How Pan Came to Little Ingleton by Margery Lawrence

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

One summer Sunday in a quiet English village, something is missing—though no one can quite say what. The air hangs thick with heat, the hedgerows whisper, and down by the river, a tune drifts faintly on the breeze. As the hours pass, unease gathers like storm-clouds, though the sky remains clear. By evening, everything will be just as it was. Almost. “How Pan Came to Little Ingleton” was first published in The London Mercury in 1933, and later reprinted in Fireside Ghost Stories (ed. Barbara Ireson, 1976). Margery Lawrence (1889–1969) was an English author and spiritualist best known for her supernatural fiction. Her stories blend mysticism, folklore, and an enduring fascination with the unseen. ⭐ Join my Patreon ⭐ https://patreon.com/barcud Go here for a library of ad-free stories, a monthly members only story and early access to the regular stories I put out. You can choose to have ghost stories only, or detective stories or classic literature, or all of them for either $5 or $10 a month. Many hundreds of hours of stories. Who needs Audible? Or, if you'd just like to make a one-off gesture of thanks for my work https://buymeacoffee.com/10mn8sk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everybody dies, don't they?
0:10.4	Isn't that so?
0:14.4	You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?
0:17.4	How do that they'd come back, mother?
0:19.8	What's the secrets of it?
0:21.6	How Pan came to Little England by Marjorie Lawrence, published 1926.
0:29.6	The patron of this story is Gavin Critchley, who every quarter gives me some cash to produce a story, and he wanted me to do something mythological so here we go
0:42.3	dear old father pring had been a regular member of the round table ever since that happy
0:49.7	January night when I joined it but it had never dawned on me that he was anything of a
0:55.0	storyteller. Knowing the custom at Saundersons, I yet imagined vaguely that the gentle old priest
1:01.4	was, like the deep chairs, the cosy shaded lamp, the hospitable red-tiled hearth, merely a pleasant
1:09.5	part of the charming Mison scene, a stage prop rather than one of the actors.
1:16.6	I thought too soon, though. It was a perfect June night, midsummer night, and the windows thrown open upon a purple star-splashed sky,
1:26.5	while from the far below streets the hum of London rose
1:29.9	like the faint boom and thunder of a distant sea. I was sitting with whimsical charming
1:35.9	Dan Vasey in the wide window embrasure, looking out over the black peaked roofs, a jagged
1:41.7	cubist silhouette against the marvellous sky when Father Pring joined us,
1:47.0	staring out across the roofs to where in the distance, low down behind the line of black,
1:53.0	a few streaks and slivers of livid green and gold showed the last ragged traces of the sinking sun.
2:00.0	The old man sighed a little and smiled as I raised questioning eyes to his.
2:05.6	A wonderful night, Laurie, my child, an enchanted night,
2:09.6	the night on which they say the old powers have sway once more of mortals,
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