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
The Red Room by H G Wells
64 min
27
The Book by Margaret Irwin
76 min
28
The Withered Heart by G G Pendarves
92 min
29
Huguenin's Wife by P M Shiel
54 min
30
Clairvoyance by D K Broster
76 min
31
In The Woods by Amyas Northcote
61 min
32
The Open Door by Margaret Oliphant
141 min
33
Young Billy-Me-Lad by Annie Smith
20 min
34
Celui-là by Eleanor Scott
63 min
35
The Haunted Spinney by Elliott O'Donnell
56 min
36
The Child by L A Lewis
51 min
37
The Wishing Well by E F Benson
67 min
38
The Parlour of Futures Lost by Tony Walker
36 min
39
Through the Gates of the Silver Key by H P Love...
133 min
40
The House of Horror by Seabury Quinn
97 min
41
The Beast With Five Fingers by W F Harvey
95 min
42
The Lady and Death by Vernon Lee
73 min
43
The Bishop of Hell by Marjorie Bowen
67 min
44
The Daughters of the Late Colonel by Katherine ...
76 min
45
The Lodger in Room 16 by David Dixon
49 min
46
The Face in the Mirror by Denys Val Baker
54 min
47
An Adventure by Charlotte Moberley and Eleanor ...
223 min
48
The Open Window by Saki and The Return by R. Mu...
38 min
49
Kerfol by Edith Wharton
90 min
50
The Jolly Corner (1908) by Henry James
124 min