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
How Pan Came to Little Ingleton by Margery Lawr...
85 min
2
Rose Rose by Barry Pain
38 min
3
The Clock by W F Harvey
44 min
4
The Lost Ghost (1903) by Mary E Wilkins
68 min
5
Squire Toby's Will by J S Le Fanu
95 min
6
The Confession of Charles Linkworth by E F Benson
68 min
7
Members Only Episode July 2025
45 min
8
The Friends of the Friends by Henry James
90 min
9
The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott
66 min
10
The Squire's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
72 min
11
The Roll-Call of the Reef by Sir Arthur Quiller...
57 min
12
The Symposium of the Gorgon by Clark Ashton Smith
49 min
13
The Red Room by H G Wells
64 min
14
The Book by Margaret Irwin
76 min
15
The Withered Heart by G G Pendarves
92 min
16
Huguenin's Wife by P M Shiel
54 min
17
Clairvoyance by D K Broster
76 min
18
In The Woods by Amyas Northcote
61 min
19
The Open Door by Margaret Oliphant
141 min
20
Young Billy-Me-Lad by Annie Smith
20 min
21
Celui-là by Eleanor Scott
63 min
22
The Haunted Spinney by Elliott O'Donnell
56 min
23
The Child by L A Lewis
51 min
24
The Wishing Well by E F Benson
67 min
25
The Parlour of Futures Lost by Tony Walker
36 min