DUSK BEFORE HELVELLYN
[RADIO-STORY]
A weird story, perhaps a follow-up to the Nightmares series, by Antony Marsden, mystery novelist
best remembered for The Man in the Sandhills (1927), The Mycroft Murder Case (19??), and The
Moonstone Mystery (19??).
“A nightmare story of the Cumberland Lake District by Antony Marsden. Read by the author.”
Jenkins, Alan C. (compiler) - Ghosts!: An Anthology of Spectral Stories. Blackie & Son, London.
Stories by Sir Richard Burton, Marguerite Tinayre, Antony Marsden, Daniel Defoe, Eden
Phillpotts, Edgar Allen Poe, Algernon Blackwood, R.H.Barham, L.P.Hartley, Maurice O'Sullivan,
W.H.Barrett, Sir Walter Scott, H.P.Lovecraft, P.C.Wren, Lord Dunsany, Mark Twain, Richard
Middleton, A.L.Rowse, Horace Annesley Vachell, E.F.Benson, and Jerome K. Jerome.
ORIGINATION: Empire Programme, Daventry (BBC).
DURATION: October 2, 1935.
PERSONNEL: Antony Marsden (writer, reader).
EXTANT RECORDINGS: None.
(EMPIRE PROGRAMME, DAVENTRY—BBC)
[Wednesday—4:30-4:50 PM]
October 2, 1935 “Dusk Before Helvellyn”