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Гостивший у своего друга Хью Грейнджер в одну из ночей увидел, что к дому подъехал странный экипаж. Пустая дорога. Поздняя ночь. И странный кучер, напоминающий почему-то кондуктора автобуса...

Гостивший у своего друга Хью Грейнджер в одну из ночей увидел, что к дому подъехал странный экипаж. Пустая дорога. Поздняя ночь. И странный кучер, напоминающий почему-то кондуктора автобуса...

Hugh Granger, who was visiting his friend one night, saw a strange carriage drive up to the house. Empty road. Late night. And a strange coachman, who for some reason resembles a bus conductor...

Hugh Granger, who was visiting his friend one night, saw a strange carriage drive up to the house. Empty road. Late night. And a strange coachman, who for some reason resembles a bus conductor...

Two friends, one a believer in the supernatural and the other a sceptic, talk about a night they spent in a "haunted" house, which brought no results. But then the sceptic surprises his friend by telling of a very strange experience which happened to him a year earlier...

"Just room for one inside, sir," isn't quite as bone-chilling as hearing "room for one more, honey" in one of the Twilight Zone's most popular episodes, "Twenty Two." The Rod Serling masterpiece was inspired by E.F. Benson's "The Bus-Conductor". A ghost bears the chilling news instead of a recurring dream in Benson's chiller. Award-winning audiobook narrator Mike Vendetti brings The Bus-Conductor, pardon the pun, to life.

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his masterly and uncanny ghost stories. One of the most famous of these is "The Bus Conductor". It is a deceptively simple tale of a mysterious apparition which comes into view on an ordinary London street under most peculiar circumstances. The chilling catchphrase spoken by the mysterious figure: "Just room for one inside, Sir" takes on an altogether sinister meaning.

While staying at a friend’s house in an apparently humdrum London suburb, the sceptical Hugh Grainger sees and then converses with an unsettling stranger from his bedroom window in the very dead of night. But what could be the meaning of this curious visitation? ‘Hold very tight, please!’ E. F. Benson is well known for his Mapp and Lucia novels but his ghost and supernatural stories are marvellous jewels, combining elegant writing and moments of blood-curdling horror. Here Greg Wagland narrates one of the best of them, for Magpie Audio.