The Monolith by Tony Walker

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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A narrowboat moors in Eastwick, a village cut off by time and road. Among its postcards and memories stands an ancient stone — and in every image, a shadow that should not be there. When George Middleton takes his own photograph, the shadow moves closer. This is one of my own stories — and this time, I’m out to scare you. Let’s see if I manage to. Here is my ebook and audiobook store payhip.com/TheClassicGhostStoriesPodcast For 33% discount - use coupon 33OFFGHOSTPOD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.0	George Middleton came into Eastwick by water towards noon,
1:08.0	with the sun high and the canal running still between its overgrown banks.
1:12.6	All the way down he'd worked the locks alone, without much to report, though the upper
1:17.4	padlet once had stuck and left him standing on the stone edge, windless in hand, watching rooks
1:23.1	wander around the nearby field seeking insects.
1:26.7	As he stood there, a woman from a higher boat had
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