"Mr Tallent's Ghost" by Mary Webb

EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast by EnCrypted Pod

May 16, 202600:38:31Society & Culture

A bored barrister, stranded by rain in a lonely mountain inn, meets the oddly persistent Mr Tallent who proceeds to read to him. Years later, a death, a will, and a box of interminable manuscripts draw the narrator back...

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