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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Squire Toby's Will by J S Le Fanu
95 min
27
The Confession of Charles Linkworth by E F Benson
68 min
28
Members Only Episode July 2025
45 min
29
The Friends of the Friends by Henry James
90 min
30
The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott
66 min
31
The Squire's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
72 min
32
The Roll-Call of the Reef by Sir Arthur Quiller...
57 min
33
The Symposium of the Gorgon by Clark Ashton Smith
49 min
34
The Red Room by H G Wells
64 min
35
The Book by Margaret Irwin
76 min
36
The Withered Heart by G G Pendarves
92 min
37
Huguenin's Wife by P M Shiel
54 min
38
Clairvoyance by D K Broster
76 min
39
In The Woods by Amyas Northcote
61 min
40
The Open Door by Margaret Oliphant
141 min
41
Young Billy-Me-Lad by Annie Smith
20 min
42
Celui-là by Eleanor Scott
63 min
43
The Haunted Spinney by Elliott O'Donnell
56 min
44
The Child by L A Lewis
51 min
45
The Wishing Well by E F Benson
67 min
46
The Parlour of Futures Lost by Tony Walker
36 min
47
Through the Gates of the Silver Key by H P Love...
133 min
48
The House of Horror by Seabury Quinn
97 min
49
The Beast With Five Fingers by W F Harvey
95 min
50
The Lady and Death by Vernon Lee
73 min