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S01E20 - "Gabriel Ernest"
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The Red Room
Today Freddie Jones tells The Red Room by H. G. WELLSĂ‚Â ' Looking round, one could well understand the legends that had sprouted in the room's black corners. My candle was a little tongue of flame in its vastness, that left an ocean of mystery and suggestion beyond its island of light ...'
Nov 17, 1980
15 min
The Yellow Cat
Today John Woodvine tells More Spinned Against by JOHN WYNDHAMĂ‚Â ' Lydia entered Edward's spider-room about once a week, partly to tidy and dust it, and partly to enjoy detesting its inhabitants in a pleasantly masochistic fashion.'
Nov 18, 1980
15 min
The Music on the Hill
Today Jonathan Pryce tells The Music on the Hill by SAKI Sylvia Seltoun had achieved her ultimate ambition in marrying Mortimer Seltoun , and settling with him at his manor farm, Yessney. But there was a furtive, sinister ' something' that hung around Yessney ...
Nov 20, 1980
15 min
The Mezzotint
Today Michael Bryant tells The Mezzotint by M. R. JAMESĂ‚Â ' Begging your pardon, sir, but it ain't a picture I should 'ang where my little girl could see it, sir ... if she was to ketch a sight of it she would be in a taking and no mistake.'
Nov 21, 1980
15 min
The Treasure in the Forest
Today Freddie Jones tells The Treasure in the Forest by H. G. WELLSĂ‚Â Hooker shivered as his eye rested on the figure of the dead China-man. ' Let's get out of this place.'
Nov 24, 1980
15 min
The Devil's Ape
Today John Woodvine tells The Devil's Ape by BARNARD STACEYĂ‚Â '... and then something happened. Something we couldn't see, but felt - something that made us afraid with a sweating fear. Some- body - something - came into the room...'
Nov 25, 1980
15 min
Sredni-Vashtar
Today Jonathan Pryce tells Sredni-Vashtar by SAKIĂ‚Â ' Conradin was dreadfully afraid of the lithe, sharp-fanged pole ferret, but it was his most treasured possession. Its very presence in the tool shed was a secret and fearful joy ...'
Nov 27, 1980
15 min
A School Story
Today Michael Bryant tells A School Story by M. R. JAMES'A moment ago, there was a man sitting on the window-sill. He was wet all over - and I'm not at all sure he was alive!'
Nov 28, 1980
15 min
In the Avu Observatory
Today Freddie Jones tells In the Avu Observatory by H. G. WELLSWas the thing, whatever it was, inside or out? Then something flapped almost into his face, and the sense of some strange bird-like creature hovering a few yards from him was indescribably terrifying.
Dec 1, 1980
15 min
The Running Companion
John Woodvine tells The Running Companion by PHILIPPA PEARCEĂ‚Â ' For years now, Mr Adamson 's hatred had been with him, not only when he ran, but all day, and often at night, too. Sometimes in his dreams it seemed to him that his running companion, his hatred, stood just behind him, or at his very elbow.'
Dec 2, 1980
15 min
The Pennance
Today Jonathan Pryce tells The Penance by SAKIĂ‚Â In hunting to death a small tabby cat, Octavian had done a thing of which he scarcely approved himself. But Octavian kept chickens -at least he kept some of them; others vanished, leaving only a few bloodstained feathers to mark their going.
Dec 4, 1980
15 min
The Well
Today Michael Bryant tells The Well by W. W. JACOBSĂ‚Â She dropped a stone down the well, and said ' Fancy being where that is now, clutching at the slimy sides, with water filling your mouth, looking up to the little patch of sky above.'
Dec 5, 1980
15 min
The Stolen Bacillus
Today Freddie Jones tells The Stolen Bacillus by H. G. WELLSĂ‚Â The bacteriologist took up a sealed tube. ' Here is the living thing - bottled cholera.'Ă‚Â ' It is a deadly thing to have in your possession.'
Dec 8, 1980
15 min
Sin of Omission
Today John Woodvine tells A Sin of Omission by R. CHETWYND-HAYES"A flat head rose up, and small, watery-blue eyes glittered with malevolent intent, while jaws opened to their fullest extent, and Mr Faversham was permitted to view a pink-lined cavern that was equipped with two yellow, pointed fangs..."
Dec 9, 1980
15 min
The Diary of Mr Poynter
Today Jonathan Pryce tells Gabriel-Ernest by SakiThe boy laughed, a laugh in which the snarl had nearly driven out the chuckle, and then plunged out of view into a yielding tangle of weed and fern.'What an extraordinary wild animal' thought Van Cheele.
Dec 11, 1980
15 min
The Flowerings of the Strange Orchid
Today Michael Bryant tells The Diary of Mr Poynter by M. R. JAMESĂ‚Â ' There was about it so horrible an air of menace that, moaning with fear, he rushed from the room.'
Dec 15, 1980
15 min
More Spinned Against
Today Freddie Jones tells The Flowering of the Strange Orchid by H. G. WELLSĂ‚Â They found him lying dead in a mangrove swamp with one of these orchids crushed up under his body. Maybe that plant cost him his life to obtain.
Dec 16, 1980
15 min
The Hounds of Fate
John Woodvine tells More Spinned Against by JOHN WYNDHAMĂ‚Â ' Lydia entered Edward's spider-room about once a week, partly to tidy and dust it, and partly to enjoy detesting its inhabitants in a pleasantly masochistic fashion....'
Dec 18, 1980
15 min
Jerry Bundler
Today Jonathan Pryce tells The Hounds of Fate by SAKIĂ‚Â ' What do the folk around here say about me?' asked Stoner.Ă‚Â ' They be bitter agen you, mortal bitter. Aye, 'tis a sad business, a sad business.'
Dec 19, 1980
15 min
Gabriel Ernest
Today Michael Bryant tells Jerry Bundler by W. W. JACOBSĂ‚Â ' My father used to declare that the last time he slept here, the ghost of Jerry Bundler lowered itself from the top of his bed and tried to strangle him.'
Oct 1, 1981
15 min
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