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
A Haunted House by Charles Dickens
98 min
2
Hawley Bank Foundry by L T C Rolt
85 min
3
The Dunwich Horror by H P Lovecraft
119 min
4
Twilight by Marjorie Bowen
40 min
5
Halloween Dark Ale by Tony Walker
31 min
6
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bi...
53 min
7
Phantom Silhouette by Joy Burnett
40 min
8
Bad Company be Walter de la Mare
49 min
9
Cushi by Christopher Woodforde
41 min
10
Hand in Glove by Elizabeth Bowen
51 min
11
Et Sempiternum Pereant by Charles Williams
59 min
12
The Hollow Man by Thomas Burke
51 min
13
A Visitor from Down Under by L. P. Hartley
60 min
14
Old Man's Beard by H. Russell Wakefield
62 min
15
The Little Ghost by Hugh Walpole
57 min
16
The Victim by May Sinclair
72 min
17
The Monolith by Tony Walker
39 min
18
The True Story of Anthony Ffryar by Arthur Gray
43 min
19
How Pan Came to Little Ingleton by Margery Lawr...
85 min
20
Rose Rose by Barry Pain
38 min
21
The Clock by W F Harvey
44 min
22
The Lost Ghost (1903) by Mary E Wilkins
68 min
23
Squire Toby's Will by J S Le Fanu
95 min
24
The Confession of Charles Linkworth by E F Benson
68 min
25
Members Only Episode July 2025
45 min