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 Dead Man of Varley Grange by Anonymous
53 min
2
The House Surgeon by Rudyard Kipling
87 min
3
The Werewolf Howls by Clifford Ball
52 min
4
Gabriel Ernest by Saki
27 min
5
The Devotee of Evil by Clark Ashton Smith
69 min
6
A Ghost of the Sea by Francis Prevost
100 min
7
Hertford O'Donnells Warning by Charlotte Riddell
34 min
8
The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the ...
27 min
9
The Mystery of the Semi Detached by Edith Nesbit
8 min
10
To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt by Charles Dic...
30 min
11
A Walk in the Park by William Bundy
65 min
12
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan
43 min
13
The Moon Bog by H P Lovecraft
63 min
14
The Triumph of Death by H Russell Wakefield
37 min
15
The Death Mask by H D Everett
63 min
16
Lost Hearts by M R James
51 min
17
Midnight Express by Alfred Noyes
46 min
18
A Bottle of Perrier by Edith Wharton
77 min
19
For the Blood is the Life by F. Marion Crawford
57 min
20
The Thing Invisible by W H Hodgson
60 min
21
A Recluse by Walter de la Mare
115 min
22
The Bat by Bela Lugosi
11 min
23
The Bat by Bela Lugosi
11 min
24
The Terror of Blue John Gap by Arthur Conan Doyle
81 min
25
And No Bird Sings by E F Benson
54 min