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
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S02E49 The Night Wire by H F Arnold
41 min
252
The First Sheaf by H R Wakefield
26 min
253
S02E48 The Reluctant Bride by Iqbal Hussain
54 min
254
The Shining Pyramid by Arthur Machen
64 min
255
S02E47 W S By L P Hartley
48 min
256
S02E46 The Lodgers by Joan Aiken
61 min
257
S02E45 The Amorous Ghost by Enid Bagnold
26 min
258
S02E44 The Door In The Wall by H. G. Wells
55 min
259
S02E43 The Grey Woman by Elizabeth Gaskell Part...
63 min
260
S02E42 The Grey Woman by Mrs Gaskell Part Two
54 min
261
S02E41 The Grey Woman by Elizabeth Gaskell Part...
63 min
262
S02E40 The Lost Tragedy by Denis Mackail
51 min
263
S02E39 Oke of Oakhurst by Vernon Lee (Part 3)
51 min
264
S02E38 Oke of Oakhurst Part 2
44 min
265
S02E37 Oke of Oakhurst by Vernon Lee
60 min
266
S02E36 Minuke by Nigel Kneale
34 min
267
A Dog in Dürer’s Etching “The Knight, Death and...
40 min
268
S02E35 Green Tea by J Sheridan Le Fanu
130 min
269
Chimes At Midnight by Paula Readman
66 min
270
S01E34 The Sandwalker by Fergus Hume
54 min
271
S01E33 Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
52 min
272
The Owl by Anatole Le Braz
21 min
273
S02E32 Pickman's Model by H P Lovecraft
56 min
274
S02E31 The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe
46 min
275
S02E30 His Beautiful Hands by Oscar Cook
34 min