The Mystery of the Circular Chamber | L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace | A Bitesized Audiobook

"Something happens in this house, and no living soul knows what it is, for they who have seen it have never yet survived to tell the tale." Legend says that no-one survives the night in the circular room at the Castle Inn, where several unexplained deaths have been popularly attributed to "fright". John Bell, Victorian adventurer and "professional exposer of ghosts", is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. **Note for returning listeners: This is a new recording of one of my earliest stories for the channel, a re-upload to mark the completion of the series in October 2023. It will also be available to listen shortly as a complete video with re-mastered audio of all six stories. Narrated/performed by Simon Stanhope, aka Bitesized Audio. If you enjoy this content and would like to help me keep creating, there are a few ways you can support me (and get access to exclusive content): * Occasional/one-off support via Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitesizedaudio * Monthly support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitesizedaudio * Visit my Bandcamp page to hear more of my performances of classic stories, and you can purchase and download high quality audio files to listen offline: https://bitesizedaudio.bandcamp.com/ * Become a Bitesized Audio Classics member on YouTube, from $1 / £1 / €1 per month: https://www.youtube.com/c/BitesizedAudioClassics/join 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:20 The Mystery of the Circular Chamber 00:55:10 Credits and thanks L. T. Meade (Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith, 1844–1914) was born in County Cork, Ireland. She began writing fiction at the age of 17, and had a highly prolific career, publishing almost 300 books in her lifetime. She married Alfred Toulmin Smith in London, in 1879, when she was in her mid-30s. She was an advocate of feminist causes, and as a solo writer became most associated with adventure stories for girls and young people, of which the most famous was ‘A World of Girls’, published in 1886. However, she was also well known for her many mys