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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Never Visit Venice by Robert Aickman
105 min
102
19 Great Hanover Street by Lillie Harris
69 min
103
Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance by M R James
89 min
104
The Walnut-Tree House by Charlotte Riddell
65 min
105
The Work of Evil by William Croft Dickinson
41 min
106
The Shadow In The Corner by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
79 min
107
The Quest of Iranon by H. P. Lovecraft
20 min
108
The Quincunx by Walter De La Mare
43 min
109
The Garside Fell Disaster by L T C Rolt
33 min
110
The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
73 min
111
The Triumph of Night by Edith Wharton
80 min
112
No. 11 Welham Square by Sir Herbert Stephen
57 min
113
The Stranger of the Night by Edgar Wallace
42 min
114
Where Angels Fear by Manly Wade Wells
42 min
115
The Ghost of A Hand by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
40 min
116
The Telephone by Mary Treadgold
45 min
117
Playmates by A. M. Burrage
84 min
118
In The Tube by E. F. Benson
79 min
119
A Dead Finger by Sabine Baring Gould
79 min
120
Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon
59 min
121
Who Knows? by Guy du Maupassant
47 min
122
The Daemon Lover by Shirley Jackson
68 min
123
A Warning To The Curious by M. R. James
75 min
124
Casting The Runes by M. R. James
74 min
125
The Smoke Ghost by Fritz Leiber
52 min