The Shout - Robert Graves
Category: Horror
Narrator: Full Cast
Tags: Horror, Radio Productions, Full Cast
David has arrived at the local cricket match in Lambton featuring the patients of the lunatic asylum from just outside the village. He cant play this week because of a thumb injury but has offered to keep score. George Wiseman, the Chief Psychiatric Officer and the captain of the home team, directs David to a cozy hut where he will sit with a very interesting patient whom hes sure to like called Crossley, while he keeps score., He tells David that Crossley is highly intelligent and very widely travelled by all accounts, but the reason he has come to the asylum is that he suffers delusions that his soul is split into different pieces; that hes killed people in Australia; and that he has a magical power. But before leading him into the hut, George warns him that Crossley, though perfectly harmless, will get a little bit excited at times and if he does, to give one of them a quick shout and theyll pop along and sort it out., During a cricket match, Crossley begins to tell David the story
