"I never eat pork. It's not that I'm vegetarian, or Jewish or Muslim, it's all to do with something that happened in the 70's, when I was fifteen years old." So begins a tale of innocence lost, buckets of blood, and the lengths someone might go to in order that they might... sustain a life. A gruesome tale from New Zealand. Story featured with kind permission from the author: Jane Percival (https://heni-irihapeti.com/) Narrated and produced by Thomas Barker If you'd like to chip in a couple o...
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"I never eat pork. It's not that I'm vegetarian, or Jewish or Muslim, it's all to do with something that happened in the 70's, when I was fifteen years old." So begins a tale of innocence lost, buckets of blood, and the lengths someone might go to in order that they might... sustain a life. A gruesome tale from New Zealand. Story featured with kind permission from the author: Jane Percival (https://heni-irihapeti.com/) Narrated and produced by Thomas Barker If you'd like to chip in a couple o...
"Mr Justice Harbottle" by J. S. Le Fanu | Last Gasp of the Gothic
Tom's Terror Trove
1 hour 27 minutes
2 months ago
"Mr Justice Harbottle" by J. S. Le Fanu | Last Gasp of the Gothic
A tale of debauchery, depravity, and pestiferous perukes! E F Benson (whose "The Thing in the Hall" I recorded in May 2024) said of Le Fanu, that his “best work is of the first rank, while as a 'flesh-creeper' he is unrivalled. No one else has so sure a touch in mixing the mysterious atmosphere in which horror darkly breeds". I think that is certainly true of tonight’s story. There are some grotesquely comical elements to it, fitting for a narrative that takes place in the 18th century. I can...
Tom's Terror Trove
"I never eat pork. It's not that I'm vegetarian, or Jewish or Muslim, it's all to do with something that happened in the 70's, when I was fifteen years old." So begins a tale of innocence lost, buckets of blood, and the lengths someone might go to in order that they might... sustain a life. A gruesome tale from New Zealand. Story featured with kind permission from the author: Jane Percival (https://heni-irihapeti.com/) Narrated and produced by Thomas Barker If you'd like to chip in a couple o...
