A Dead Finger by Sabine Baring Gould

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In Sabine Baring-Gould's haunting tale, "A Dead Finger," an ordinary visit to the National Gallery in London spirals into a chilling encounter with the supernatural. Our unnamed narrator is tormented by the appearance of a disembodied finger, which leads to increasingly eerie and life-draining occurrences. As his health declines and the sinister presence intensifies, the narrator turns to his ingenious friend, Mr. Square, whose unconventional methods might be the only hope of ending this terrifying ordeal. But what is the true nature of this spectral menace, and what dark secrets does it reveal about the world around us? It was first published in The Cornhill Magazine, a popular literary periodical of the time, in its January 1902 issue. The story was later included in Baring-Gould’s collection A Book of Ghosts, published by Methuen & Co. in 1904. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.2	Stream now. Everybody dies, don't think.
1:01.3	Everybody come back.
1:03.4	Isn't that so?
1:05.2	You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?
1:08.2	How do the dead come back, mother?
1:11.6	What's the secret? A Dead Finger by Sabin Bering Gould.
1:16.6	1.
1:18.6	Why the National Gallery should not attract so many visitors as, say, the British Museum, I cannot explain.
1:26.6	The latter does not contain much that one would
1:29.9	suppose appeals to the interest of the ordinary sightseer. What knows such of prehistoric flints
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