Home
Artists
Search Recent Random
Posts
Search DMs Popular Hash Lookup Tags Random
Importer
Import FAQ
Register
Partychan Telegram ThePornDude
Home Artists Posts Import Register

Episode 411 - An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street (Patreon)

Published:
2018-07-14 19:21:50
Edited:
2019-01-04 03:20:00
Imported:
2021-07

Downloads

Content

Tune in to hear An Account Of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by Sheridan Le Fanu!

Special thanks to reader extraordinaire, Greig Johnson!

Here's that scene from No Activity we were referencing.

Next up: The New Catacomb by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Comments

Anonymous

I mean there are plenty of bears in the weird tales I read maybe we're talking about two different things

Anonymous

This story seems an obvious influence on "The Judge's House" by Bram Stoker, a much superior (and later) story. *Both writers are Irish *Judge in both stories *Hanging in both stories *HAUNTED PORTRAIT in both stories *Rats in both stories *An odd hanging rope in both stories (bell rope vs. jump rope) *Rats with HUMAN EMOTIONS in both stories. Here it's the face of the rat, but in "The Judge's House," there is a "squeak of pure hatred," which I remember you guys going on for some time about in that episode. There was a funny moment in this episode when you guys were talking about how you wished the ghost had hanged the character, rather than himself. But back when you were doing the Stoker story, you discussed how shocking it was that the ghost hangs a character, because that never happens. I think reading Stoker's story first sort of spoiled you for this story, since the Stoker story is so much better. I am pretty sure that Stoker read the story by his fellow Irishman, thought "hey, this has some good ideas, but I can make this better," and voila! "The Judge's House."

Anonymous
>>13842350

By the way, my ridiculous comment demonstrates that I really am too obsessed with your podcast. Only a person who has listened to episodes repeatedly is going to see all this.

Frank Lee

6'1"? Everybody check out this LA hipster.

Anonymous

The discussion on the rat’s possible human like face made me think of this cat with a human face that is making the rounds on the net. <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fVpYCXhmKjk" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fVpYCXhmKjk</a>

Anonymous

Hears “it is not worth telling this story, let alone writing”... turns off podcast makes fish sticks.

Anonymous

Chris doesn't get enough bears in weird fiction. Or seizures. Of course, scariest of all...seizure bears.

Anonymous

I was hoping for some saxophone riffs when the sensual judge appeared.

Anonymous
>>13875694

Is that a bear that HAS seizures, or a bear that CAUSES seizures? Because a bear that causes seizures when you look at him would be a ridiculously efficient apex predator.

Anonymous

On bears in weird fiction, there’s Jeff Vandermeer’s “The Third Bear” <a href="http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/vandermeer_04_07/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/vandermeer_04_07/</a>

Anonymous

Speaking of sniffing glue - I once worked with a guy whose sister became convinced that there were people living in her walls. There turned out to be a rational and scientific explanation for that as well, which was that she was literally smoking crack - an often overlooked possibility in weird fiction.

Anonymous

I remember when I first got my hands on a collection of Le Fanu stories. At the time I really couldn't believe how a guy who is capable of pieces like "Carmilla" or "Green Tea" can write something so utterly uninspired and trite. Like Chad I'm still clinging to the possibility that I might have missed something here, although my hopes in this direction have diminished considerably after listening to the episode.

Anonymous

For that description of creepy-portrait-guy. Anyone else think of an angry Max Klinger in a silk floral kimono?

Anonymous
>>13953293

no but i cant get that image out of my head now. thanks:)

Anonymous

Anybody else think Baron Duhlstoerf later moved to Kingsport to become "The Terrible Old Man?" Hence the fact he "filled the parlour windows with bottles of indescribable horrors."

Anonymous

The most disturbing part was the use of the word of sensuality to describe the judge.

nils hedglin

Did anyone else deduce the bear's name? Obviously, since there's a Tom &amp; a Dick, the bear's name is Harry.

Anonymous

I agree with both Ur frustrations over this story. I feel the same way about many of LeFanu's stories. The notable exceptions are: Of course, Carmilla BUT let me also recommend you both consider another that is TRULY weirdly disturbing, which is Schalkin the Painter. This one really creeped me out, even as it had the most surreal plotline. Give it a try &amp; see what you think of it.

Anonymous

Clearly a Christmas ghost story, not quite up to M. R. James.