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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The Work of Evil by William Croft Dickinson
41 min
102
The Shadow In The Corner by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
79 min
103
The Quest of Iranon by H. P. Lovecraft
20 min
104
The Quincunx by Walter De La Mare
43 min
105
The Garside Fell Disaster by L T C Rolt
33 min
106
The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
73 min
107
The Triumph of Night by Edith Wharton
80 min
108
No. 11 Welham Square by Sir Herbert Stephen
57 min
109
The Stranger of the Night by Edgar Wallace
42 min
110
Where Angels Fear by Manly Wade Wells
42 min
111
The Ghost of A Hand by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
40 min
112
The Telephone by Mary Treadgold
45 min
113
Playmates by A. M. Burrage
84 min
114
In The Tube by E. F. Benson
79 min
115
A Dead Finger by Sabine Baring Gould
79 min
116
Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon
59 min
117
Who Knows? by Guy du Maupassant
47 min
118
The Daemon Lover by Shirley Jackson
68 min
119
A Warning To The Curious by M. R. James
75 min
120
Casting The Runes by M. R. James
74 min
121
The Smoke Ghost by Fritz Leiber
52 min
122
The Topley Place Sale by A. N. L. Munby
36 min
123
The Cairn on The Headland by Robert E. Howard
76 min
124
The Judge's House by Bram Stoker
72 min
125
The Vampyre by John Polidori
74 min