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Tales to Terrify

Tales to Terrify 704 F. Marion Crawford

Tales to Terrify

Drew Sebesteny

Horror Fiction, Flash Fiction, Suspense, Creepy, Drama, Dark Tales, Horror Stories, Arts, Fiction, Horror, Creepy Pasta, Books, Scary Stories, Short Fiction, Short Stories, Creepy Stories, Terror

4.5703 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to episode 704. We have a classic tale for you this week, about an ancient tower, a mysterious grave, and the two men who stumble across its nightly inhabitant.


COMING UP

Good Evening: 00:01:06

F. Marion Crawford’s For the Blood is the Life as read by Charles Conover: 00:02:49


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SPECIAL THANKS TO

Amanda Carrillo

Lestle Baxter

Orion D. Hegre

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1:21.4

Thank you. From the blackest corners of your mind, they call, pulling you deep into shadow, twisting your senses, keeping you from sleep.

1:28.7

It's time to face your darkest fears.

1:36.3

This is Tales to Terrify. This is Tales to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night, and welcome.

1:57.6

We have one longer tale for you tonight, a classic, which comes to us from F. Marion Crawford.

2:06.3

Francis Marion Crawford was born in 1854 in Italy to American parents steeped in literary legacy.

2:14.8

Though best known for his historical romances, Crawford loved a good chilling tale, too.

2:21.3

Crawford believed the best ghost stories were ones that chilled without blood or spectacle,

2:26.9

the touch of the unseen, as he called it. For Crawford, the terror was never in the scream,

2:33.7

but in the silence that came before.

2:38.1

Children of the Night, join me, for F. Marion Crawford's, for the Blood is the Life,

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