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
26
A Haunted House by Charles Dickens
98 min
27
Hawley Bank Foundry by L T C Rolt
85 min
28
The Dunwich Horror by H P Lovecraft
119 min
29
Twilight by Marjorie Bowen
40 min
30
Halloween Dark Ale by Tony Walker
31 min
31
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bi...
53 min
32
Phantom Silhouette by Joy Burnett
40 min
33
Bad Company be Walter de la Mare
49 min
34
Cushi by Christopher Woodforde
41 min
35
Hand in Glove by Elizabeth Bowen
51 min
36
Et Sempiternum Pereant by Charles Williams
59 min
37
The Hollow Man by Thomas Burke
51 min
38
A Visitor from Down Under by L. P. Hartley
60 min
39
Old Man's Beard by H. Russell Wakefield
62 min
40
The Little Ghost by Hugh Walpole
57 min
41
The Victim by May Sinclair
72 min
42
The Monolith by Tony Walker
39 min
43
The True Story of Anthony Ffryar by Arthur Gray
43 min
44
How Pan Came to Little Ingleton by Margery Lawr...
85 min
45
Rose Rose by Barry Pain
38 min
46
The Clock by W F Harvey
44 min
47
The Lost Ghost (1903) by Mary E Wilkins
68 min
48
Squire Toby's Will by J S Le Fanu
95 min
49
The Confession of Charles Linkworth by E F Benson
68 min
50
Members Only Episode July 2025
45 min