A tale of love and loss this week; written in 1904, The Highwayman is a romantic ballad. Set in the England of King George III, the poem tells the story of a highwayman, who has fallen in love with an innkeeper’s beautiful daughter and the betrayal that follows.
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8 Jun 2020
The Man of Science – Jerome K. Jerome
The Man of Science – Jerome K. Jerome
This week, our story is The Man of Science. It is a short ghost story with some comic elements by the British author Jerome K. Jerome, first published in the September 1892.
The story's titular character, and protagonist, comes to believe that a skeleton which he has recently acquired is that of his old enemy, who died before fulfilling his greatest desire... to kill the scientist.
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25 May 2020
Darkness, by Lord Byron
Welcome back, this week: Darkness – by Lord Byron.
We take a turn into the natural world this week, with Darkness, a poem by Lord Byron. Written in July 1816, when the largest volcanic eruption on record cast darkness across much of north-east America and northern Europe.
It was known as The Year without Summer. This darkness inspired Byron to tell an apocalyptic story of the last man on earth…
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19 May 2020
Dagon, by H. P. Lovecraft
Back again for another dark tale? This week’s story is Dagon, by H. P. Lovecraft, written in July, 1917.
The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who plans to commit suicide after having been washed up on the shore of a very strange land, inhabited by even stranger creatures. He escapes the land, but not the memories that he tries so hard to suppress…
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11 May 2020
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
For those of you who like a little scare… but prefer the tingly kind to the kind that is on the news; Welcome to Ghost Stories from The London Dungeon.
Each week we will be reading the ghost stories of yesteryear, for you to listen to at your pleasure. Maybe a bedtime story?
We start with classic this week, the grandfather of gothic horror – Edgar Allan Poe, and The Tell-Tale Heart.
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4 May 2020
Classic horror stories & poems coming soon
For those of you who like a little scare… but prefer the tingly kind to the kind that is on the news; Welcome to Ghost Stories from The London Dungeon.
Every Monday evening, we will be reading the ghost stories of yesteryear, for you to listen to at your pleasure. Maybe a bedtime story?
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