Classic Ghost Stories

A weekly podcast that reads out ghost stories, horror stories, and weird tales every week. Classic stories from the pens of the masters Occasionally, we feature living authors, but the majority are dead. Some perhaps are undead.

We go from cosy Edwardian ghost stories (E. F. Benson, Walter De La Mare) to Victorian supernatural mysteries (M. R. James, Elizabeth Gaskell, Bram Stoker, and Charles Dickens) to 20th-century Weird Tales (Robert Aickman, Fritz Lieber, Clark Ashton-Smith, and H. P. Lovecraft) and wander from the Gothic to the Odd, even to the Literary, and then back again.

Each episode is followed by Tony's take on the story, its author, its content and any literary considerations, which may be useful to students!

Fiction
Science Fiction
Drama
1
The Thing Invisible by W H Hodgson
60 min
2
A Recluse by Walter de la Mare
115 min
3
The Bat by Bela Lugosi
11 min
4
The Bat by Bela Lugosi
11 min
5
The Terror of Blue John Gap by Arthur Conan Doyle
81 min
6
And No Bird Sings by E F Benson
54 min
7
Mezengerstein by Edgar Allan Poe
50 min
8
An Encounter in the Mist by A N L Munby
41 min
9
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas by M R James
65 min
10
The Occupant of the Room by Algernon Blackwood
54 min
11
Cwm Garon by L T C Rolt
75 min
12
The Playfellow by Lady Cynthia Asquith
78 min
13
The Skeleton Count or The Vampire Mistress by E...
65 min
14
A Message for Julia by R A Sunter
61 min
15
The Frost Fair by Tony Walker
63 min
16
The Demon King by J B Priestley
54 min
17
Boxing Night by E F Benson
57 min
18
Lucky's Grove by H Russell Wakefield
83 min
19
The Man Who Came Back by Margery Lawrence
65 min
20
The Four-Fifteen Express by Amelia B. Edwards
102 min
21
The Doll's Ghost by F. Marion Crawford
65 min
22
The Whistling Room by William Hope Hodgson
70 min
23
A Haunted House by Charles Dickens
98 min
24
Hawley Bank Foundry by L T C Rolt
85 min
25
The Dunwich Horror by H P Lovecraft
119 min