Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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"Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House" is a short story by Algernon Blackwood, appearing in his 1906 anthology, The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories. "There was something very strange about the man who lived on the floor above the doctor."

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00:00 - Introduction
00:38 - Smith
43:29 - Further Listening

Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble
Music and production by Ian & Jennifer Gordon

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