
Supernatural Stories from a bygone time... Content warning. Contains Ghost. Ghouls. Monsters. Murderers and More... "Like Jackanory for Grown Ups." Live Show Audience member. Live on Substack. Mondays - 9pm gavcross.substack.com
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 13 | Founded | a year ago |
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A Phantastic horror story from the master, Nigel Kneale.
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Thank you eejits, Claire Pitt, Jude Wilde, Josie Ray, Rachael... more
William Wymark Jacobs - W.W. himself, will pop up here a lot… He holds a facination for me. Short story writer. Playwright. Fan of the supernatural. Writer of humour. East Ender. And the author of my very favourite Phantastic Story…
And I like this ... more
Do you know who Hilda Hughes is? Genuinely. There doesn’t seem to be much biographical info about them but they have two stories in the 1934 collection: “A Century of Creepy Stories”
I love books like these. They smell right! They smell like a colle... more
There are 1000’s of places to read in great depth about the Christmas tradition of telling ghost stories. Luckily, this isn’t one of them.
I’ll just tell you the story. Written for and performed live at “Ghost Stories for Christmas” at Norton Priory... more
Of course the most famous fantastic Story by WW Jacobs is “The Monkey’s Paw”. My love for that Story is inexhaustible but this story has a real charm. I was not surprised to hear it was converted into a play. It was like watching a black-and-white sp... more
As I typed this I realise I'm not going to be home to read a Story live. I am currently sat in a haunted Tudor Mansion, in Bolton. My job tonight is to tell ghost stories to teenagers who are going to sleep over… I love telling ghost stories.
I'm t... more
Full disclosure. I am a HG Wells stan.
I mean, I just sent out the first programmer requests to book my show:
The War of the Worlds
By H.G. Wells
A New Abridged Performed Reading
by Gav Cross
But that is not what we are here for. I love this li... more
I wasn't really a Famous Five kind of guy and I was a kid. I don't recall ever reading the books.
And I didn't really watch the famous 80s TV version
It was on ITV
I didn't watch much ITV then. Or now…
I think my most endearing introduction to th... more
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