"Seaton's Aunt" by Walter de la Mare
A schoolboy is reluctantly drawn into the unhappy world of Arthur Seaton - a bullied outsider with a domineering aunt he believes communicates with ghosts. When their paths cross again as adults, the malignant power the aunt exercises over everyone in her thrall becomes apparent.
This audiobook of Walter de la Mare's classic psychological horror story brings "Seaton's Aunt" to vivid life with sound effects, music and compelling narration. It is part of the EnCrypted Classic Horror podcast series - read by Jasper L'Estrange.
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About the episode: "Seaton's Aunt" by Walter de la Mare was first published in The Riddle, and Other Stories (Selwyn & Blount Ltd, 1923).
Theme 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: Piano Sad 2 (Piano & Strings Version) by PeriTune | http://peritune.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/
Giant Wyrm by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3807-giant-wyrm License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Piano Sonata no. 14 in C-sharp minor 'Moonlight Sonata', Op. 27 no. 2 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Sound effect attributions:
https://freesound.org/people/MeijstroAudio/sounds/372869/*
https://freesound.org/people/Cell31_Sound_Productions/sounds/376248/*
https://freesound.org/people/tosha73/sounds/530920/*
https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/411576/*
https://freesound.org/people/daveincamas/sounds/44102/*
https://freesound.org/people/HerbertBoland/sounds/31960/*
https://freesound.org/people/SoundMarnus/sounds/491773/*
*All used under the following Creative Commons license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
All other public domain sound effects sourced at: https://freesound.org/
The recording was created using Audacity and BandLab. Podcast hosted by Anchor.