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
The Beast In The Cave by H. P. Lovecraft
51 min
102
Three Miles Up by Elizabeth Jane Howard
63 min
103
The Second Passenger by Basil Copper
37 min
104
The Premonition by Lewis Darley
77 min
105
The Red Lodge by H R Wakefield
47 min
106
The Irtonwood Ghost by Elinor Glyn
57 min
107
The Story Of The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton by ...
30 min
108
A Strange Christmas Game by Charlotte Riddell
46 min
109
Bone to His Bone by E. G. Swain
42 min
110
Couching At The Door by D K Broster
101 min
111
The Gardener by E F Benson
51 min
112
The Horror Under Penmire by Adrian Cole
75 min
113
The Haunted Haven by A. Erskine Ellis
50 min
114
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
75 min
115
The Horror at Chilton Castle
57 min
116
Back From The Grave by Robert Silverberg
57 min
117
The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner
32 min
118
The Beast of Averoigne by Clark Ashton Smith
44 min
119
Good Lady Ducayne by M E Braddon
83 min
120
The Hand of M R James by Sarah Tolmie
99 min
121
The Crimson Weaver by R. Murray Gilchrist
37 min
122
The Lost Room by Fitz James O'Brien
74 min
123
The Struwwelpeter by Tony Walker
62 min
124
The Werewolf by Eugene Field
28 min
125
Whitewash and The Empty Berth by Rose Macauley
56 min