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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A Visitor from Down Under by L. P. Hartley
60 min
27
Old Man's Beard by H. Russell Wakefield
62 min
28
The Little Ghost by Hugh Walpole
57 min
29
The Victim by May Sinclair
72 min
30
The Monolith by Tony Walker
39 min
31
The True Story of Anthony Ffryar by Arthur Gray
43 min
32
How Pan Came to Little Ingleton by Margery Lawr...
85 min
33
Rose Rose by Barry Pain
38 min
34
The Clock by W F Harvey
44 min
35
The Lost Ghost (1903) by Mary E Wilkins
68 min
36
Squire Toby's Will by J S Le Fanu
95 min
37
The Confession of Charles Linkworth by E F Benson
68 min
38
Members Only Episode July 2025
45 min
39
The Friends of the Friends by Henry James
90 min
40
The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott
66 min
41
The Squire's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
72 min
42
The Roll-Call of the Reef by Sir Arthur Quiller...
57 min
43
The Symposium of the Gorgon by Clark Ashton Smith
49 min
44
The Red Room by H G Wells
64 min
45
The Book by Margaret Irwin
76 min
46
The Withered Heart by G G Pendarves
92 min
47
Huguenin's Wife by P M Shiel
54 min
48
Clairvoyance by D K Broster
76 min
49
In The Woods by Amyas Northcote
61 min
50
The Open Door by Margaret Oliphant
141 min