Two Tales of Terror by Louisa Baldwin and read by Christopher Halton

Here are two short stories from the pen of Louisa Baldwin.

1. 0:42 "Many Waters Cannot Quench Love". First published: The Shadow on the Blind and Other Ghost Stories. Publisher: Ward & Downey, London
During a quiet stay at a country farmhouse, the sensible solicitor John Horton experiences nothing unusual—until his final night.
Descending the dark staircase, he sees a young woman seated on the steps, bowed in silent, hopeless grief. She does not acknowledge him, nor seem entirely real. He later discovers a terrible tragedy.

2. 22:15 “How He Left the Hotel” First appeared in the periodical The Argosy (September 1894).
Gaslight Lit. Later included in the anthology The Shadow on the Blind and Other Ghost Stories (1895).

A retired army officer, frail and worsening in health, spends his last days quietly lodged in a London hotel. Late one night, the lift operator watches him step into the elevator and descend as usual—nothing strange, nothing hurried.
But minutes later, the hotel staff received the news: the officer had died in his room before the lift ever moved.
Only then does the operator realise what he actually witnessed—not how the man left his room, but how he left the world.

This version is read by Chris Halton.

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