The following story is true. The names have been changed at the request of the survivors.

After all, this is a horrifying podcast.

Sudapod episode 793 for January 14, 2022. And no bird sings by E.F. Benson.

Hey there, I'm Scott Campbell, Associate Editor, Web Wrangler, and your guest host for

this rather gay episode of our 1926 public domain showcase. I can hear you all screaming,

begging, and pleading. Where's Alistair? We need Alistair. We want our hostess with the most

first of. Haven't Kat and I entertained you? Huh, rude. Second, Al will be back next week.

Third, if you just can't wait, you can hear his dulcetones on the secret of St. Kilda podcast.

Go check it out. With that out the way, we present and no bird sings by E.F. Benson,

which was first published in the magazine Woman in December 1926.

We have previously published E.F. Benson on Sudapod episode 702 at the Farmhouse and episode 300

this day. Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric and at times humorous or satirical

ghost stories, which were often first published in story magazines such as Pearson's magazine

or Hodges's magazine, 20 of which were illustrated by Edmund Blampied. These spook stories, as they

were also termed, were then reprinted in collections by their principal publisher Walter Hodgeson.

Benson's 1906 story The Bus Conductor, a feeble crash per munition tale about a person

haunted by a herstriber, has been adapted several times. Notably during 1944,

but the movie did have night, and as an anecdote in Bennett's self's ghost stories anthology

published the same year, and for a 1961 episode of The Triad Zone. Benson was homosexual,

but was intensely discreet. At Cambridge, she fell in love with several fellow students,

including Vincent York, father of the novelist Henry York, about whom he confided to his diary.

I feel perfectly mad about him just now. If only he knew, and yet I think he does.

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