walpole, only know his splendid name. But this is quite original and a delight on a cold December night in Massachusetts....

I'm under an electric blanket freezing!!! Good imagery!

Wow that's some story! I hate to give some of the story away but I love how he personifies the snow. It seems like some of these authors have one parent who is in the clergy. It's like they've done a complete 180 and broken away from their religious upbringing. Terrific narrating! I was on the edge of my seat, once again! Thanks also for the cc's. What a great way to start the weekend!

Loved this as I have your others. I'll have to subscribe now since you're going to do Dickens. What a treat that'll be! A dear favorite. Your voice is like a welcome, consoling friend. And I think I now might know why--could it be the part of England you were brought up in? I mean, where you were educated as a boy? If perhaps, you went to the same regional schools (I know they're different than here in the States) say as did another performer, Robert Powell, that may be why I find your voice so naturally calming and embracing. I must've listened to "Jesus Of Nazareth" at least 400 times by now. And for all of Jim Caveziel's zeal and ardor on screen and off, God Bless him, that voice of Mr. Powell's will go with me to my grave. (O, but please don't ever mention that to him should you run into him--he hates that sort of thing! 🤣) No, I've never misconstrued him for the real deal. And I've no delusions THAT the "real dael" has an English dialect at all. But, you and he do have similar voices, so I wonder if you matriculated at the same or nearby bastions of education. I could lie back into both of your voices anytime and feel safe and snug. No, I don't dwell on anything untoward while doing this, so you needn't think anything perverse is going on. I'm just an old, disabled Christian lady of 67 years who, when I was listening to you just now, and the wind outside my apartment was howling its wild high heralds about me, I could see myself in a huge wingbacked chair before a grand fire, sipping tea somewhere out on an English heath. And looking long into the flames as the clock above the mantle ticked its way toward midnight, I'd think of when I once had loved, and how I shouldn't have, and why the fall of heavy boots down a dark hallway sound like heartbeaten anticipation as they approach my bedroom door. Goodnight, Mr. Walker. 💔🕯

So excited ❣️👻❣️

What spouses with temper issues do not realise is that outbursts such as the ones described here are initially viewed as 'temperament' and then quickly turn to becoming repulsive and so boooring ! Love CAN die.

Good heavens are Hawkwind still going? I saw them when they were just whipper snappers - might have been Taunton or Weston & I was still a wild & crazy teenager - I was friends with the supporting band. Amazing! I know this was last year, so hope you let your hair down?!

Enjoy Hawkwind!!

Do Hawkwind still have a statuesque naked lady painted blue dancing in the front of the stage at their shows ? I thought the constant snow was a factor. I've read several stories where there's a constant rain or chirping of crickets or something beyond the interaction of the characters driving them all mad though it's never specifically acknowledged. After all the husband starts behaving out of character as well. And I don't care what the story is. The Evil Clergyman is always welcome. Have a great time at the show and don't take the brown acid !

Hawkwind, eh? Love Space Ritual...and the protagonist herein does not seem haunted by the first wife, literally, but rather her own demons and insecurities. I have acted and felt as she does, with someone I love dearly. Wept over my own inability to control my outbursts, anger exacerbated by my partner's seeming passivity and withdrawal. Help me, I felt. Respond! Fortunately we were able to improve things with time and effort!

I interpreted the new wife to be the "cow," as you put it, based on the sense that the fights had been going on for some time, getting progressively worse, and yet the ghost wife had apparently never actively intervened despite having the obvious ability to do so. And the ghost wife did warn the new one, which seems like an odd thing to do if she had always planned to cross over from the ethereal realm to do a some strangling. The evidence for that conclusion is a bit thin maybe, but I still think the story suggested that the ghost wife had been open to the idea of her husband's new marriage--maybe only within certain rigid and selfish parameters, but still at least potentially amenable to the idea, as long as he was happy. That's the subtext I heard in the"tenaciously devoted" line, anyhow.

That's Ely Cathedral. I know it well.

Hell halve no fury like a woman bored😹

1. Wife #2 was losing her temper and her mind b/c her passive-aggressive, narcissistic husband was mind f*cking her and pushing her buttons. 2. Wife # 1 was warning her that she was about to cross the husband one time too many. Wife #1 wasn’t a devoted wife she was a controlled and psychologically abused wife. 3. The husband choked wife #2 to death in the snow and had killed wife #1 too. Why else mention the ring? It’s his wedding ring she is barely able to register seeing just before she dies.

Meh...disappointing