The Doll's Ghost by F. Marion Crawford

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast

Tony Walker

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.9 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

A dollmaker works late into the evening to repair a broken doll. Outside, London's fog presses against the windows. Inside, in the dim workshop light, something moves among the shelves—something that shouldn't move at all. "The Doll's Ghost" first appeared in The Undesired Princess collection (1897), later included in Wandering Ghosts (1911). F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909): American novelist resident in Italy, author of historical romances and supernatural tales praised by M.R. James for their atmospheric restraint. Christmas Presents! Buy my Christmas Ghost Stories as a paperback as a present for some who likes Christmas ghost stories, or who might be persuaded. https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=MxXXCglWV2Uu4L9ArK8eIz8rexI8huhrBketkRcyMfh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everybody dies, don't they?
0:09.3	Everybody come back, isn't that so?
0:13.6	You tried to get into the long draw today, didn't you?
0:17.8	How do that they'd come back with you?
0:19.8	What's the cycle?
0:20.8	Hi, I'm Tony Walker and I'm the narrator of the class How do the dead come back? What's the secret?
0:20.8	Hi, I'm Tony Walker and I'm the narrator of the classic ghost stories podcast.
0:25.9	I'm going to narrate you a ghost story.
0:27.9	The purpose of this video introduction is just to prove to YouTube that I am real.
0:35.4	And this is actually from the VanCourt book of Christmas Ghost Stories
0:38.0	Volume 1. I've got the three volumes. I would advise you to go and get them. Why not? And then
0:43.3	you can read along and see if I make any mistakes. Spoiler, I do. I'm going to fade away now.
0:48.0	I may come back later, but I'll fade away now so you can get on with what you want to do.
0:53.8	And hopefully listen at the same time.
0:56.3	Or fall asleep or honestly, whatever you want to do, it's cool by me.
1:00.8	The Doll's Ghost by F. Marion Crawford.
1:05.0	It was a terrible accident and for one moment the splendid machinery of Cranston House
1:10.3	got out of gear and stood still.
1:12.9	The butler emerged from the retirement in which he spent his elegant leisure.
1:17.3	Two grooms of the chambers appeared simultaneously from opposite directions.
1:22.0	There were actually housemaids on the grand staircase,
1:25.0	and those who remember the facts most exactly, assert
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