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 Face in the Mirror by Denys Val Baker
54 min
102
An Adventure by Charlotte Moberley and Eleanor ...
223 min
103
The Open Window by Saki and The Return by R. Mu...
38 min
104
Kerfol by Edith Wharton
90 min
105
The Jolly Corner (1908) by Henry James
124 min
106
The House Behind The Wood (1928) by Richmal Cro...
62 min
107
The Horror from the Mound by Robert E. Howard
68 min
108
The Chippendale Mirror by E F Benson
49 min
109
Transition by Algernon Blackwood
32 min
110
The Vicar's Ghost by Lucy Farmer
65 min
111
The Ghost of the Cross-Roads by Frederick Manley
57 min
112
Horror — a True Tale
88 min
113
Gibbet Hill by Bram Stoker
58 min
114
Someone in the Lift by L P Hartley
46 min
115
Mrs Zant and the Ghost by Wilkie Collins
110 min
116
The Old House on Vauxhall Walk by Charlotte Rid...
68 min
117
The Dreams In The Witch House by H P Lovecraft
139 min
118
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar A...
52 min
119
The Underground by R. Chetwynd Hayes
64 min
120
A Haunted House by Tony Walker
18 min
121
The Family of the Vourdalak by Aleksei Tolstoy
90 min
122
Never Visit Venice by Robert Aickman
105 min
123
19 Great Hanover Street by Lillie Harris
69 min
124
Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance by M R James
89 min
125
The Walnut-Tree House by Charlotte Riddell
65 min