In The Woods by Amyas Northcote

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

What watches us from the trees? A solitary girl begins to wander, again and again, into the woods above her home. At first, they offer calm—shade, silence, the companionship of trees. But as the summer deepens, so does her enchantment. She begins to hear music. She starts to see movement—half-glimpsed figures, never quite there. The woods begin to notice her. And something waits at their heart, beautiful and terrible. This is In the Woods, a haunting story by Amyas Northcote. Quiet. Slow. Uneasy. You can hear it now, on the Classic Ghost Stories Podcast. ⭐ 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?
0:09.3	Everybody come back.
0:11.5	Isn't that sir?
0:13.5	You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?
0:17.5	How do that they'd come back, mother?
0:20.0	What's the secret? In the woods by Ammius Northcote.
0:23.6	The old woman raised herself from stooping among her vegetables and looked upwards towards the wood topping the hill above her.
0:32.6	Her glance was arrested by a pair of moving figures, shading her eyes with her hand against
0:38.8	the Western Sun.
0:40.3	The old woman gazed more attentively at them, and distinguished, outlined against the blackness
0:45.7	of the fir trees, the figures of a young girl and a large dog.
0:50.5	Slowly they mounted the grassy slope, and as they drew near the wood, its shadow seemed
0:56.3	to her to stretch itself forward to meet them.
1:01.0	They passed on and vanished in its recesses.
1:05.2	The old woman bent again to her task.
1:08.9	The girl was tired and unhappy. She was tired with that tiredness that at 17 seems hopeless and unending.
1:15.5	It is a tiredness of mind, an ill far worse than any physical fatigue.
1:20.8	She was unhappy with an unhappiness that being in a sense causeless is all the more unbearable. She felt herself to be neglected,
1:30.1	to be misunderstood, not be it remarked that she was neglected in the sense in which we apply
1:36.5	to those in poverty and distress. On the contrary, she was doubtless, and she herself knew it,
1:42.8	an object of envy to many.
1:45.4	She lacked for no bodily comfort, she owned to no neglect of mind, governesses had implanted
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