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!
26
Midnight Express by Alfred Noyes
46 min
27
A Bottle of Perrier by Edith Wharton
77 min
28
For the Blood is the Life by F. Marion Crawford
57 min
29
The Thing Invisible by W H Hodgson
60 min
30
A Recluse by Walter de la Mare
115 min
31
The Bat by Bela Lugosi
11 min
32
The Bat by Bela Lugosi
11 min
33
The Terror of Blue John Gap by Arthur Conan Doyle
81 min
34
And No Bird Sings by E F Benson
54 min
35
Mezengerstein by Edgar Allan Poe
50 min
36
An Encounter in the Mist by A N L Munby
41 min
37
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas by M R James
65 min
38
The Occupant of the Room by Algernon Blackwood
54 min
39
Cwm Garon by L T C Rolt
75 min
40
The Playfellow by Lady Cynthia Asquith
78 min
41
The Skeleton Count or The Vampire Mistress by E...
65 min
42
A Message for Julia by R A Sunter
61 min
43
The Frost Fair by Tony Walker
63 min
44
The Demon King by J B Priestley
54 min
45
Boxing Night by E F Benson
57 min
46
Lucky's Grove by H Russell Wakefield
83 min
47
The Man Who Came Back by Margery Lawrence
65 min
48
The Four-Fifteen Express by Amelia B. Edwards
102 min
49
The Doll's Ghost by F. Marion Crawford
65 min
50
The Whistling Room by William Hope Hodgson
70 min