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, which can ramble on to discuss the weather, books, his dogs, what Sheila is foraging, and what he thinks of hauntology. Perfect to fall asleep to, and perfectly optional if you only want the tale itself.


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Fiction
Science Fiction
Drama
1
Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon
59 min
2
Who Knows? by Guy du Maupassant
47 min
3
The Daemon Lover by Shirley Jackson
68 min
4
A Warning To The Curious by M. R. James
75 min
5
Casting The Runes by M. R. James
74 min
6
The Smoke Ghost by Fritz Leiber
52 min
7
The Topley Place Sale by A. N. L. Munby
36 min
8
The Cairn on The Headland by Robert E. Howard
76 min
9
The Judge's House by Bram Stoker
72 min
10
The Vampyre by John Polidori
74 min
11
The Ghostly Rental by Henry James
106 min
12
The Black Widow by John Glasby
65 min
13
The Tarroo-Ushtey by Nigel Kneale
41 min
14
The Shadow on The Moor by Stuart Strauss
73 min
15
Wake Not The Dead by Ernst Raupach
99 min
16
The Beast In The Cave by H. P. Lovecraft
51 min
17
Three Miles Up by Elizabeth Jane Howard
63 min
18
The Second Passenger by Basil Copper
37 min
19
The Premonition by Lewis Darley
77 min
20
The Red Lodge by H R Wakefield
47 min
21
The Irtonwood Ghost by Elinor Glyn
57 min
22
The Story Of The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton by ...
30 min
23
A Strange Christmas Game by Charlotte Riddell
46 min
24
Bone to His Bone by E. G. Swain
42 min
25
Couching At The Door by D K Broster
101 min