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
Young Billy-Me-Lad by Annie Smith
20 min
2
Celui-là by Eleanor Scott
63 min
3
The Haunted Spinney by Elliott O'Donnell
56 min
4
The Child by L A Lewis
51 min
5
The Wishing Well by E F Benson
67 min
6
The Parlour of Futures Lost by Tony Walker
36 min
7
Through the Gates of the Silver Key by H P Love...
133 min
8
The House of Horror by Seabury Quinn
97 min
9
The Beast With Five Fingers by W F Harvey
95 min
10
The Lady and Death by Vernon Lee
73 min
11
The Bishop of Hell by Marjorie Bowen
67 min
12
The Daughters of the Late Colonel by Katherine ...
76 min
13
The Lodger in Room 16 by David Dixon
49 min
14
The Face in the Mirror by Denys Val Baker
54 min
15
An Adventure by Charlotte Moberley and Eleanor ...
223 min
16
The Open Window by Saki and The Return by R. Mu...
38 min
17
Kerfol by Edith Wharton
90 min
18
The Jolly Corner (1908) by Henry James
124 min
19
The House Behind The Wood (1928) by Richmal Cro...
62 min
20
The Horror from the Mound by Robert E. Howard
68 min
21
The Chippendale Mirror by E F Benson
49 min
22
Transition by Algernon Blackwood
32 min
23
The Vicar's Ghost by Lucy Farmer
65 min
24
The Ghost of the Cross-Roads by Frederick Manley
57 min
25
Horror — a True Tale
88 min