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
101
Couching At The Door by D K Broster
101 min
102
The Gardener by E F Benson
51 min
103
The Horror Under Penmire by Adrian Cole
75 min
104
The Haunted Haven by A. Erskine Ellis
50 min
105
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
75 min
106
The Horror at Chilton Castle
57 min
107
Back From The Grave by Robert Silverberg
57 min
108
The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner
32 min
109
The Beast of Averoigne by Clark Ashton Smith
44 min
110
Good Lady Ducayne by M E Braddon
83 min
111
The Hand of M R James by Sarah Tolmie
99 min
112
The Crimson Weaver by R. Murray Gilchrist
37 min
113
The Lost Room by Fitz James O'Brien
74 min
114
The Struwwelpeter by Tony Walker
62 min
115
The Werewolf by Eugene Field
28 min
116
Whitewash and The Empty Berth by Rose Macauley
56 min
117
Schalken The Painter by J Sheridan Le Fanu
83 min
118
The House of The Dead Hand by Edith Wharton
94 min
119
The New Catacomb by Arthur Conan Doyle
56 min
120
All Hallows by Walter de La Mare
102 min
121
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aung...
71 min
122
Negotium Perambulans by E. F. Benson
74 min
123
The Horror of The Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle
56 min
124
The Room In The Tower by E F Benson (2023 Recor...
45 min
125
The Deadfall by Ted Hughes
64 min