Episode 43: 'The Man Who Liked Dickens' by Evelyn Waugh

 

In an effort to win back his unfaithful wife, an upper-class Englishman joins an expedition to follow the Uraricoera River in South America. Things quickly go awry, however, and when he is rescued by an English-speaking man living among Shiriana Indians he considers himself lucky...at first. 

This is an audio presentation of "The Man Who Liked Dickens" (1933) written by Evelyn Waugh. It is narrated and produced by Jasper L'Estrange for EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast. 

Read the story online here: https://talesofmytery.blogspot.com/2014/03/evelyn-waugh-man-who-liked-dickens.html 

 JASPER SAYS: "I think this is one of the most terrifying tales ever written...and there's not a ghost or ghoul in sight." 

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About the episode: "The Man Who Liked Dickens" by Evelyn Waugh. First published in Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan magazine, 1933.  

Credit where credit's due: 

Incidental music: 

Music provided by "Vivek Abhishek" https://www.youtube.com/user/VivEKhsihbA/videos 

Music used : "In The Trap" originally composed and produced by "Vivek Abhishek" https://youtu.be/1NUq3xfF2G4 Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VivekEKhsihbA/ Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/2ImU2JV 

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Vivek Abhishek and Kevin MacLeod create music, both copyright protected and copyright free, and makes it available to video creators for free.  Please check out their respective channels.

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

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