Classic Ghost Stories

By Tony Walker

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Gerry Carroll
 Apr 16, 2024
Wonderful selection of stories, marvellously read.


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 Nov 24, 2021


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Belinda
 Jul 12, 2021
Interesting selection of stories including some unusual ones, well read

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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! Here's a poll that helps me plan future stories, if you have the time to fill it in. It's short! https://bit.ly/gqform Get exclusive members episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barcud

Episode Date
Transition by Algernon Blackwood
Dec 20, 2024
The Vicar's Ghost by Lucy Farmer
Dec 13, 2024
The Ghost of the Cross-Roads by Frederick Manley
Dec 06, 2024
Horror — a True Tale
Nov 29, 2024
Gibbet Hill by Bram Stoker
Nov 22, 2024
Someone in the Lift by L P Hartley
Nov 13, 2024
Mrs Zant and the Ghost by Wilkie Collins
Nov 08, 2024
The Old House on Vauxhall Walk by Charlotte Riddell
Nov 01, 2024
The Dreams In The Witch House by H P Lovecraft
Oct 31, 2024
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe
Oct 25, 2024
The Underground by R. Chetwynd Hayes
Oct 18, 2024
A Haunted House by Tony Walker
Oct 12, 2024
The Family of the Vourdalak by Aleksei Tolstoy
Oct 11, 2024
Never Visit Venice by Robert Aickman
Oct 05, 2024
19 Great Hanover Street by Lillie Harris
Sep 27, 2024
Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance by M R James
Sep 21, 2024
The Walnut-Tree House by Charlotte Riddell
Sep 13, 2024
The Work of Evil by William Croft Dickinson
Sep 06, 2024
The Shadow In The Corner by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Aug 23, 2024
The Quest of Iranon by H. P. Lovecraft
Aug 16, 2024
The Quincunx by Walter De La Mare
Aug 09, 2024
The Garside Fell Disaster by L T C Rolt
Aug 02, 2024
The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
Jul 26, 2024
The Triumph of Night by Edith Wharton
Jul 19, 2024
No. 11 Welham Square by Sir Herbert Stephen
Jul 12, 2024
The Stranger of the Night by Edgar Wallace
Jul 05, 2024
Where Angels Fear by Manly Wade Wells
Jun 28, 2024
The Ghost of A Hand by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Jun 21, 2024
The Telephone by Mary Treadgold
Jun 14, 2024
Playmates by A. M. Burrage
Jun 07, 2024
In The Tube by E. F. Benson
May 31, 2024
A Dead Finger by Sabine Baring Gould
May 24, 2024
Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon
May 17, 2024
Who Knows? by Guy du Maupassant
May 10, 2024
The Daemon Lover by Shirley Jackson
May 03, 2024
A Warning To The Curious by M. R. James
Apr 26, 2024
Casting The Runes by M. R. James
Apr 19, 2024
The Smoke Ghost by Fritz Leiber
Apr 12, 2024
The Topley Place Sale by A. N. L. Munby
Apr 05, 2024
The Cairn on The Headland by Robert E. Howard
Mar 29, 2024
The Judge's House by Bram Stoker
Mar 22, 2024
The Vampyre by John Polidori
Mar 15, 2024
The Ghostly Rental by Henry James
Mar 08, 2024
The Black Widow by John Glasby
Mar 01, 2024
The Tarroo-Ushtey by Nigel Kneale
Feb 23, 2024
The Shadow on The Moor by Stuart Strauss
Feb 15, 2024
Wake Not The Dead by Ernst Raupach
Feb 09, 2024
The Beast In The Cave by H. P. Lovecraft
Feb 02, 2024
Three Miles Up by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Jan 26, 2024
The Second Passenger by Basil Copper
Jan 19, 2024
The Premonition by Lewis Darley
Jan 12, 2024
The Red Lodge by H R Wakefield
Jan 05, 2024
The Irtonwood Ghost by Elinor Glyn
Dec 29, 2023
The Story Of The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton by Charles Dickens
Dec 25, 2023
A Strange Christmas Game by Charlotte Riddell
Dec 22, 2023
Bone to His Bone by E. G. Swain
Dec 15, 2023
Couching At The Door by D K Broster
Dec 08, 2023
The Gardener by E F Benson
Dec 01, 2023
The Horror Under Penmire by Adrian Cole
Nov 24, 2023
The Haunted Haven by A. Erskine Ellis
Nov 17, 2023
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Nov 10, 2023
The Horror at Chilton Castle
Nov 03, 2023
Back From The Grave by Robert Silverberg
Oct 31, 2023
The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner
Oct 26, 2023
The Beast of Averoigne by Clark Ashton Smith
Oct 19, 2023
Good Lady Ducayne by M E Braddon
Oct 12, 2023
The Hand of M R James by Sarah Tolmie
Oct 05, 2023
The Crimson Weaver by R. Murray Gilchrist
Sep 28, 2023
The Lost Room by Fitz James O'Brien
Sep 23, 2023
The Struwwelpeter by Tony Walker
Sep 21, 2023
The Werewolf by Eugene Field
Sep 14, 2023
Whitewash and The Empty Berth by Rose Macauley
Aug 31, 2023
Schalken The Painter by J Sheridan Le Fanu
Aug 25, 2023
The House of The Dead Hand by Edith Wharton
Aug 17, 2023
The New Catacomb by Arthur Conan Doyle
Aug 10, 2023
All Hallows by Walter de La Mare
Jul 27, 2023
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by J S Le Fanu
Jul 20, 2023
Negotium Perambulans by E. F. Benson
Jul 13, 2023
The Horror of The Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle
Jun 29, 2023
The Room In The Tower by E F Benson (2023 Recording)
Jun 24, 2023
The Deadfall by Ted Hughes
Jun 22, 2023
The Golden Bough by David H Keller
Jun 15, 2023
Ringing The Changes by Robert Aickman
Jun 08, 2023
The House With The Brick-Kiln by E. F. Benson
May 25, 2023
Madam Crowl's Ghost by J S Le Fanu
May 18, 2023
The Voice In The Night by William Hope Hodgson
May 11, 2023
Honeysuckle Cottage by P. G. Wodehouse
Apr 27, 2023
The Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford
Apr 20, 2023
A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins
Apr 13, 2023
The Repairer of Reputations by Robert W. Chambers
Mar 30, 2023
The Mysterious Bride by James Hogg
Mar 24, 2023
Our Feathered Friends by Philip MacDonald
Mar 17, 2023
The Tractate Middoth: A Chillingly Haunting Ghost Story by M.R. James
Mar 10, 2023
The House and the Brain by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Feb 24, 2023
The Mistress in Black by Rosemary Timperley
Feb 17, 2023
Afterward by Edith Wharton
Feb 10, 2023
The Lonesome Place by August Derleth
Jan 20, 2023
The Shadow by E. Nesbit
Jan 13, 2023
The Chimes by Charles Dickens
Dec 31, 2022
The Shepherd by Frederick Forsyth
Dec 30, 2022
The Ghosts of Christmas Past by Tony Walker
Dec 24, 2022
Green Holly by Elizabeth Bowen
Dec 23, 2022
The Ghost of Jerry Bundler by W W Jacobs
Dec 16, 2022
A Fall of Snow by James Turner
Dec 09, 2022
The Magic Shop by H G Wells
Dec 02, 2022
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Nov 25, 2022
The Dead by James Joyce
Nov 18, 2022
The Company Of Wolves by Angela Carter
Nov 11, 2022
The Witch Door by Ray Bradbury
Nov 04, 2022
The Stalls Of Barchester Cathedral by M R James
Oct 31, 2022
The Whitehaven Bodysnatcher by Tony Walker
Oct 27, 2022
Sardonicus By Ray Russell
Oct 20, 2022
Basil Netherby By A C Benson
Oct 13, 2022
Brickett Bottom by Amyas Northcote
Oct 06, 2022
One, Two Buckle my Shoe by Nugent Barker
Sep 29, 2022
The Birds By Daphne Du Maurier Audiobook
Sep 22, 2022
The Outcast by E F Benson
Sep 16, 2022
Pallinghurst Barrow by Grant Allen
Sep 08, 2022
The Doll by Daphne du Maurier
Sep 02, 2022
A Pair of Muddy Shoes by Lennox Robinson
Aug 25, 2022
The Ghost Ship by Richard Middleton
Aug 19, 2022
The Milk White Child of Ravenglass by Tony Walker
Aug 05, 2022
The Entrance by Gerald Durrell
Jul 29, 2022
The Nameless Offspring by Clark Ashton Smith
Jul 22, 2022
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Jul 15, 2022
The Eye of The Cat by Ruskin Bond
Jul 08, 2022
A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest by Amelia B Edwards
Jul 01, 2022
The Catacomb by Peter Shilston
Jun 24, 2022
The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce
Jun 17, 2022
Mean Mr Mullins by Cathu Sahu
Jun 10, 2022
The Secret of the Vault by J Wesley Rosenquest
Jun 03, 2022
The Call of Cthulhu by H P Lovecraft
May 27, 2022
They Bite by Anthony Boucher
May 20, 2022
The Crown Derby Plate by Marjorie Bowen
May 13, 2022
How Fear Departed The Long Gallery by E F Benson
May 06, 2022
The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long
Apr 29, 2022
The Sandman by E T A Hoffman
Apr 22, 2022
Out of the Deep by Walter de la Mare
Apr 15, 2022
The Music of Erich Zann by H P Lovecraft
Apr 08, 2022
Thirteen At Table by Lord Dunsany
Apr 01, 2022
The Crowd by Ray Bradbury
Mar 25, 2022
SO311. The Man Whom The Trees Loved by Algernon Blackwood
Mar 18, 2022
S03010 The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapters 16-20
Mar 11, 2022
S0309 The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapters 13-15
Mar 04, 2022
S0308 The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapters 10-12
Feb 25, 2022
S0307 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Chapters 7-9
Feb 18, 2022
S0306 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Chapters 4-6
Feb 11, 2022
S0305 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Chapters 1-3)
Feb 04, 2022
S0304 Beyond The Door by J. Paul Suter
Jan 28, 2022
S0303 Number 13 by M R James
Jan 21, 2022
S0302 The Earlier Service by Margaret Irwin
Jan 14, 2022
S0301 The Fair Family by Tony Walker
Jan 07, 2022
S02E64 The Pleasure Pilgrims by Ella D'Arcy
Dec 31, 2021
S02E61 The Piano by Tony Walker
Dec 25, 2021
S02E60 Surprise View by Tony Walker
Dec 24, 2021
S02E63 Thrawn Janet by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dec 13, 2021
S02E62 Sir Gawain & The Green Knight
Dec 06, 2021
S02E59 Harry by Rosemary Timperley
Nov 29, 2021
S02E58 Taig O'Kane and The Corpse by Douglas Hyde
Nov 22, 2021
S02E57 Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo? by Gerald Kersh
Nov 15, 2021
S02E56 The Beast of Blanchland by Rowan Bowman
Nov 08, 2021
S02E55 The Haunting of Unit 409 by Tony Walker
Oct 31, 2021
S02E54 The Girl With The Hungry Eyes by Fritz Leiber
Oct 25, 2021
S02E53 Laura Silver Bell by J Sheridan Le Fanu
Oct 18, 2021
SO2E52 The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Oct 11, 2021
S02E51 The Pomegranate Seed by Edith Wharton
Oct 04, 2021
S0250 Dragoon by DeWayne Hayes
Sep 25, 2021
S02E49 The Night Wire by H F Arnold
Sep 18, 2021
The First Sheaf by H R Wakefield
Sep 11, 2021
S02E48 The Reluctant Bride by Iqbal Hussain
Sep 11, 2021
The Shining Pyramid by Arthur Machen
Sep 08, 2021
S02E47 W S By L P Hartley
Sep 04, 2021
S02E46 The Lodgers by Joan Aiken
Aug 28, 2021
S02E45 The Amorous Ghost by Enid Bagnold
Aug 21, 2021
S02E44 The Door In The Wall by H. G. Wells
Aug 14, 2021
S02E43 The Grey Woman by Elizabeth Gaskell Part Three.
Aug 07, 2021
S02E42 The Grey Woman by Mrs Gaskell Part Two
Jul 31, 2021
S02E41 The Grey Woman by Elizabeth Gaskell Part One
Jul 24, 2021
S02E40 The Lost Tragedy by Denis Mackail
Jul 17, 2021
S02E39 Oke of Oakhurst by Vernon Lee (Part 3)
Jul 10, 2021
S02E38 Oke of Oakhurst Part 2
Jul 03, 2021
S02E37 Oke of Oakhurst by Vernon Lee
Jun 26, 2021
S02E36 Minuke by Nigel Kneale
Jun 19, 2021
A Dog in Dürer’s Etching “The Knight, Death and the Devil” by Marco Nevi
Jun 12, 2021
S02E35 Green Tea by J Sheridan Le Fanu
Jun 05, 2021
Chimes At Midnight by Paula Readman
May 26, 2021
S01E34 The Sandwalker by Fergus Hume
May 22, 2021
S01E33 Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
May 08, 2021
The Owl by Anatole Le Braz
May 07, 2021
S02E32 Pickman's Model by H P Lovecraft
Apr 24, 2021
S02E31 The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe
Apr 10, 2021
S02E30 His Beautiful Hands by Oscar Cook
Mar 27, 2021
S02E29 Lady Ferry by Sarah Orne Jewett
Mar 13, 2021
S02E28 The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Feb 27, 2021
S02E27 The Spider by Basil Copper
Feb 13, 2021
S02E26 Music Hath Charms by L T C Rolt
Jan 30, 2021
S02E25 The Story of Salome by Amelia B Edwards
Jan 16, 2021
SE02E24 Rosalind by Richmal Crompton
Jan 01, 2021
S02E23 The Story of A Disappearance and An Appearance by M R James
Dec 25, 2020
S02E22 A Christmas Carol The Spirit of Christmas Future
Dec 24, 2020
SO2E21 A Christmas Carol: The Spirit of Christmas Present
Dec 21, 2020
S02E20 A Christmas Carol: The Spirit of Christmas Past
Dec 19, 2020
S02E19 A Christmas Carol — Marley's Ghost
Dec 12, 2020
S02E18 The Ghost of Christmas Eve by J M Barrie
Dec 05, 2020
S02E17 The Turn Of The Screw Part 8
Dec 01, 2020
S02E16 The Turn Of The Screw Part 7
Nov 30, 2020
S02E15 The Turn Of The Screw Part 6
Nov 29, 2020
S0214 The Turn Of The Screw Part 5
Nov 28, 2020
S0213 The Turn Of The Screw Part 4
Nov 21, 2020
S0212 The Turn Of The Screw Part 3
Nov 14, 2020
S0211 The Turn Of The Screw Part 2
Nov 07, 2020
S0210 The Turn of the Screw Part 1
Oct 31, 2020
S0209 The Maker of Gargoyles by Clark Ashton Smith
Oct 24, 2020
S0208 The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood
Oct 17, 2020
S0206 Sanatorium Under The Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz
Oct 03, 2020
S0201 A Journey of Little Profit by John Buchan
Sep 19, 2020
S0202 The Twisted Wood by Tony Walker
Sep 13, 2020
Episode 66 The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
Sep 13, 2020
Episode 65 Branch Line to Benceston by Sir Andrew Caldecott
Sep 06, 2020
Episode 64 Blind Man's Buff by H R Wakefield
Aug 29, 2020
Episode 63 Elias And The Draug by Jonas Lie
Aug 22, 2020
Episode 62 Snake In The Attic by Garret Johnson
Aug 15, 2020
Episode 61 The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions Part 4
Aug 08, 2020
Episode 60 The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions Part 3
Aug 01, 2020
Episode 59 The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions Part 2
Jul 25, 2020
Episode 58 The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions Part 1
Jul 18, 2020
Episode 57: The Mezzotint by M R James
Jul 11, 2020
Episode 56: The Curse of Mathair nan Uisgeachan by Angus Wolfe Murray
Jul 04, 2020
Episode 55 Boomerang by Oscar Cook
Jun 27, 2020
Episode 54: The Bridal Party by S Mukerji
Jun 20, 2020
Episode 53: Little Heart by Georgina Bruce
Jun 13, 2020
Episode 52 A Visit by Shirley Jackson
Jun 06, 2020
Episode 51 Mr Jones by Edith Wharton
May 30, 2020
Episode 50 Fullcircle by John Buchan
May 23, 2020
Episode 49 They by Rudyard Kipling
May 16, 2020
Episode 48: The Dining Room Ghost by Megan Taylor
May 09, 2020
Episode 47: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Part 2)
May 03, 2020
Episode 46 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Part 1)
May 02, 2020
Episode 45 The Men in the Snow by Alex Boast
Apr 25, 2020
Episode 44 Bosworth Summit Lock by L T C Rolt
Apr 18, 2020
Episode 43: A Strange Goldfield by Guy Boothby
Apr 12, 2020
Episode 42: The Ring of Thoth by Arthur Conan Doyle
Apr 04, 2020
Episode 41: Mr Arcularis by Conrad Aiken
Apr 04, 2020
Episode 40: The Hound by H P Lovecraft
Mar 21, 2020
Episode 39: The Taipan by W Somerset Maugham
Mar 14, 2020
Episode 38: Between Sunset and Moonrise by R H Malden
Mar 07, 2020
Episode 37: A Wicked Voice by Vernon Lee
Feb 29, 2020
Episode 36: The Cigarette Case by Oliver Onions
Feb 22, 2020
Episode 35: The Horla by Guy de Maupassant
Feb 15, 2020
Episode 34: The Queen of Spades by Aleksandr Pushkin
Feb 08, 2020
Episode 33: Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker
Feb 01, 2020
Episode 32: The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers
Jan 23, 2020
Episode 31: Back Along The Old Track by Sam Hicks
Jan 23, 2020
Episode 30: The Housekeeper by Marjorie Bowen
Jan 18, 2020
Episode 29: On The Brighton Road by Richard Middleton
Jan 11, 2020
Episode 28 The Corner Shop by Cynthia Asquith
Jan 03, 2020
Episode 27: The Experiment by M R James
Dec 31, 2019
Episode 26: A Christmas Meeting by Rosemary Timperley
Dec 26, 2019
Episode 25: The Old Portrait by Hume Nisbet
Dec 25, 2019
Episode 24: Smee by A M Burrage
Dec 24, 2019
Episode 23: Between the Lights by E F Benson
Dec 23, 2019
Episode 22: Saviourgate by Russell Kirk
Dec 21, 2019
Episode 21 Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk by Frank Cowper
Dec 13, 2019
Episode 20: The Kit-Bag by Algernon Blackwood
Dec 07, 2019
Episode 19: The Snow by Hugh Walpole
Nov 30, 2019
Episode 18: The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
Nov 23, 2019
Episode 17: Behind the Stumps by Russell Kirk
Nov 16, 2019
Epsode 16: Carmilla by J Sheridan Le Fanu (Part 3)
Nov 13, 2019
Episode 15: Carmilla by J S Le Fanu (Part 2)
Nov 09, 2019
Episode 14: Carmilla by J S Sheridan Le Fanu (Part One)
Nov 02, 2019
Episode 13 (unlucky for some): The Tower by Marghatina Laski
Oct 31, 2019
Episode 12: The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
Oct 25, 2019
Episode 11: The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs
Oct 18, 2019
Episode 10: The October Game by Ray Bradbury
Oct 16, 2019
Episode 8: The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards
Oct 11, 2019
Episode 9: The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce
Oct 05, 2019
Episode 7: Man Sized in Marble by Edith Nesbit
Oct 04, 2019
Episode 6: The Open Door by Charlotte Riddell
Sep 26, 2019
Episode 5: August Heat by W F Harvey
Sep 23, 2019
Episode 4: Bewitched by Edith Wharton
Sep 22, 2019
Episode 3: Whistle and I'll Come to You by M R James
Sep 16, 2019
Episode 2: The Room in The Tower by E F Benson
Sep 16, 2019
Episode 1: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sep 14, 2019
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Jun 01, 2019