Horror is not just seeing something approach.

Horror is whispering in your ear.

Right now.

Welcome to Sudapod, where adult content and horrific situations

are in the room waiting for you.

Souder Pod, Episode 901.

Wow, January 12, 2024.

This week's story, The Shadowy Escort by Ayan Burrage, narrated by Josh Roseman, audio production

by Chelsea Davis, hosted by Alistair Stewart.

Hello.

Hey everyone, welcome to Pseudopod, The Weekly Horror Podcast, and welcome to 2024.

Hope you're settling in okay.

I'm Alistair, your host for the week, and this week's story is part of our public domain showcase and comes to us from A.M.

or Alfred McLelland Burrage. Burrage's career had two acts. Burrage began writing after his father's death in 1906 and wrote fiction for

boys under the pseudonym Frank Lelland. After his death, his ghost stories became even more popular and

his work was published in markets like the Grand Magazine, the novel

magazine, Kisell's magazine and the weekly tale tell teller. He also wrote a

memoir of his service in the First World War and his pseudonym for that. The

Fantastic X private X, Private X was used as the author's name for the

collections of his ghost stories released in the 1920s. He would become better

known for his ghost stories than much of his other work and he sits

in the same spectrum as MR James and HR Wakefield who we will be getting to.

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