Episode 172: A School Story by M. R. James




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Summary: Narrated by Alasdair Stuart Audio production by Jeremy Carter Originally published by the author in More Ghost Stories, 1911 Listen above or download here. Show Notes We present a public domain classic this week, M. R. James’ The School Story, originally published in the anthology More Ghost Stories in 1911. Image licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.       And who better to narrate an English ghost story than the Lord of Pseudopod Towers, Alasdair Stuart. Alasdair is a narration regular across the fiction podcast landscape, as well as being the host of Pseudopod and co-host of EscapePod. You can follow him on Twitter, or read about everything from movies to travel to taquitos on his blog, The Man of Words.         Do you love flash fiction? The Escape Artists podcasts are hosting their fourth annual flash fiction contest, starting with Pseudopod this year. The submission window runs from August 15th through September 15th. All the details can be found on their forum. Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com. Click here to read the text of the story