The Whistling Room by William Hope Hodgson

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In Ireland, a newly purchased castle unsettles its American owner. He is wealthy, engaged to a local woman, and certain that jealous countrymen mean him harm. What truly threatens the household is a particular room that fills at night with a dangerous, sustained whistling that rises and falls like breath. Doors quiver; servants keep away. Carnacki is summoned with his lamps, his electric scepticism and his knowledge of spirit manifestations. He investigates, seals the room, warns no one to enter and admits himself stumped. At least at first! “The Whistling Room” was first published in 1910 and later collected in Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder (1913).UK publisher: Eveleigh Nash. William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) was an English writer of sea horrors and visionary weird fiction.A former merchant sailor, he served in the First World War and was killed near Ypres. 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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0:00.0	Everybody dies, don't they?
0:10.4	Isn't that same?
0:14.4	You tried to get into the long draw today, didn't you?
0:17.7	How do that they'd come back with it?
0:19.9	What's the same?
0:20.8	Hello, my name's Tony Walker Walker and welcome to another episode of the classic ghost stories
0:26.3	podcast.
0:28.1	This week I'm going to be reading you a story from this book.
0:31.2	This is going to be a story this week from Alfred Hitchcock presents stories for late
0:35.5	at night and I'm sure that Alfred Hitchcock never actually read any of these stories or he may have done but it's completely incidental and his name is being used for a marketing reason.
0:45.3	Anyway this story I'm going to read this week is the Whistling Room by William Hope Hodson and it's a Karnaki the ghost hunter story.
0:53.3	I've never read any of
0:54.8	Karnaki stories before yet I've read detective stories and I've read ghost
0:59.4	stories and I've been asked to do Karnaki but I've never done it so here goes
1:07.8	the whistling room by William Hope Hudson Karnaki shook a friendly fist at me as I entered,
1:15.6	late. Then he opened the door into the dining room and ushered the four of us, Jessup, Arkwright,
1:21.6	Taylor and myself, into dinner. We dined well, but as usual, and equally as usual, Karnaki was pretty silent during the meal.
1:30.7	At the end, we took our wine and cigars to our accustomed positions, and Karnaki, having got
1:35.9	himself comfortable in his big chair, began without any preliminary. I've just got back from
1:42.5	Ireland again, he said, and I thought you chaps would be
1:45.0	interested to hear my news. Besides, I fancy I shall see the thing clear after I've told it all
1:51.3	out straight. I must tell you this, though, at the beginning, up to the present moment, I've
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