A FEW SHORT stories

This is a collection of miscellaneous short stories that I have recorded for fun and for particular people I know.

Stories are better when they’re shared, so I’d like to share them with you too!

Oh Whistle and I’ll Come To You My Lad

• M R James, first published in his collection Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, 1904

The classic ghost story of a seaside haunting

Bad company

• Walter De la Mare, first published in the collection A Beginning & Other Stories, 1955

• Music - ‘The Undead’ by Haunted Corpse

A ghost story set in London involving an unsettling stranger

The Night the Bed Fell

• James Thurber, first published in his collection My Life and Hard Times, 1933

A funny tale about a family on a particularly bizarre night

The Night the Ghost Got In

• James Thurber, as above

Another funny tale - same family, different bizarre night

The Butter

• A. A. Milne, first published in Punch between 1906 and 1920; then in the compilation of articles called Those Were The Days, 1929

A bachelor laments his butter-related life problems

Getting The Needle

• A. A. Milne, as above

A bachelor recounts an unusual party game

The Ugsome Thing

• Ruth Ainsworth, from The Ten Tales of Shellover, 1963

A silly fable about a horrible creature

All recordings copyright of Alex Eller (2023)