How Love Came to Professor Guildea is an excellent tale of weird horror! So little actually "happens" in this story, and yet it really manages to fascinate and horrify the listener.
The use of the parrot (voiced by the incomparable Paul Frees) as a plot device is illustrative of a theme one often sees in ghost stories: animals that are particularly sensitive to the supernatural. If you have ever watched your dog or cat perk up over a noise that you can't hear or stare at a closed door, this device will ring particularly true for you.
Hitchens' story first appeared in Tongues of Conscience (1900), a collection of five horror stories. How Love Came to Professor Guildea is often anthologized in horror collections, but I don't believe any of the other stories from that volume are well-known.
Escape #29
How Love Came to Professor Guildea
28 Feb 1948\
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Robert Smythe Hitchens (author), James Lee (additional writing credit), Luis Van Rooten, Parley Baer, Paul Frees (as a parrot), Harry Bartell, Les Crutchfield (adaptor), William N. Robson (producer), Norman Macdonnell (director), Cy Feuer (music conceiver), Richard Aurandt (organist)
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