The Voice In The Night by William Hope Hodgson

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This episode features an audiobook reading of William Hope Hodgson's classic horror story, "The Voice in the Night." The story is set on a small sailing vessel in the North Pacific Ocean and centers around a mysterious voice calling out from the darkness. The audiobook reading is filled with suspense and tension, as the characters encounter strange and unsettling occurrences on a deserted island. Listeners will be transported to a world of terror and horror as they follow the story to its chilling conclusion. #TheVoiceInTheNight, #horrorstory, #audiobook, and #WilliamHopeHodgson. New Patreon Request Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREE Support the showVisit us here: www.ghostpod.orgBuy me a coffee if you're glad I do this: https://ko-fi.com/tonywalkerIf you really want to help me, become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barcudMusic by The Heartwood Institute: https://bit.ly/somecomeback Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Voice in a Night
0:08.0	Everybody dies, don't they?
0:10.0	Everybody come back.
0:12.0	Isn't that so?
0:14.0	You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?
0:17.0	How do the dead come back?
0:19.0	The Voice in a Night by William Hope Hudson.
0:24.3	It was a dark, stiless night.
0:26.7	We were be calmed in the northern Pacific.
0:29.2	Our exact position, I do not know, for the sun had been hidden during the course of a weary, breathless week by a thin haze,
0:37.1	which had seemed to float above us, about the height
0:39.6	of our mast-heads, at while as descending and shrouding the surrounding sea.
0:45.2	With there being no wind, we had steadied the tiller, and I was the only man on deck.
0:50.4	The crew, consisting of two men and a boy, were sleeping forward in their den, while Will, my friend and the master of our little craft, was aft in his bunk on the port side of the little cabin.
1:03.5	Suddenly, from out of the surrounding darkness, there came a hail.
1:07.7	Scooner ahoi!
1:09.6	The cry was so unexpected that I gave no immediate answer because of my surprise.
1:15.3	It came again. A voice curiously throaty and inhuman, calling from somewhere upon the dark sea away on our
1:24.4	port broadside. Schoter O'oy!
1:30.6	Hello? I sung out, having gathered my wits somewhere.
1:33.0	What are you? What do you want?
1:38.6	You need not be afraid, answered the queer voice, having probably noticed some trace of confusion in my tone. I am only an old man.
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