Best Richard Crowest Podcasts (2025)

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James Lamp 33:16

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3y ago33:16

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“I woke again with the sense that there was something creeping up to the house, like the fog that was now thick outside my window, and seeking admittance.”By Richard Crowest

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The Step 34:53

3+ y ago34:53

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“With a sudden sinking of his heart, he heard behind him the step which he thought he had silenced for ever.”By Richard Crowest

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The East Wing: A Tragedy in the Manner of the Discursive Dramatists 13:50

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“How well he reads our sex,” murmured Mrs Gramplain, “and yet how badly he plays bridge!”By Richard Crowest

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The Flint Knife 28:47

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“I went to sleep at once, and from dreamlessness awoke suddenly to a consciousness of terror and imminent peril.”By Richard Crowest

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Mrs. Pendercoet’s Lost Identity: A Tragedy of the Chelsea Arts Club Ball 5:50

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“There is one character in fiction one hears no end of, but no one has ever seen her represented in portrait or in the flesh.”By Richard Crowest

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The Optimist 12:04

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“Once again Duncombe experienced the uncomfortable certainty of being face to face with a tragedy whose nature he could not guess at.”By Richard Crowest

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Outside the Door 19:52

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“Terror, that was slowly becoming a little more definite, terror of some dark and violent deed that was momently drawing nearer to me held me in its vice.”By Richard Crowest

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The House with the Brick-Kiln 28:23

4+ y ago28:23

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“At that moment I saw the face of Fear; my mouth went dry, and I heard my heart leaping and cracking in my throat.”By Richard Crowest

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The Shuttered Room 32:45

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“All was not well with the house: in some strange manner the shadow that had come between her closed eyes and the sun as she sat on the garden-bench had entered, and was establishing itself more firmly day by day.”By Richard Crowest

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Camels 5:08

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“The camel is old—horribly, mustily old—and it is difficult to conceive that it has ever been anything else.”By Richard Crowest

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In the Tube 35:00

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“I could not stir, I could not speak. I could only strain my ears for the inaudible and my eyes for the unseen, while the cold wind from the very valley of the shadow of death streamed over me.” (Note: this story features a suicide.)By Richard Crowest

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Gavon’s Eve 27:52

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“Then suddenly I saw something black move in the dimness in front of me, and against the grey foam rose up first the head, then the shoulders, and finally the whole figure of a woman…”By Richard Crowest

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The Temple 39:55

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“I am sure that no phantom of the dead that die not could have evoked so unnerving a terror.”By Richard Crowest

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A Shot in the Dark 11:27

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“‘I laid a trap for you; I told you that I had never met Mrs. Saltpen-Jago. As a matter of fact I met her at lunch on Monday last. She is a pronounced blonde.’”By Richard Crowest

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A Sacrifice to Necessity 9:59

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“‘It seems there is just one way out of the tangle. He’s inclined to be amorous.’”By Richard Crowest

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A Housing Problem – The Solution of an Insoluble Dilemma 9:43

5+ y ago9:43

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“‘We can’t keep shifting Mr. Chermbacon backwards and forwards as though he was the regulator of an erratic clock.’”By Richard Crowest

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Mrs. Amworth 36:39

5+ y ago36:39

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“I tell you that vampirism is by no means extinct now. An outbreak of it certainly occurred in India a year or two ago.”By Richard Crowest

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The Almanack 10:43

5+ y ago10:43

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“‘As your mother says, you are a mass of selfishness.’”By Richard Crowest

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The Holy War 12:55

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“Yealmton and his wife waged a politely reticent warfare; it was a struggle which Thirza knew she must ultimately win, because she was fighting for existence.”By Richard Crowest

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The Pond 12:11

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“How long would she struggle in those unfathomed weed-grown depths before she lay as picturesquely still as the drowned heroine of her tale-weavings?”By Richard Crowest

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How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery 37:12

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“Every guest on his arrival in the house is told that the long gallery must not be entered after nightfall on any pretext whatever.”By Richard Crowest

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The Thing in the Hall 29:53

6y ago29:53

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“In the shadows in the corner of my room there sits something more substantial than a shadow.”By Richard Crowest

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The Comments of Moung Ka 7:42

6y ago7:42

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“In Burma it is possible to be a politician without ceasing to be a philosopher.”By Richard Crowest

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Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business 3:37

6y ago3:37

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“Most of those terms are probably wrong, but a little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.”By Richard Crowest

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The Sanctuary 49:44

6y ago49:44

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“Then the sense of nightmare began, for his two companions, gripping him tightly, pulled him along towards it, and he struggled with them knowing there was something terrible within.”By Richard Crowest

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The Old Town of Pskoff 7:32

6+ y ago7:32

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“To the average modern Russian a desire to visit Pskoff is an inexplicable mental freak on the part of a foreigner who wishes to see something of the country he is living in.”By Richard Crowest

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The Achievement of the Cat 5:41

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“It is, indeed, no small triumph to have combined the untrammelled liberty of primeval savagery with the luxury which only a highly developed civilization can command.”By Richard Crowest