The Bus Conductor | A Ghost Story by E. F. Benson | A Bitesized Audiobook

A new recording of a classic public domain text from 1906. Narrated/performed by me, Simon Stanhope, aka Bitesized Audio. If you enjoy this content and would like to help me keep creating, there are a few ways you can support me:

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About the story: Two friends, one a believer in the supernatural and the other a sceptic, talk about a night they spent in a "haunted" house, which brought no results. But then the sceptic surprises his friend by telling of a very strange experience which happened to him a year earlier...

00:00:00 Introduction and biographical notes, written and read by Simon Stanhope
00:03:09 The Story begins
00:28:15 Credits and thanks

‘The Bus Conductor’ is one of E. F. Benson’s earliest works, and first appeared in the December 1906 edition of the Pall Mall Magazine. It’s one of his best known stories, and is often remembered as forming part of the portmanteau British horror film ‘Dead of Night’ in 1945, five years after Benson’s death.

About the author: Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940) is probably best remembered today for his social satires, the Mapp and Lucia stories. However in his lifetime he was perhaps more famous for his many "spook stories" (as he liked to call them) which he composed regularly for publication in periodicals – usually Hutchinson's or Pearson's magazines – from the mid 1890s through to the 1930s. He was a friend and contemporary of M. R. James, the most celebrated of 20th century ghost story authors, and was a member of the Chitchat Club, the Cambridge University literary society where James would read aloud his ghost stories to a select few. As a writer of ghost stories, E. F. Benson's own output includes an unusually wide and adventurous range of styles and themes, encompassing stories of vampires, homicidal spirits, monstrous creatures, as well as satires of charlatan mediums who became so fashionable in the 1920s.

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