Hello and welcome to season seven episode 13 of Darkestries. I'm a host Ben

This week we're gonna make it a little bit different. I'm taking my mid-season summer break this week

Just to give me some time to organize the second half of the series

I say you organize what I mean is I'll I'll list out the episodes

I'm gonna be doing and then ignore it for the next

For the rest of the series and and cause problems for myself

As I always do, but I

You know, I'm gonna be trying to try my best to organize the second half of the series and just take a little break from the writing and the

researching just just just a little bit of a refresher with that said as a podcast list of myself

I don't like to just re-upload a repeat episode or an old episode or something like

You know, it's because whenever I listen to other podcasts that do that I always kind of bugs me a little bit

So what I thought I'd do is fall back onto the trusty

MR James collected ghost stories that I've got and read you another one of my favorite of his works

So this week I thought I would choose I was I was going from my book

I've got the collected the Oxford University Press collected ghost stories of MR James

Which is a beautiful like cloth bound version of basically every single MR James story

There is going and I was going through the contents and I thought I would pick

Lost hearts now reason I thought I'd go for lost hearts

I'm pretty sure it was the the second story ever wrote so it's pretty early on in his is

Sort of writing career, but it's also quite unique in that it's a it's a little it's from a different perspective

Because most of MR James is or a lot of MR James's stories they come from an adult's perspective as

And they're often like a stuffy old

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