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
126
The Beast of Averoigne by Clark Ashton Smith
44 min
127
Good Lady Ducayne by M E Braddon
83 min
128
The Hand of M R James by Sarah Tolmie
99 min
129
The Crimson Weaver by R. Murray Gilchrist
37 min
130
The Lost Room by Fitz James O'Brien
74 min
131
The Struwwelpeter by Tony Walker
62 min
132
The Werewolf by Eugene Field
28 min
133
Whitewash and The Empty Berth by Rose Macauley
56 min
134
Schalken The Painter by J Sheridan Le Fanu
83 min
135
The House of The Dead Hand by Edith Wharton
94 min
136
The New Catacomb by Arthur Conan Doyle
56 min
137
All Hallows by Walter de La Mare
102 min
138
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aung...
71 min
139
Negotium Perambulans by E. F. Benson
74 min
140
The Horror of The Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle
56 min
141
The Room In The Tower by E F Benson (2023 Recor...
45 min
142
The Deadfall by Ted Hughes
64 min
143
The Golden Bough by David H Keller
62 min
144
Ringing The Changes by Robert Aickman
86 min
145
The House With The Brick-Kiln by E. F. Benson
50 min
146
Madam Crowl's Ghost by J S Le Fanu
60 min
147
The Voice In The Night by William Hope Hodgson
50 min
148
Honeysuckle Cottage by P. G. Wodehouse
78 min
149
The Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford
67 min
150
A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins
65 min