Brickett Bottom by Amyas Northcote

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Brickett Bottom by Amyas Northcote is about a mysterious house deep in the woods that no one but lonely young girls can see. There is a dark secret to this house in the forest, as you will discover. Amyas Northcote was the son of an English aristocratic family. This story was published in his one collection of ghost stories: "Ghostly Company". Though it was published in 1921, I think there is something genuinely eerie and even scary about the fate of the girl. Northcote has been compared to M R James but this story reminded me more of Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood's The Man Whom The Trees Loved. Brickett Bottom by Amyas Northcote Jay Rothermel’s blog Easily Distracted Buy Dracula Audiobook for Download Buy it directly from me at a knockdown price £4.99. https://ko-fi.com/s/a7a5c648b8 If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here Buy 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/barcud Subscribe to my Haunted Place channel here Before you continue to YouTube 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 they?
0:10.5	Everybody come back, isn't that so?
0:14.4	You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?
0:17.1	How do the dead comeback, mother?
0:20.0	What's the secret of dead comeback?
0:22.0	Brickett Bottom by Amius Northcote.
0:26.6	The Reverend Arthur Maydue was the hard-working incumbent of a large parish in one of our
0:32.5	manufacturing towns.
0:34.5	He was also a student in a man of no strong physique, so that when an opportunity was
0:39.7	presented to him to take an annual holiday by exchanging parsonages with an elderly clergyman,
0:46.0	Mr Roberts, the squawson of the parish of Overbury, and an acquaintance of his own, he was glad to
0:52.7	avail himself of it. Overbury is a small and very
0:57.2	remote village in one of our most lovely in rural counties, and Mr. Roberts had long held the living of it.
1:04.2	Without further delay, we can transport Mr. Medea and his family, which consisted only of two daughters,
1:10.1	to their temporary home. The two young ladies, Alice and Maggie, which consisted only of two daughters, to their temporary home.
1:11.9	The two young ladies, Alice and Maggie, the heroines of the narrative, were at that time
1:16.7	aged 26 and 24 years respectively. Both of them were attractive girls, fond of such society
1:23.9	as they could find in their own parish, and the former especially, always pleased to extend the circle of their acquaintance.
1:31.3	Although the elder in years, Alice, in many ways, yielded place to her sister, who was the more energetic and practical,
1:39.3	and upon whose shoulders the bulk of the family cares and responsibilities rested.
1:43.3	Alice was inclined to be absent-minded and emotional. shoulders the bulk of the family cares and responsibilities rested.
1:50.3	Alice was inclined to be absent-minded and emotional and devote more of her thoughts and time to speculations of an abstract nature than her sister.
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