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
The Skeleton Count or The Vampire Mistress by E...
65 min
2
A Message for Julia by R A Sunter
61 min
3
The Frost Fair by Tony Walker
63 min
4
The Demon King by J B Priestley
54 min
5
Boxing Night by E F Benson
57 min
6
Lucky's Grove by H Russell Wakefield
83 min
7
The Man Who Came Back by Margery Lawrence
65 min
8
The Four-Fifteen Express by Amelia B. Edwards
102 min
9
The Doll's Ghost by F. Marion Crawford
65 min
10
The Whistling Room by William Hope Hodgson
70 min
11
A Haunted House by Charles Dickens
98 min
12
Hawley Bank Foundry by L T C Rolt
85 min
13
The Dunwich Horror by H P Lovecraft
119 min
14
Twilight by Marjorie Bowen
40 min
15
Halloween Dark Ale by Tony Walker
31 min
16
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bi...
53 min
17
Phantom Silhouette by Joy Burnett
40 min
18
Bad Company be Walter de la Mare
49 min
19
Cushi by Christopher Woodforde
41 min
20
Hand in Glove by Elizabeth Bowen
51 min
21
Et Sempiternum Pereant by Charles Williams
59 min
22
The Hollow Man by Thomas Burke
51 min
23
A Visitor from Down Under by L. P. Hartley
60 min
24
Old Man's Beard by H. Russell Wakefield
62 min
25
The Little Ghost by Hugh Walpole
57 min