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Sudapod, episode 814, June 10th, 2022. This week's story, The Green Scarf, by AM Barrage.

Hello everyone, welcome to Sudapod, the weekly horror podcast. Annalyster, your host,

audio production for us this week is done by Fantastic Chelsea, and Mark Burrows is your reader.

The story comes to us from AM Barrage. Alfred McClelland Burrage, born 1889, died in 1956,

was noted in his time as an author of fiction for boys, which he published under the pseudonym

Frank Lelland. This included a popular series called Tufty. I've actually heard of them.

They have inherited some books of Tufty because nothing in this country ever really dies,

it just goes to secondhand bookshops. After his death, however, Barrage became known best

for his ghost stories. Barrage's main markets for his fiction were British pop magazines,

such as The Grand The Novel, Cassel's, and The Weekly Tale Teller, which must surely be over

due a Kickstarter revival around now. He served in the artist's rifles in the First World War

and published a memoir of his war experiences, War Is War, as X Private X. Barrage is now

remembered mainly for his horror fiction, some of which was originally collected in the books,

some ghost stories in 1927, and he magnificently titled Someone in the Room in 1931.

This was, again, often under his X Private X name. His work generally sits on the spectrum

somewhere between the ghost stories of MR James and H.R. Wakefield, neither as Staffoli Antiquarium

as the former, which I think is perhaps a touch on fair. James did have a style, and it was a touch

stuffy. All right, it's not that unfair, nor as sensationalistic as the latter. He died at Edge

where General Hospital at the age of 67 on 18th December 1956. And this story, which I had not

encountered prior to this particular episode, is one of his best. Your narrator is Mark Burrows.

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