Kerfol by Edith Wharton
The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
Tony Walker
4.9 • 835 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 91 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's not many things as epic as jumping over a volcano in a monster truck or even swinging over a crocodile-infested river. |
| 0:07.0 | But 15% off when you spend 15 pounds at Mackeys comes pretty close. |
| 0:10.6 | Deal drop. |
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| 0:14.0 | 18 plus app only. |
| 0:15.2 | One time use per week until the 20th of April. |
| 0:16.7 | Minimum spend and discount apply to food and drink items only. |
| 0:18.7 | Participating restaurants, T season apply. ...story Kerval, published in 1911. |
| 0:23.7 | A solitary traveller visits an ancient house in Brittany, |
| 0:27.3 | a place shrouded in silence and mystery. |
| 0:31.4 | Wandering the grounds, he encounters a pack of strange, silent dogs, |
| 0:36.5 | their watchful eyes heavy with meaning. But Kerfal |
| 0:40.4 | is no ordinary house. Its walls seem to echo with an unspoken history, a lingering presence |
| 0:47.5 | that refuses to be forgotten. What happened within its cold stone walls? And why do the dogs remain? |
| 0:58.0 | Karephol by Edith Wharton. Everybody dies, don't they? Everybody tell you. |
| 1:11.6 | Care Foll by Edith Wharton, published 1916. |
| 1:16.6 | You ought to buy it, said my host. |
| 1:19.6 | It's just the place for a solitary-minded devil like you, |
| 1:23.6 | and it would be rather worthwhile to own the most romantic house in Brittany. |
| 1:28.9 | The present people are dead broke, and it's going for a song. You ought to buy it. |
| 1:35.7 | It was not with the least idea of living up to the character, my friend La Rivene ascribed to me, |
| 1:42.0 | as a matter of fact, under my unsociable exterior, I have always had |
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