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As always, the chat at the end made me think. It wasn’t my favorite story from a ghost story perspective, but I did enjoy it from just a story perspective. I’m kind of inclined to think there is objectively good or bad literature but that personal taste will always trump that!

That you. That was lovely. Blackwood's style is very meditative.. The words wash over you, and you still retain the meaning as you're carried along.

I just spent an hour searching for this before the name popped into my mind! A really good one.

Cheers on another well done story!

What a great story! Guy straddles the line between whimsical and disturbing very well, I think. For my money, it's a witch and a leprechaun or some such, who just happen to have a penchant for old and beautiful things... but like you, I prefer the supernatural. :)

Thank You for creating & sharing this!

Thank you! A wonderful story. It's the perfect companion piece to Playmates.

True love IS the greatest thing in the world. Except, of course, for a nice MLT. Mutton lettuce tomato sandwich? When the mutton is nice and lean??

I felt s dash of "Rebecca" while listening. I suppose it was the way the younger wife felt the first wife would take back the husband. The futile feeling of fighting a ghost. There was also the aspect of the second wife treating Max in a more maternal manner. She was hyperfixated on his happiness. In both stories, the second wives desperately wanted to keep the happy lives they had built with their husbands and for dead wife #1 to exit stage right!

Don't know why but the "Morning Milk " bit really grated on my nerves .

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I really enjoy stories like this. With telephones. There’s something so invasive and wonderfully macabre about hearing a disembodied voice or presence that gives me chills and I love that! There is a story on the UA-cam Channel “Miss Worm” and she wrote a story about a telephone and it’s so interesting.

Tony, you're a delight, but you absolutely can be a feminist and a man simultaneously. I think you have a mistaken idea of the definition of the word. Or at least, I hope you do.

Stop listening to the "social justice police". Your stories are fantastic and well read. Especially your own stories. They are the best of all. We are listening and we LOVE you! ❤👍👻

This anecdote would be awesome as part of a novel. As a story it could go in so many different directions from comedic to tragic, wired, horrific, evil etc. Especially because of the hissing speech. They way you simulated that hissing speech frightened me and it's 10:04 am where I am! Please do an audio book based and include it. Also, I laughed heartily at you saying "we gave him some valium and he was fine" so thanks for that. It made me forget my fright.

"Choose the least worst." American politics in four words. 😂 This was a good story. Fantastic commentary. I am happily within your web - Learning so much with each broadcast. My wish list of authors and books gets longer with every listen. Thank you!🎉

I always enjoy your comments and the fact that you pre-associate as you give your comment seems to add something. in this case however your comments for your associate so wildly and strangely I think you may be experimenting with a different state of consciousness as you gave these comments. something very strange about you saying that you don't believe feelings do anything but harm and don't belong in a story and the underlying support for the meaning of Love is something we should learn from The Princess Bride . nonetheless I was fascinated to hear your comments even though they seem to be coming from a strangely more disorganized dimension

Come for the storytelling- the short, the biographical, & the [personal experienced] anecdote(s). 📞Telephones do have a place in creepy town! ☎️ Thank you. 📮📬🪭

If you're thinking of revisiting Jane Austen, Tony, I think you'd be most likely to enjoy Northanger Abbey. It's shorter and more tightly paced compared to Austen's later novels, and it spoofs the gothic novels that were popular (and controversial) in those days. Also, if it makes you feel better, I tend to have trouble getting through Emma too, and I consider myself an Austen fan! I don't know what it is about that particular book--the overall plot and characters are wonderfully zany, and I especially like the male lead (the only sane person in the whole tale, bless his heart) and his interactions with Emma, but somehow I always lose steam around the middle of the story. Maybe there's a slow/dull/unnecessary passage at that point that would have been better left on the cutting room floor🤷‍♀. Or I simply need a break from Emma's, er, "strong personality"😅.

*Tony* your posh accent made me laugh🤩🕸it is a world wide web

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thanks *Tony*

This really reminds me of, The Pomegranate Seed. Very similar type stories.👻

I wasn't really enthralled by the story, but I enjoyed your comments after it, Tony. I am interested in your stories about your career as a psychiatric nurse, and your anecdote about the real patient who made the creepy phone call was very chilling. I'm going to listen to 'The Pomegranate Seed' now. ♥️

You’re so right about GoodReads. I stopped using it because of the negativity.

"Aristotle is this Greek dude, ... way back." Love it! --- just got to "a dog would cement it". Absolutely. Commentaries by Tony always chatty and great. ... but men can be feminist or at least pro-feminist, as they can also be anti. .. Hah! Now I got to the Valium! Always listen 'till the end.

Wonderful rambling on criteria of estimating literature. I also believe there are some objective ones. Worthwile to research them in this downgrading, emoticon, reactive age.

Of course you can be a feminist you duffer! It just means believing that me and women have equal rights. You can meet that entry level feminism, only a drop kick doesn't.

Tony, ghosts and phones- watch ‘night call’, an episode of The Twilight Zone (original series), it’s great 😀

Terrific story and wonderfully narrated as usual!

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A story of letting go, of moving on perhaps. I is so tempting and irrational to want to call that old number, even though you know that they're gone, in hopes that yet the spirit may linger still... Thanks for the talk and sharing your experience with the poor woman who spoke "parcel tongue". Very creepy. That's great copy for underground and Bunny Men. Thanks Tony.

A long time ago when I was more black and white about things, I would have thought this wasn’t such a good ending and I would have just read into it that they weren’t so pure, and I would just believe that she was an unreliable narrator. I WAS COMPARING IT TO THE POMEGRANATE SEED, TOO! (Sorry, I always start to comment before I finish listening.) I forgot the end of the pomegranate seed so I’m going to go listen to that one again. Anyway though, I do really like this one though, and I liked the ending as well.

I really enjoyed this one. Tony (or anyone else who reads this), do you happen to recall the title or author of a short story that goes like this: A young woman marries a wealthy widower (or perhaps is engaged to him, I don't recall exactly). They go to his estate in the countryside for the first time. He begins to show her around. There, she finds a portrait of his deceased first wife. Something about this (the portrait itself, the husband's reaction to seeing it) makes her realize that his deceased wife was the love of his life, that he never got over her loss, and that she is an interloper in their world. That's it. Nothing supernatural that I can recall. I would love to be able to find the story again.

I liked this story! Goodreads tends towards pretentious pseudo-intellectual nonsense by people who are very pleased with their “work” of writing reviews. 😂

Oh I really really loved this one!! I don't think anyone could have done this better. I felt like I was actually part of the story.

Once again, a wonderful reading of a fascinating story. My personal taste requires developed characters, appealing settings, and a well thought out plot. The Telephone certainly delivered. It has that bit of raw, messy reality to it that inspires a combination of harsh judgment and sympathy. It's much simpler when the spurned wife is wicked. It's sad she was a good woman. I'm a bit creeped out by the anecdote at the end. I can fall asleep with ghost stories ringing in my head, but living people are frightening. Also, I have always defined "feminist" as one who believes women should have equal rights and opportunities as their male counterparts. So yeah, you could be one. Thanks again, off to find The Pomegranate Seed.

Whoop whoop! Thank you Tony for giving a day that was just pure sh-t from the minute my feet hit the floor a great finish!

Tony’s Ghost story podcast for the win. Classic Ghost stories is Awesome also

Love your channel, your voice, and your commentary.

I think that what makes great writers great is that they can manage to break the molds.Jane Austen is a good example, as is Somerset Maugham.Character is hard to do well, but then so is atmoshere without becoming rapidly tedious. Evelyn Waugh? I'm not sure if I would have survived High School without Waugh, and he can lay out character and atmosphere as one.

Came for the story... Mind Blown by the anecdote! Wow. ❤

Always delighted to see you in my feed. Thanks Tony 👻

Fantastic Story ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perfect Narration ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐❤️

Another excellent reading, Tony. Just one smart-arse comment on a passing comment: one can be a feminist and not be female. : ) "feminist: an advocate of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes; a person who supports feminism." I think a lot of guys are feminists without realizing or identifying with it.

Thank you sir 😊❤

Loved the story and the critique..I love the anecdotes and the hairs on the back of my neck were raised when you described the lady making those phone calls