The Witch Door by Ray Bradbury

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Ray Bradbury wrote "The Witch Door" in 1995.The main characters live in a dilapidated New England farmhouse. They've come to escape from the totalitarian Government and collapsing cities. One night, one night, they hear a hammering on the Witch Door in their house.The witch door dates back to 1680 when people used it to hide witches from the Salme Witch Trials.The noises grow louder and a woman bursts out of the tiny room behind the door and woman dashes out into the night. Set in the future, The Witch Door is that mixes science fiction and dystopian futures with a witch thrown in to make the point.A woman friend of theirs who is on the run from the Government, arrives and asks the to hide her.They put her in the room beyond the Witch Door.#fullaudiobook #books #bradbury #raybradbury #audiobook 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 Witch Door
0:02.0	You're trying to get into the locked, doesn't you?
0:17.0	How do the dead come back, mother?
0:20.0	What's the secret? The Witch Door by Ray Bradbury.
0:24.4	It was a pounding on a door, a furious, frantic, insistent pounding,
0:30.8	bound of hysteria and fear, and a great desire to be heard, to be freed, to be let loose, to escape.
0:41.4	It was a wrenching at hidden panelling.
0:44.5	It was a hollow knocking, a wrapping, a testing, a clawing.
0:49.1	It was a scratching at hollow boards, a ripping at bedded nails.
0:54.2	It was a muffled closet shouting and demanding far away.
0:59.5	And a call to be noticed.
1:03.5	Followed by a silence.
1:07.0	The silence was the most empty and terrible of all.
1:10.5	Robert and Martha Webb sat up in bed.
1:13.6	Did you hear it? Yes, again. Downstairs. Now, whoever it was who had pounded and wrapped and made his fingers roar, drawn blood with his fever and quest to be free, had drawn into silence, listening
1:30.7	himself to see if his terror and drumming had summoned any help.
1:36.4	The winter night lay through the house with the falling snow silence, silence snowing
1:41.8	into every room, drifting over tables and floors and banking up the stairwell.
1:48.6	Then the pounding started again and then.
1:52.1	A sound of soft crying.
1:54.8	Downstairs.
1:56.7	Someone in the house.
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