The Midnight Reading: Two (True) Ghost Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

Fireside Mystery Theatre

Drama, Arts, Fiction, Performing Arts

4.5 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Two startling pieces of supernatural non-fiction by Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Ghost of The Moat" & "A London Ghost."

The Midnight Reading is a special summer series of dramatic readings of lost classics from the world of macabre fiction that have inspired our show, Fireside Mystery Theatre. We hope to encourage you, dear listeners, to embrace the joy of books and to build your own collection of dark literature.

Hosted by Ali Silva

"The Ghost of The Moat" & "A London Ghost" by Arthur Conan Doyle — read and performed by James Rieser

Created and produced by Gustavo Rodriguez & Ali Silva for Fireside Mystery Productions.

Directed by Holly Payne-Strange

Written by Silbin Sandovar

Theme music by Martina DaSilva

Audio engineered by Bill & Delaney Hafener

Recorded at The Silo Studio in Shirley, NY

Additional music:

"Violin Sonata in Dm, T.So 26" by Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, performed by Michel Rodeau

"Danse Sacrée et Danse Profane" by Claude Debussy, performed by United States Marine Band

Traditional hymn: "Lead, Kindly Light" by John Henry Newman

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0:00.0	In the dark of night, one light still yet burns, frightened fingers tremble as brittle pages turn.
0:15.0	Fireside Mystery Theatre presents The Midnight Reading, a special summer series of dramatic recitations of dark masterpieces in miniature by the Masters of the Macab.
0:28.5	Hello, I'm Ali Silva.
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1:32.5	In the short story, The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire, first published by the Strand magazine in 1924,
1:39.7	Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous creation, the detective Sherlock Holmes, makes a very brief mention in
1:46.5	passing about the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared.
1:54.0	Never again in this story or in any of the handful of Holmes stories that followed, would Doyle ever
2:00.0	expound upon this odd reference?
2:02.4	In fact, this cryptic utterance seems fascinatingly out of place in Holmes's world of
2:08.1	cold calculation engendered by deductive reasoning. But perhaps not so out of place in the
2:14.7	world of his creator. For Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a fervent believer
2:19.7	in spiritualism and was not afraid to use the powerful platform of his fame and reputation
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