Clairvoyance by D K Broster

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

What lives inside beautiful, silent things? In a quiet English manor, a collector of rare objects welcomes guests, family, and a child with an unusual gift. The air is calm. The room is bright. But some objects carry more than history. D.K. Broster’s Clairvoyance is not a tale of shadows and creaking floors. It is something more delicate—and more unsettling. A story where knowing too much may draw you close to something you never meant to meet. D.K. Broster’s short story Clairvoyance was first published in 1932 as part of her collection A Fire of Driftwood, issued by William Heinemann Ltd. The collection showcases Broster’s range beyond historical fiction, featuring several supernatural tales that highlight her psychological insight and narrative control. Clairvoyance stands out for its restrained atmosphere and eerie ambiguity, earning it enduring praise among readers of uncanny fiction. The collection is now in the public domain and is freely available through digital archives such as Faded Page and Project Gutenberg Canada. 📚 You can now buy my books where you are! 😊 https://tonywalkerbooks.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some objects possess more than beauty. They hold secrets. At Strowd Manor, one touch of an antique katana awake something long buried. In a house of pristine elegance, unease begins to stir, silent, insistent, and impossible to explain.
0:22.3	Was it hysteria, possession, or something the collector himself unknowingly unleashed?
0:29.6	D.K. Broster's clairvoyance.
0:32.4	Is it a haunting tale of obsession, psychic breakdown, or the return of the vengeful dead.
0:39.9	Originally published in 1932, this forgotten classic walks the thin line between reason
0:45.4	and terror, where the past is never truly laid to rest.
0:50.2	Join me, Tony Walker, narrator of the classic Ghost Stories podcast for this week's episode.
1:04.3	Everybody dies, didn't they?
1:07.1	Everybody come back.
1:09.3	Isn't that so?
1:13.6	You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you? You tried to the long...
1:15.6	What's the secret?
1:17.6	Claverience.
1:19.6	By Dorothy Kathleen Broster.
1:22.6	Yes, it's certainly a lovely place, said Mr Alfred Pickering, the Australian wool-grower,
1:29.3	come home as he looked out through the open French window of the Library of Strode Manor,
1:34.3	onto the Great Lawn, with the lake in the distance.
1:37.3	Of all the houses I've seen in the last couple of months, this is the only one which in the least
1:42.3	bears out the description sent me.
1:47.2	I think you house agents have mistaken your job.
1:49.4	You ought to go in for writing fiction.
1:53.6	Mr. Simpkins of Pottinger Simpkins and Marrow sniggered.
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