"An Experiment of the Dead" by Helen de Guerry Simpson | Audio narration | Macabre fiction

When the Reverend Dionysius Luan asks to visit his cousin who is in prison awaiting execution, the solicitor begins to wonder whether he has an ulterior motive.

This original recording is an audio presentation by Jasper L'Estrange for EnCrypted Horror. “An Experiment of the Dead” by Helen de Guerry Simpson (1938).

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About the story:
"An Experiment of the Dead” by Helen de Guerry Simpson. First published in The Tatler, 19th October 1938. Later collected in The Ash Tree Press Annual Macabre, 2001 and, more recently, in “The Outcast and The Rite: Stories of Landscape and Fear, 1925-1938” (ed. Melissa Edmundson, pub. Handheld Press, 2022).
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Music used : "IMAGINARY" composed and produced by "Vivek Abhishek"
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Music used : "IMMACULATE" composed and produced by "Vivek Abhishek"
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The recording was created using Audacity and BandLab. Podcast hosted by Spotify.
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