Negotium Perambulans by E. F. Benson

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Prepare to be captivated by E.F. Benson's haunting tale, 'Negotium Perambulans.' Join us as we journey into the depths of a mysterious fishing village in West Cornwall, where supernatural forces lurk in the shadows. In this chilling story, a young man's return to his childhood home unearths dark secrets and encounters with a malevolent creature known as 'Negotium Perambulans.' With elements of Gothic horror and psychological suspense, this atmospheric narrative explores themes of sin, punishment, and the blurred boundaries between the natural and the supernatural. Join us for a spine-tingling reading that will leave you questioning the nature of evil itself. New Patreon Request Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREE 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	Negotium
0:07.0	Dyeye's
0:10.0	Everybody come back
0:12.0	Isn't that so?
0:14.0	You tried to get into the locked-drawn today, didn't you?
0:17.0	How do the dead come back, mother?
0:20.0	Negotium Perambulance by E.F. Benson.
0:28.2	The casual tourist in West Cornwall may just possibly have noticed, as he bowled along over the bare high plateau between Penzance and Lanz End,
0:39.2	a dilapidated signpost pointing down a steep lane,
0:43.6	and bearing on its battered finger the faded inscription,
0:47.2	Paulain, two miles.
0:50.2	But probably very few have had the curiosity to traverse those two miles in order to see a place,
0:57.6	to which their guidebooks award so cursory a notice.
1:02.0	It is described there, in a couple of unattractive lines, as a small fishing village,
1:08.4	with a church of no particular interest except for certain
1:13.6	carved and painted wooden panels, originally belonging to an early edifice which form an altar
1:20.6	rail.
1:21.6	But the church at St. Creed, the tourist is reminded, has a similar decoration, far superior in point of preservation and interest, and thus even the ecclesiastically disposed, are not lured to Polain.
1:39.4	So meagre a bait is scarce worth swallowing, and a glance at the very steep lane which in dry weather
1:46.0	presents a carpet of sharp-pointed stones, and after rain, a muddy watercourse, will almost
1:53.2	certainly decide him not to expose his motor or his bicycle to risks like these, and so sparsely populated a district.
2:04.5	Hardly a house has met his eye since he left Penzance, and the possible trundling of a
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