The Catacomb by Peter Shilston

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The Catacomb by Peter Shilston was recommended by one of my Patreons but it was hard to get hold of. It was published in the early 1980s in a fanzine for lovers of M R James's stories who wrote stories in a similar vein. This home-produced magazine was called More Ghosts and Scholars and is very hard to get hold of. Then it was reprinted in Best of Ghosts and Scholars and Best Horror Volume 9 edited by Karl Wagner. These are collectors items and expensive so I despaired of getting hold of the story but wanted to because it was so highly recommended. Eventually I bit the bullet and shelled out (see what I did there?) for More Ghosts & Scholars on Ebay. It arrived. I read it. I hope you like it. It is followed by my thoughts about the story which in now typical fashion degenerates into random related thoughts.I hope you enjoy my rendition. You could consider supporting my efforts by buying me a coffee one off or signing up as a Patreon. This latter includes members only readings and early access to regular podcast episodes.If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In HereYou can become a Patreon of the show for exclusive members’ only stories:https://www.patreon.com/barcud (https://www.patreon.com/barcud)And if you want to thank me (think of a busker’s hat) then you can get me a coffee via http://www.ko-fi.com/tonywalker (www.ko-fi.com/tonywalker)Join my mailing list and get a download: 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, isn't that same?
0:14.4	You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?
0:17.1	How do the dead comeback, mother?
0:19.9	What's the secrets of dead comeback?
0:21.8	The Catacomb by Peter Shilston.
0:26.0	I'm retelling this story as it was retold to me.
0:29.8	Imagine, if you can, a coach making a tour of the island of Sicily in the middle of August,
0:35.7	carrying a couple of dozen English package holiday makers on the
0:39.0	usual lightning inspection of places of interest. Palermo in two days. Agrigento in another two.
0:47.2	Saracuse meriting only one, a trip by chairlift up Mount Etna and then home. The sort of people one finds on such tours are invariably the same.
0:58.7	A number of schoolteachers, earnest retired couples,
1:02.4	parents who have inappropriately brought children
1:05.1	and are beginning to wonder why they didn't save themselves trouble
1:08.2	by going to the beach instead,
1:10.3	and a handful of single unattached people.
1:13.7	Furthermore, their behaviour is always the same.
1:16.9	Some spent all their time grumbling at the quality of the hotels and food.
1:21.2	The young men wonder why there are no available attractive young ladies on the tour,
1:25.9	the children get bored,
1:27.2	and the schoolteachers carry
1:29.1	guidebooks and maps around everywhere, and take enormous numbers of photographs.
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