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NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS : dark tales, both old and new, performed by voice artist Kristin Holland

NOCTRANS Ep 211 - Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book

NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS : dark tales, both old and new, performed by voice artist Kristin Holland

Kristin Holland

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4.8676 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

M. R. James' creepy tale of a bargain that comes at a price.

NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS is proud to present: 

CANON ALBERIC'S SCRAP-BOOK by M. R. James

 

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NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS is a fortnightly podcast featuring inspired performances of short horror stories, both old and new, by voice artist Kristin Holland.

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, gentle listener, and welcome to nocturnal transmissions, the fortnightly podcast that brings you dark tales, old and new performed by your humble narrator

0:24.9

Kristen Holland this episode we go old with a story from mr. go story himself

0:35.4

him r j Mr. Go Story himself, M.R. James. Nocturnal transmissions is proud to present Canon Albrex's

0:50.3

scrapbook. Scrapbook Sam Bertrand de Camanshe is a decayed town on the spurs of the Pyrenees, not very far from Toulouse, and still nearer to Bagnier de Luchon.

1:13.4

It was the site of a bishopric until the revolution, and has a cathedral which is visited by a

1:18.8

certain number of tourists. In the spring of 1883, an Englishman arrived at this old-world place.

1:27.0

I can hardly dignify it with the name of city, for they're not a thousand inhabitants.

1:33.5

He was a Cambridge man who had come specially from Toulouse to see Saint Bertrand's,

1:38.9

Saint Bertrand's, church, and had left two friends who were less keen archaeologists than himself in their hotel

1:47.0

at Toulouse, under promise to join him on the following morning. Half an hour at the church would

1:52.7

satisfy them, and all three could then pursue their journey in the direction of Osh. But our Englishman

1:59.8

had come early on the day in question and proposed to himself to fill a

2:03.7

notebook and to use several dozens of plates in the process of describing and photographing

2:09.4

every corner of the wonderful church that dominates the little hill of Comauch. In order to carry out

2:16.4

this design satisfactorily, it was necessary to monopolise the

2:20.3

verger of the church for the day. The verger, or sacristan, I prefer the latter appellation, inaccurate

2:27.1

as it may be, was accordingly sent for by the somewhat brisk lady who keeps the inn of the

2:33.3

Chappre Rouge. and when he came,

2:36.2

the Englishman found him an unexpectedly interesting objective study. It was not in the personal

2:42.4

appearance of the little dry wizened old man that the interest lay, for he was precisely like

2:49.2

dozens of other church guardians in France, but in a curious,

2:54.2

furtive or rather hunted and oppressed air which he had. He was perpetually half-glancing

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