S02E59 Harry by Rosemary Timperley

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast

Tony Walker

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.9 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Harry by Rosemary TimperleyThank you to Steve Cuff for suggesting I read this story. Rosemary Timperley was born in 1920 in North London and died in November 1988. Her father was an architect and her mother a teacher. Timperley went to her local girls school and became a teacher herself. She taught English and History in a state school. Her pupils said she was a very dramatic figure (she ran the drama club) and wore long swirling black dresses with long drop or hoop earrings. While she was a teacher she began to submit her stories to magazine and they began to be accepted. She became a staff writer and agony aunt on the magazine Reveille. She lived in Richmond, Surrey (a well-heeled suburb of London now) for many years. Many of her stories are set in London.During the Second World War she worked at the Citizens’ Advice Bureau in Kensington, London. She got married to a. Physics teacher in 1952 and they lived in Essex just outside London. They separated in the early 1960s according to some sources, but they appear to have been officially married until his death in 1968.In 1961 she mentions she is living in an old-fashioned flat and living on coffee, pink-gin and cigarettes. In 1964 she became seriously ill and had a long spell in hospital. I’m not surprised hearing about her diet. She was very prolific and was the author of 66 novels as well as radio plays and short stories. She was also editor of the 5th to the 9th Ghost Books. Harry has been filmed several times. She described herself as a recluseIf You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In HereYou could buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker)Become a Patronhttps://www.patreon.com/barcud (https://www.patreon.com/barcud)And you can join my mailing list and get a free audiobook: https://bit.ly/dalstonvampire (https://bit.ly/dalstonvampire)Music By The Heartwood Institutehttps://bit.ly/somecomeback (https://bit.ly/somecomeback)Support 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 they?
0:10.5	Everybody come back.
0:12.5	Isn't that so?
0:14.4	You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?
0:17.4	How do the dead comeback, mother?
0:20.0	What's the secret of dead come?
0:21.5	Harry by Rosemary Timperley.
0:25.0	Such ordinary things make me afraid.
0:28.0	Sunshine.
0:29.3	Sharp shadows on grass.
0:31.4	White roses, children with red hair.
0:34.7	And the name Harry.
0:36.9	Such an ordinary name. The first time Christine mentioned the name,
0:41.4	I felt a premonition of fear. She was five years old due to start school in three months' time.
0:48.8	It was a hot, beautiful day, and she was playing alone in the garden, as she often did.
0:57.9	I saw her lying on her stomach in the grass,
1:05.1	picking daisies and making daisy chains with laborious pleasure. The sun burned on her pale red hair and made her skin look very white. Her big blue eyes were wide with concentration. Suddenly, she looked towards the bush of
1:14.2	white roses, which cast its shadow over the grass and smiled. Yes, I'm Christine, she said.
1:21.3	She rose and walked slowly towards the bush, a little plump legs defenseless and endearing
1:27.1	beneath the two short blue cotton skirt.
1:29.9	She was growing fast.
1:31.8	"'With my mummy and daddy,' she said clearly.
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