Set your radios to Spooky, then crack the dial all the way past that into full on blood-soaked screaming horror.

Welcome to Suitapod. Pseudepod episode 702 May 8th 2020. This week's story at the farmhouse by

E.F. Benson. Hey everyone welcome welcome to Sudapod, the weekly horror podcast.

I'm Alistair, your host, and this week's story comes to us from E.F. Benson,

and was first published in Hutchinson's magazine in March of 1923.

E.F has actually been here before,

with the Landmark episode 300.

Benson was also known as a writer of ghost stories,

which were often first published in story magazines such as Pearson's or

Hutchinson's 20 of which were illustrated by Edmund Blampeed. These spook stories as

they were also termed were then reprinted in collections by his principal publisher Walter Hutchinson.

His 1906 short story, The Bus Conductor,

a fatal crash premonition tale about a person haunted by a Hurst Driver has been adapted several times.

Notably during 1944 for the movie Dead of Night and as an anecdote in Bennett Curf's

Ghost Stories anthology published the same same year and for a 1961 episode of the Twilight Zone.

The catchphrase from the story, room for one more, created a legend and also occurs in the

1986 Oingo Boingo song Dead Man's Party.

Our narrator this week is the ever fantastic Matt Dovey.

Matt has narrated for, I believe all of our podcasts at this point and is also a fantastically talented writer who has definitely been published by all four shows.

We massively appreciate his critical graphics work and I'm saying that not just as the co-owner of escape

artists but as the owner of the full lid the pop culture newsletter where he and

Natalie Natska have done some extraordinarily great artwork for me

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