Green Tea | Sheridan Le Fanu (full audiobook)

This is my complete audiobook narration of “Green Tea” by J. Sheridan Le Fanu—a landmark Victorian tale of psychological terror, supernatural persecution, and the dangerous opening of doors best left closed. First serialized in All the Year Round in 1869 and later collected in Le Fanu’s celebrated In a Glass Darkly in 1872, “Green Tea” is presented as one of the strange cases investigated by the metaphysical physician Dr. Martin Hesselius. The story concerns the Reverend Mr. Jennings, a gentle and scholarly clergyman whose health and behaviour have begun to deteriorate under mysterious circumstances. While conducting private studies into religious metaphysics, Jennings worked late into the night and sustained himself with increasingly strong green tea. Then, during an evening journey through London, he noticed a small black monkey watching him from inside an otherwise empty omnibus. It followed him home. Visible to Jennings alone, the creature becomes a constant and increasingly malignant companion. It watches him study, interrupts his prayers, whispers obscenities during church services, and gradually isolates him from his congregation, his faith, and every source of comfort. When Jennings finally confides in Hesselius, the doctor must determine whether he is confronting a nervous disorder, a spiritual intrusion, or some terrible combination of the two. “Green Tea” remains one of Le Fanu’s most disturbing supernatural stories because it never allows the boundary between illness and haunting to become entirely secure. The apparition may be a psychological affliction, a demon from beyond ordinary perception, or the consequence of Jennings having opened his mind to a reality humanity was never meant to see. With its measured narration, intimate confessional structure, and steadily mounting dread, “Green Tea” is both a classic Victorian ghost story and a great audiobook to fall asleep to—provided you do not mind dreaming of two red eyes watching from the darkness. Author: J. Sheridan Le Fanu First Publication: All the Year Round, 1869 Collected In: In a Glass Darkly, 1872 Narration: Kristof Fruru (Miniature Mythos) ☕ Support the Channel If you would like to help me continue producing classic horror, ghost stories, and atmospheric audiobook narrations, you can support the channel here: coff.ee/MiniatureMythos Enjoying this descent into Victorian supernatural horror? Like, share, and subscribe for more classic ghost stories, Gothic fiction, and forgotten literary horrors. Comment below: do you believe Jennings is being haunted by a genuine entity, or destroyed by his own troubled mind?