Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.

Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity,

and it has gripped millions of people throughout the ages. I am one of those people. My name is

Halley, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast. Hello listeners.

Like last year and the years before, the Morbid Curiosity Podcasts likes to celebrate Halloween

with a horror story.

This story will be available totally free until the 1st of December.

After that, it becomes exclusive to patrons from the $1 level and up. Without further ado,

the Morbid Curiosity Podcast presents The Corpse Light, written by Dick Donovan, also known as J.E. Preston

Muddock, originally published in 1890. Enjoy, and happy Halloween. My name is John Patmore-Lindsay. By profession, I'm a medical man,

and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and a member of the Royal College of Physicians,

I'm also the author of numerous medical works, the best known perhaps being how to keep in good

health and live long. I was educated at one of the large public schools and took my degree at Oxford.

I have generally been regarded as a hard-headed man and skeptical about all phenomena that were

not capable of being explained by rational and known laws. Mysticism, occultism, spiritualism,

and the like only served to excite my ridicule, and I entertained anything but a flattering

opinion of those people who professed belief in such things. I was pleased to think it argued

weakness of mind. I have referred to the few foregoing facts about myself, because I wish to make it clear

that I do not belong to that class of nervous and excitable people who fall prey to their own fancies,

conjure up shapes and scenes out of their imaginings, and then vow and declare that they have been

confronted with stern realities. What I am about to relate is so marvelous, so weird and startling,

that I am fain to begin my story in a half-apologetic way, and even now, as I dwell upon it all,

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