S02E53 Laura Silver Bell by J Sheridan Le Fanu

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast

Tony Walker

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.9 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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A dark fairytale set in the wild moors of the North of England. A foolish girl falls in love with a tall, dark handsome stranger who stepped out of the woods these days. He says he's a fine lord, and she sees his golden sash and his silver sword and his black velvet jacket. An old wise woman warns her not to take a gift from him, nor eat a morsel of his food, nor yet cross running water to stand beside him. But will she listen?Get a great discount on my Horror Stories For Halloween audiobook & ebook bundlehttps://spirit.ghostpod.org/horror-stories-for-halloween#audiobook #horrorpodcast #shortstories #literature***Merchandise https://my-store-5618003.creator-spring.com (https://my-store-5618003.creator-spring.com)Get my audiobooks at an insane deal. London Horror Stories https://mailchi.mp/tonywalker/london-horror-storiesBuy me a coffee to show appreciation: https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker )You can get a free ebook and audiobook:https://bit.ly/dalstonvampire (https://bit.ly/dalstonvampire)Listen to audio only versions of my podcast:https://bit.ly/vurbl (https://bit.ly/vurbl)It is all greatly appreciated.#classicghoststories #classicstories #horrorpodcastSupport the showVisit us here: www.ghostpod.orgBuy me a coffee if you're glad I do this: https://ko-fi.com/tonywalkerIf you really want to help me, become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barcudMusic by The Heartwood Institute: https://bit.ly/somecomeback Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everybody dies, don't think?
0:10.0	Everybody come back.
0:12.0	Isn't that so?
0:14.0	You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?
0:17.0	How do the dead come back, mother?
0:20.0	What's the secrets of the... So this story we're going to read tonight is from the Daminable Tales collection, which I'm still reading.
0:28.5	And it's this one here, Laura Silverbell.
0:33.1	In the five Northumbrian counties, you will scarcely find so bleak, ugly, and yet in a savage way,
0:40.9	so picturesque a moor as Dardale Moss.
0:44.3	The moor itself spreads north, south, east and west, a great undulating sea of black peat and heath.
0:52.3	What we may term its shores are wooded wildly with birch,
0:56.0	hazel and dwarf oak. No towering mountains surrounded, but here and there you have a rocky
1:02.4	knoll rising among the trees and many are wooded promontory of the same pretty because utterly wild
1:08.5	forest running out into its dark level.
1:11.6	Habitations are thinly scattered in this barren territory, and a full mile away from the meanest was the stone cottage of Mother Kark.
1:21.6	Let not my Southern reader who associates ideas of comfort with the term cottage mistake. This thing
1:29.3	is built of shingle with low walls. Its thatch is hollow, the peat smoke curls stingingly from
1:35.4	its stunted chimney. It is worthy of its savage surroundings. The primitive neighbours remark
1:42.3	that no rowan tree grows near, nor holly, nor bracken, and no horseshoe is nailed on the door.
1:49.0	Not far from the birches and hazels that straddle about the rude wall of the little enclosure, on the contrary they say,
1:56.0	you may discover the broom and the ragwort in which witches mysteriously delight. But this is perhaps a
2:04.0	scandal. Mal Kark was for many a year the sage farm of this wild domain. She has renounced
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