This episode was found wandering the halls of BBC Broadcasting House late at night.

All it would say is,

appointment with fear, my friends.

Appointment with fear.

Listen to it.

Soodapod Episode 848 for January 13th, 2023.

Brown Dean Farm by A.M. Burridge.

Hey there, I'm Scott Campbell, Assistant Editor and your host for this week.

So another year of unmitigated horror in the books.

And another year of Soodapod.

Sorry, I had to get that joke in there.

We are looking forward to presenting this year's bumper crop of horror stories for you.

Especially appropriate, since tonight's story is Brown Dean Farm, which originally appeared in

1927 collection, some ghost stories.

Alfred McKellen Burridge, 1889 to 1986, was noted in his time as an author of fiction for boys,

which he published under pseudonym, Frank McKellen, including a popular series called Tuffy.

After his death, however, Burridge became best known for his ghost stories.

After his father died in 1906, A.M. Burridge began writing fiction, partly to support his family.

Burridge's main market for his fiction were British pulp magazines such as The Grand Magazine,

The Novel Magazine, Cassel's Magazine, and The Weekly Tail Teller.

He served in the artist's rifles in the First World War and published a memoir of his

war experiences, war is war, as ex-private ex.

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