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
Squire Toby's Will by J S Le Fanu
95 min
2
The Confession of Charles Linkworth by E F Benson
68 min
3
Members Only Episode July 2025
45 min
4
The Friends of the Friends by Henry James
90 min
5
The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott
66 min
6
The Squire's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
72 min
7
The Roll-Call of the Reef by Sir Arthur Quiller...
57 min
8
The Symposium of the Gorgon by Clark Ashton Smith
49 min
9
The Red Room by H G Wells
64 min
10
The Book by Margaret Irwin
76 min
11
The Withered Heart by G G Pendarves
92 min
12
Huguenin's Wife by P M Shiel
54 min
13
Clairvoyance by D K Broster
76 min
14
In The Woods by Amyas Northcote
61 min
15
The Open Door by Margaret Oliphant
141 min
16
Young Billy-Me-Lad by Annie Smith
20 min
17
Celui-là by Eleanor Scott
63 min
18
The Haunted Spinney by Elliott O'Donnell
56 min
19
The Child by L A Lewis
51 min
20
The Wishing Well by E F Benson
67 min
21
The Parlour of Futures Lost by Tony Walker
36 min
22
Through the Gates of the Silver Key by H P Love...
133 min
23
The House of Horror by Seabury Quinn
97 min
24
The Beast With Five Fingers by W F Harvey
95 min
25
The Lady and Death by Vernon Lee
73 min