One, Two Buckle my Shoe by Nugent Barker

This story by Nugent Barker comes from his anthology Written By My Left Hand, which I guess is a pointer to the fact that they deal with things that emerge from the night side of the mind, the subconscious. It is a story about the Devouring Mother told in a dream-like way. It's horror for sure. It's short and leaves you scratching your head, yet it is told in a familiar way from ghost stories where gentlemen are sitting in their study around a blazing fire sipping whiskey toddies while they swap scary stories. The content of the story is less than straightforward though. You have the benefit of my thoughts afterwards. Just for you, here's a link to this whole book online as a PDFhttps://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/EB/B/Barker%20-%20Written%20With%20My%20Left%20Hand.pdf## Get All Episodes Ad Free!$1 a month for the whole back catalog of episodes on Patreon. Download at your leisure. https://www.patreon.com/barcud## Buy Dracula Audiobook for DownloadBuy it directly from me at a knockdown price £4.99. https://ko-fi.com/s/a7a5c648b8## If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here You could buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker or join as a Patron for members only stories for $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/barcud)## Late Night Talk RadioListen to my other podcast! Here [Classic Ghost Stories Episodes – The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast](https://link.chtbl.com/late_night)#audiobook #horroraudiobook #freeaudiobook #horror #classicghoststoriesThe story is reminiscent of Robert Aickman or Bruno Schulz for its uncanny unnerving weirdness.#freeaudiobooks #weirdtales #horror
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A weekly podcast that reads out ghost stories, horror stories, and weird tales every week. Classic stories from the pens of the masters Occasionally, we feature living authors, but the majority are dead. Some perhaps are undead.
We go from cosy Edwardian ghost stories (E. F. Benson, Walter De La Mare) to Victorian supernatural mysteries (M. R. James, Elizabeth Gaskell, Bram Stoker, and Charles Dickens) to 20th-century Weird Tales (Robert Aickman, Fritz Lieber, Clark Ashton-Smith, and H. P. Lovecraft) and wander from the Gothic to the Odd, even to the Literary, and then back again.
Each episode is followed by Tony's take on the story, its author, its content and any literary considerations, which may be useful to students!

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