Taken from the 1980 BBC1 Jackanory spinoff 'Spine Chillers' that featured abridged readings of classic spooky stories by the likes of Saki, M.R. James, John Wyndham and in this instance Barnard Stacey, read by John Woodvine.
Originally published in 1933 in The Evening Standard it's the story of three chums who upon aquiring a spell book decide it would be a wizard wheeze to use it to transfer the soul of their grumpy neighbour into a lay figure.
With it's satanic undertones this is without doubt the most enjoyably and luridly pulpy of the Spine Chillers episodes I've seen and benefits immensely from a suitably urgent and dynamic reading from Woodvine.
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