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b"Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron DunsanyEdward John Moreton Draw Plunkett, or Lord Dunsany was known to his friends as Eddie.\\xa0Lord Dunsany was born in 1878 in London England and died in 1957 in Dublin Ireland. \\xa0Though born in England, he was heir to the oldest inhabited house in Ireland: Dunsany Castle near Tara. In County Meath.He worked to support the Abbey Theatre in Dublin with W B Yeats and Lady Gregory. In addition he was chess and pistol champion of Ireland.\\xa0He was also a great traveller and, as you can tell from this story: he was a habitual hunter with horse and hounds.He was a prolific writer produced over ninety volumes of fiction, essays, poems and plays.\\xa0His most famous book is possibly The King of Elfland\\u2019s Daughter and he is thought to be the first fantasy writer who set out the later genre that produced the Narnia books and The Lord of the Rings\\xa0and ultimately Game of Thrones.\\xa0Thirteen At TableThis story was suggested by Mike Jenkins.\\xa0We have a beautiful description of the Kent countryside on a spring evening as they follow the fox.\\xa0This is indeed a fox hunt and may not be to everyone\\u2019s taste but is part of the story.\\xa0I like the idea that a gentleman at hounds may request a bed from any other gentleman who has a gentleman\\u2019s house.It\\u2019s s simple tale thereafter. We have host, Sir Richard Arlen, who says he has lived a wicked life. What he has done to this succession of women that means he has to dine with them every night for the past fifty years is not explained. But we understand he has wronged them and we guess perhaps he was somewhat of a rake.As the dinner goes on. It is explained that Mr Linton drinks a lot as he is dehydrated.\\xa0He is also tired. He starts off by humouring the guest and then takes to his story of his wonderful twenty point hunt. The best hunt that ever was and a tale that grows in the telling. I am thinking this is a good humoured dig at huntsmen and their stories.\\xa0And as he feels the need for an audience to tell his tale, slowly the ghosts become visible to Mr Linton and he begins to treat them as real people rather than as figments of his imagination. It is so slowly and delicately done that it is very effective and smooth.\\xa0In the end he offends the ghosts by something he said. They are clearly very sensitive and collect slights. He is mortified, but the host is supremely grateful.\\xa0There is a happy ending in that Sir Richard ArlenIt\\u2019s a humorous and pretty story. I haven\\u2019t read much Dunsany, but I\\u2019m keen to read more now.If You Appreciate The Work I\\u2019ve Put In HereIf You Appreciate The Work I\\u2019ve Put In HereYou could buy me a coffee\\xa0https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker)Become a Patronhttps://www.patreon.com/barcud (https://www.patreon.com/barcud)And you can join my mailing list and get a\\xa0free audiobook:\\xa0https://bit.ly/dalstonvampire (https://bit.ly/dalstonvampire)Music By The Heartwood Institutehttps://bit.ly/somecomeback*** (https://bit.ly/somecomeback***)Support the showVisit us here: www.ghostpod.orgBuy me a coffee if you're glad I do this: https://ko-fi.com/tonywalkerIf you really want to help me, become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barcudMusic by The Heartwood Institute: https://bit.ly/somecomeback\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"