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!


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Fiction
Science Fiction
Drama
1
The Daughters of the Late Colonel by Katherine ...
76 min
2
The Lodger in Room 16 by David Dixon
49 min
3
The Face in the Mirror by Denys Val Baker
54 min
4
An Adventure by Charlotte Moberley and Eleanor ...
223 min
5
The Open Window by Saki and The Return by R. Mu...
38 min
6
Kerfol by Edith Wharton
90 min
7
The Jolly Corner (1908) by Henry James
124 min
8
The House Behind The Wood (1928) by Richmal Cro...
62 min
9
The Horror from the Mound by Robert E. Howard
68 min
10
The Chippendale Mirror by E F Benson
49 min
11
Transition by Algernon Blackwood
32 min
12
The Vicar's Ghost by Lucy Farmer
65 min
13
The Ghost of the Cross-Roads by Frederick Manley
57 min
14
Horror — a True Tale
88 min
15
Gibbet Hill by Bram Stoker
58 min
16
Someone in the Lift by L P Hartley
46 min
17
Mrs Zant and the Ghost by Wilkie Collins
110 min
18
The Old House on Vauxhall Walk by Charlotte Rid...
68 min
19
The Dreams In The Witch House by H P Lovecraft
139 min
20
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar A...
52 min
21
The Underground by R. Chetwynd Hayes
64 min
22
A Haunted House by Tony Walker
18 min
23
The Family of the Vourdalak by Aleksei Tolstoy
90 min
24
Never Visit Venice by Robert Aickman
105 min
25
19 Great Hanover Street by Lillie Harris
69 min