Welcome to the place where the calls are always coming from inside the house.

This is Pseudopod, the weekly horror podcast. Disturbing content follows now. Sudapod episode 657 for July 19th 2019.

Waxworks by W.L. George.

I'm Alex, one of your editors here at Sudopod, your host this week.

Walter Lionel George was an English writer, chiefly known for his popular fiction, which included

feminist, pacifist, and pro-labor themes.

According to Alex Waugh, he was commercially successful, helpful and practical terms to upcoming authors,

but unpopular in the literary world for his subject matter,

his hack journalism and his left-wing views.

In 1945, George Orwell included George and a list of natural novelists not inhabited by good taste and particularly praised Caliban, which is a fictionalized account of the life of Lord Northcliffe for its memorable and truthful picture of London life.

The story originally appeared in the Strand magazine in 1922 under the title Wax Works, A Mystery.

Your narrator this week is Simon Medings.

Simon is a freelance writer and script writer.

He also is an actor and has recently appeared in the horror film Poulterheist directed by David Gilbank.

Simon hosts the Waffle On Podcast that can be found on Podween. Now we have a story for you and we promise you.

It's true. Waxworks by W.L. George, narrated by Simon Meddings.

Henry Badger rapidly paced the city churchyard. His air of anxiety seemed to

over weigh his small, though not unpleasing features. He was an insignificant man, dressed in pepper and salt tweeds.

His hair was cut very close, except where a lovelock plastered down with jasmine oil

trialed over his forehead from under his hard black hat.

Whenever he completed the circuit of the churchyard he peered towards the gate

though which must come

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