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This is Sudapod, the weekly horror podcast.

What follows will contain very dark, very adult situations.

Proceed at your own risk, and feel free to turn back if it gets too much.

After all, next week, the recording will be different.

Sudeepod, episode 958, January 17th, 2025. This week's story, The Shout, by Robert Graves,

narrated by Graham Dunlop, hosted by Alastair Stewart,

with audio production by Chelsea Davis.

Welcome back, everyone. This is Sudapod, the weekly horror podcast. I'm Alistair,

your host, and this week's story comes to us from Robert Graves.

Robert Graves was born in 1895 and died in 1985. In the intervening span,

the son of celebrated Irish poet Alfred Percival Graves produced more than 140 works,

including poems, translative work, analysis, and memoir. Goodbye to all that about his experiences in World War I is justifiably regarded as a classic,

and Graves, along with Wilfred Owen and Seacreed Sassoon, should be regarded as one of the definitive poets and authors of that generation of veterans.

He's an important fictional figure, too, part of Pat Barker's stunning regeneration, one of the best novels about the period ever written.

Graves struggled with both his trauma and his bisexuality, living in a time where both were regarded as something to be repressed.

A fiercely prolific author, he also turned down a CPE in 1957, and was turned down for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962, because he was regarded as primarily a poet.

In 1967, he was considered for but not given the role of poet laureate. He was prolific, versatile, and both unable and refusing to be pigeonhole. A truly

unique voice. The Shout was first published in a limited edition chapbook, the Woeburn Books

No. 16 in 1929. It was made into an acclaimed movie starring Alan Bates as Crossley,

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