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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Hand in Glove by Elizabeth Bowen
51 min
52
Et Sempiternum Pereant by Charles Williams
59 min
53
The Hollow Man by Thomas Burke
51 min
54
A Visitor from Down Under by L. P. Hartley
60 min
55
Old Man's Beard by H. Russell Wakefield
62 min
56
The Little Ghost by Hugh Walpole
57 min
57
The Victim by May Sinclair
72 min
58
The Monolith by Tony Walker
39 min
59
The True Story of Anthony Ffryar by Arthur Gray
43 min
60
How Pan Came to Little Ingleton by Margery Lawr...
85 min
61
Rose Rose by Barry Pain
38 min
62
The Clock by W F Harvey
44 min
63
The Lost Ghost (1903) by Mary E Wilkins
68 min
64
Squire Toby's Will by J S Le Fanu
95 min
65
The Confession of Charles Linkworth by E F Benson
68 min
66
Members Only Episode July 2025
45 min
67
The Friends of the Friends by Henry James
90 min
68
The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott
66 min
69
The Squire's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
72 min
70
The Roll-Call of the Reef by Sir Arthur Quiller...
57 min
71
The Symposium of the Gorgon by Clark Ashton Smith
49 min
72
The Red Room by H G Wells
64 min
73
The Book by Margaret Irwin
76 min
74
The Withered Heart by G G Pendarves
92 min
75
Huguenin's Wife by P M Shiel
54 min