Basil Netherby By A C Benson

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Basil Netherby is a masterpiece of brooding supernatural fiction. This unabridged audio book style story narrates a ghost story or a story of possession. Basil Netherby has many of the elements of gothic literature. It was written by Arthur or A.C. Benson, the brother of E. F. Benson. It has elements of M. R. James, who was a personal friend of A C Benson and is even reminiscent of H. P. Lovecraft at times in the idea of immense supernatural forces that cannot be beaten. Or can they?#ClassicHorror #SupernaturalFiction #HorrorAudiobook #ArthurChristopherBenson #GothicHorror #GhostStory #OccultLiterature #shortStory #GothicLiteratureGet All Episodes Ad Free!$1 a month for the whole back catalog of episodes on Patreon. Download at your leisure. https://www.patreon.com/barcudBuy Dracula Audiobook for DownloadBuy it directly from me at a knockdown price £4.99. https://ko-fi.com/s/a7a5c648b8If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In HereBuy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker, or join as a Patron for members only stories for $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/barcudLate Night Talk RadioListen to my other podcast! Here https://link.chtbl.com/late_night Support the showVisit us here: www.ghostpod.orgBuy me a coffee if you're glad I do this: https://ko-fi.com/tonywalkerIf you really want to help me, become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barcudMusic by The Heartwood Institute: https://bit.ly/somecomeback Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everybody dies, don't think?
0:10.0	Everybody come back.
0:12.0	Isn't that so?
0:14.0	You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?
0:17.0	How do the dead comeback, mother?
0:20.0	What's the secret? Basil Netherby by A.C. Benson.
0:24.3	It was five o'clock in the afternoon of an October day that Basil Netherby's letter arrived.
0:30.3	I remember that my little clock had just given its warning click when the footsteps came to my door,
0:36.2	and just as the clock began to strike came a
0:39.1	hesitating knock. I called out, come in. And after some fumbling with the handle, there stepped
0:45.3	into the room, I think, the shyest clergyman I have ever seen. He shook hands like an automaton,
0:52.7	looking over his left shoulder.
0:55.4	He wouldn't sit down and yet looked about the room as he stood,
0:59.1	as if wondering why the ordinary civility of a chair was not offered him.
1:03.8	He spoke in the husky voice, out of which he endeavored at intervals
1:07.7	to cast some viscous obstruction by loud hawkings. And when, after one
1:13.1	of these interludes, he caught my eye, he went to sudden pink in the face. However, the letter got
1:19.2	handed to me, and I gradually learned from my visitor's incoherent talk that it was from my friend
1:25.3	Basil Netherby, and that he was well, remarkably well,
1:29.6	quite a different man from what he had been when he came to Treheel, that he himself, Vivian was his
1:34.9	name, was curate of St. Sibby. Drahil was the name of the house where Mr. Netherby lived.
1:40.7	The letter had been most important, he thought, for Mr. Netherby had asked him, as he was going
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