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!
1
The Hollow Man by Thomas Burke
51 min
2
A Visitor from Down Under by L. P. Hartley
60 min
3
Old Man's Beard by H. Russell Wakefield
62 min
4
The Little Ghost by Hugh Walpole
57 min
5
The Victim by May Sinclair
72 min
6
The Monolith by Tony Walker
39 min
7
The True Story of Anthony Ffryar by Arthur Gray
43 min
8
How Pan Came to Little Ingleton by Margery Lawr...
85 min
9
Rose Rose by Barry Pain
38 min
10
The Clock by W F Harvey
44 min
11
The Lost Ghost (1903) by Mary E Wilkins
68 min
12
Squire Toby's Will by J S Le Fanu
95 min
13
The Confession of Charles Linkworth by E F Benson
68 min
14
Members Only Episode July 2025
45 min
15
The Friends of the Friends by Henry James
90 min
16
The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott
66 min
17
The Squire's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
72 min
18
The Roll-Call of the Reef by Sir Arthur Quiller...
57 min
19
The Symposium of the Gorgon by Clark Ashton Smith
49 min
20
The Red Room by H G Wells
64 min
21
The Book by Margaret Irwin
76 min
22
The Withered Heart by G G Pendarves
92 min
23
Huguenin's Wife by P M Shiel
54 min
24
Clairvoyance by D K Broster
76 min
25
In The Woods by Amyas Northcote
61 min