The Confession of Charles Linkworth by E F Benson

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast

Tony Walker

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.9 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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A man waits in silence. The law has spoken, the doctors have done their work. But something does not rest. In the quiet rooms and corridors of the prison, a sound is heard—faint, deliberate, and not easily explained. What follows is noted calmly, professionally. Still, it leaves a mark. *The Confession of Charles Linkworth* was first published in 1912 in *The Room in the Tower and Other Stories* by Mills & Boon, London. E. F. Benson was a British author best known for his *Mapp and Lucia* novels and his ghost stories. He came from a clerical family deeply involved in both religion and early psychical research. ⭐ Join my Patreon ⭐ https://patreon.com/barcud Go here for a library of ad-free stories, a monthly members only story and early access to the regular stories I put out. You can choose to have ghost stories only, or detective stories or classic literature, or all of them for either $5 or $10 a month. Many hundreds of hours of stories. Who needs Audible? Or, if you'd just like to make a one-off gesture of thanks for my work https://buymeacoffee.com/10mn8sk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.3	The Confession of Charles Linkworth by E. F. Benson.
0:56.0	Dr. Teesdale had occasion to attend the condemned man once or twice during the week before
1:02.0	his execution, and found him as is often the case when his last hope of life has vanished,
1:08.0	quiet and perfectly resigned to his fate, and not seeming to look
1:12.5	forward with any dread to the morning that each hour that passed brought nearer and nearer.
1:18.5	The bitterness of death appeared to be over for him.
1:21.6	It was done with when he was told that his appeal was refused.
1:25.8	But for those days, while Hope was not yet quite abandoned,
1:29.2	the wretched man had drunk of death daily. In all his experience, the doctor had never seen a man
1:35.6	so wildly and passionately tenacious of life, nor one so strongly knit to this material world
1:43.4	by the sheer animal lust of living.
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