Episode 26: 'Eyes for the Blind' by Frederick Cowles

 

Rather sooner than anticipated, we return to Frederick Cowles, the nowadays (sadly) rather unsung author of the 1936 collection Horror at Abbot's Grange. The reason for recording another of his stories so soon is that the last one (House on the Marsh) has proved to be the most successful episode of EnCrypted yet and I wanted to capitalise on the hitherto unimagined Cowles craze!
 
I could have chosen any number of the stories in Horror at Abbot's Grange.  They are almost all short (to the point of bluntness) and infuse the M.R. James formula with the gruesome excesses of his pulpier imitators.  They're good fun and, while I work on some longer stories, should keep the pot boiling.

I haven't managed to uncover any more biographical detail about the author since last time (his middle name was Ignatius, if I neglected to mention it before) so there is little to say here other than "Enjoy the show".
 
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About the episode:
 
 "Eyes for the Blind" by Frederick Cowles. First published in The Horror of Abbot's Grange, and Other Stories by Frederick Cowles, 1936.
 
Credit where credit's due:
 
End 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/ 
 
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Ominous by Kevin MacLeod
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Supernatural by Kevin MacLeod
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Dopplerette by Kevin MacLeod
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