How Śiva Spoke | L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace | A Bitesized Audiobook

John Bell, Victorian adventurer and "professional exposer of ghosts", is asked by a doctor acquaintance to investigate the case of Edward Thesiger, who claims the statue of Śiva speaks to him. Thesiger seems perfectly sane in other respects, yet his nephew wants him committed to an asylum. Can Bell unravel the mystery of how Thesiger hears Śiva's voice, even though others present in the same room hear nothing? 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 How Śiva Spoke 00:55:00 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 much associated with mystery and suspense stories, and her name appeared frequently in the periodicals of the 1890s and early 1900s. Interestingly, in this genre she often wrote in collaboration with medical practitioners; first with Dr. Clifford Halifax, with whom she produced a series entitled ‘Stories from the Diaries of a Doct