A Walk In The Park by William Bundy
The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
Tony Walker
4.9 • 835 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
There is a park at the edge of a sleeping city. A man walks through it at night — tall, cloaked, unhurried — as if he has walked this way before, many times, across many years. A boy watches from a window. Dreams come. And something waits outside in the moonlight, patient as stone, returning with every full moon whether it is wanted or not.
William Bundy's *A Walk in the Park* is a story about inheritance — the kind you don't choose.
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*A Walk in the Park* is published on William Bundy's Substack at redsaidwrites.substack.com, where you'll find more of his writing in the same vein.
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William Bundy is a UK-based writer of dark and supernatural fiction whose work spans short stories, essays, and film. Find his writing at williambundy.com, his Substack at redsaidwrites.substack.com, his film work on Instagram at instagram.com/redsaidfilms, and all his links gathered in one place at linktr.ee/williambundy.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody dies, don't they? |
| 0:10.4 | Everybody come back, isn't that so? |
| 0:14.3 | You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you? |
| 0:17.3 | How do the dead comeback, mother? |
| 0:19.9 | What's the secret? |
| 0:22.8 | A walk in the Dead Come Back, Mother What's the secret? A walk in the park |
| 0:24.3 | by William Bundy |
| 0:26.2 | The air was heavy that night |
| 0:29.5 | Laid in with a sense of foreboding |
| 0:32.5 | So sharp |
| 0:33.7 | It could be cut with a knife |
| 0:35.5 | It seemed as if the air itself held its breath. |
| 0:40.2 | In the distance, dogs barked while the moon lit up the sky. |
| 0:45.1 | Clouds drifted quietly overhead. |
| 0:48.7 | Something was here, and the dogs knew it. |
| 0:53.1 | Their barking grew louder as shadows played in the night air. |
| 0:57.3 | Dread filled the ground. |
| 0:59.5 | Dimly footsteps echoed in the encroaching mist, |
| 1:02.7 | which fell over the land like a wave. |
| 1:05.9 | The houses around was silent. |
| 1:08.6 | Occupants now safely in slumber as dreams raced to meet them. A nightmare lay outside |
| 1:14.8 | as the man, tall, distinguished, faintly handsome, and dressed head to foot in a black cloak, |
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