Set your radios to spooky.

Then crank the dial all the way past that into full-on blood-soaked screaming horror.

Welcome to Sudapod.

Sudapod, episode 1009 for December 26th, 2025.

Christmas at Beach House by E. Lynn Linton, Narrated by Lewis Davies, hosted by Kat Day,

audio by Graham Dunlop.

Hey everyone, hope you're doing okay. I'm Kat, co-editor at Sudapod, your host for this week, and

it's Boxing Day.

Happy Christmas, everyone.

It's traditional to share presents with friends and relatives on Boxing Day,

and what better present than a creepy, bleak and disturbing ghost story.

Nothing. We know you're welcome.

So, this week we have Christmas at Beach House by E. Lynn Linton.

This story was first published in Routelage's Christmas annual 1870.

E. Lynn Linton was the author of over 20 novels.

She was born in Kesek, England in 1822, the youngest of 12 children, and was largely self-educated after the death of her mother when she was just five months old.

In 1845, she left home to earn her living as a writer in London, promoted by Theodosia Monson,

who was a champion of women's rights.

She finished her first novel, Aseth the Egyptian, in 1846, and also began working as a journalist,

joining the staff of the Morning Chronicle in 1849,

the first woman to be paid a salary as a journalist.

She later moved to Paris, where she became a correspondent for the leader

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