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
Playmates by A. M. Burrage
84 min
102
In The Tube by E. F. Benson
79 min
103
A Dead Finger by Sabine Baring Gould
79 min
104
Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon
59 min
105
Who Knows? by Guy du Maupassant
47 min
106
The Daemon Lover by Shirley Jackson
68 min
107
A Warning To The Curious by M. R. James
75 min
108
Casting The Runes by M. R. James
74 min
109
The Smoke Ghost by Fritz Leiber
52 min
110
The Topley Place Sale by A. N. L. Munby
36 min
111
The Cairn on The Headland by Robert E. Howard
76 min
112
The Judge's House by Bram Stoker
72 min
113
The Vampyre by John Polidori
74 min
114
The Ghostly Rental by Henry James
106 min
115
The Black Widow by John Glasby
65 min
116
The Tarroo-Ushtey by Nigel Kneale
41 min
117
The Shadow on The Moor by Stuart Strauss
73 min
118
Wake Not The Dead by Ernst Raupach
99 min
119
The Beast In The Cave by H. P. Lovecraft
51 min
120
Three Miles Up by Elizabeth Jane Howard
63 min
121
The Second Passenger by Basil Copper
37 min
122
The Premonition by Lewis Darley
77 min
123
The Red Lodge by H R Wakefield
47 min
124
The Irtonwood Ghost by Elinor Glyn
57 min
125
The Story Of The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton by ...
30 min