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
26
Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance by M R James
89 min
27
The Walnut-Tree House by Charlotte Riddell
65 min
28
The Work of Evil by William Croft Dickinson
41 min
29
The Shadow In The Corner by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
79 min
30
The Quest of Iranon by H. P. Lovecraft
20 min
31
The Quincunx by Walter De La Mare
43 min
32
The Garside Fell Disaster by L T C Rolt
33 min
33
The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
73 min
34
The Triumph of Night by Edith Wharton
80 min
35
No. 11 Welham Square by Sir Herbert Stephen
57 min
36
The Stranger of the Night by Edgar Wallace
42 min
37
Where Angels Fear by Manly Wade Wells
42 min
38
The Ghost of A Hand by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
40 min
39
The Telephone by Mary Treadgold
45 min
40
Playmates by A. M. Burrage
84 min
41
In The Tube by E. F. Benson
79 min
42
A Dead Finger by Sabine Baring Gould
79 min
43
Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon
59 min
44
Who Knows? by Guy du Maupassant
47 min
45
The Daemon Lover by Shirley Jackson
68 min
46
A Warning To The Curious by M. R. James
75 min
47
Casting The Runes by M. R. James
74 min
48
The Smoke Ghost by Fritz Leiber
52 min
49
The Topley Place Sale by A. N. L. Munby
36 min
50
The Cairn on The Headland by Robert E. Howard
76 min