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
151
The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner
32 min
152
The Beast of Averoigne by Clark Ashton Smith
44 min
153
Good Lady Ducayne by M E Braddon
83 min
154
The Hand of M R James by Sarah Tolmie
99 min
155
The Crimson Weaver by R. Murray Gilchrist
37 min
156
The Lost Room by Fitz James O'Brien
74 min
157
The Struwwelpeter by Tony Walker
62 min
158
The Werewolf by Eugene Field
28 min
159
Whitewash and The Empty Berth by Rose Macauley
56 min
160
Schalken The Painter by J Sheridan Le Fanu
83 min
161
The House of The Dead Hand by Edith Wharton
94 min
162
The New Catacomb by Arthur Conan Doyle
56 min
163
All Hallows by Walter de La Mare
102 min
164
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aung...
71 min
165
Negotium Perambulans by E. F. Benson
74 min
166
The Horror of The Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle
56 min
167
The Room In The Tower by E F Benson (2023 Recor...
45 min
168
The Deadfall by Ted Hughes
64 min
169
The Golden Bough by David H Keller
62 min
170
Ringing The Changes by Robert Aickman
86 min
171
The House With The Brick-Kiln by E. F. Benson
50 min
172
Madam Crowl's Ghost by J S Le Fanu
60 min
173
The Voice In The Night by William Hope Hodgson
50 min
174
Honeysuckle Cottage by P. G. Wodehouse
78 min
175
The Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford
67 min