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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Episode 29: On The Brighton Road by Richard Mid...
14 min
327
Episode 28 The Corner Shop by Cynthia Asquith
42 min
328
Episode 27: The Experiment by M R James
18 min
329
Episode 26: A Christmas Meeting by Rosemary Tim...
9 min
330
Episode 25: The Old Portrait by Hume Nisbet
14 min
331
Episode 24: Smee by A M Burrage
23 min
332
Episode 23: Between the Lights by E F Benson
30 min
333
Episode 22: Saviourgate by Russell Kirk
40 min
334
Episode 21 Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk by F...
55 min
335
Episode 20: The Kit-Bag by Algernon Blackwood
33 min
336
Episode 19: The Snow by Hugh Walpole
24 min
337
Episode 18: The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth ...
52 min
338
Episode 17: Behind the Stumps by Russell Kirk
47 min
339
Epsode 16: Carmilla by J Sheridan Le Fanu (Part 3)
56 min
340
Episode 15: Carmilla by J S Le Fanu (Part 2)
43 min
341
Episode 14: Carmilla by J S Sheridan Le Fanu (P...
71 min
342
Episode 13 (unlucky for some): The Tower by Mar...
17 min
343
Episode 12: The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
19 min
344
Episode 11: The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs
27 min
345
Episode 10: The October Game by Ray Bradbury
24 min
346
Episode 8: The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards
36 min
347
Episode 9: The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce
29 min
348
Episode 7: Man Sized in Marble by Edith Nesbit
34 min
349
Episode 6: The Open Door by Charlotte Riddell
68 min
350
Episode 5: August Heat by W F Harvey
15 min