"The Villa Désirée" by May Sinclair

By EnCrypted Pod

EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast

03/02/22·31m 3s

A recently engaged woman is to meet her fiancé at his villa in the south of France. But will her misgivings about sleeping in the room in which his former bride-to-be died prove unfounded...or does the Villa Désirée hold a shocking secret?

This is an audio presentation of "The Villa Désirée" by May Sinclair (1921). It is narrated and produced by Jasper L'Estrange for the EnCrypted Classic Horror Podcast.

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About the episode:

"The Villa Désirée" by May Sinclair. First published in Hutchinson's Magazine, December 1921. First collected in "The Ghost Book: Sixteen New Uncanny Stories" (ed. Lady Cynthia Asquith, pub. Hutchinson, 1921). Later collected in "The Intercessor and Other Stories" by May Sinclair (pub. Hutchinson, 1930).

Credit where credit's due:

Past The Edge by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4997-past-the-edge
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseTheme music: The Black Waltz by Scott Buckley | www.scottbuckley.com.au Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Incidental music:

Water Prelude by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4610-water-prelude
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

The Dread by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4491-the-dread
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Sound effects: All sound effects sourced at Freesound.

The recording was created using Audacity and BandLab. Podcast hosted by Anchor.

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