Classic Ghost Stories
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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 Mar...
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A Recluse by Walter de la Mare
There is a house at the end of a lane. You have seen it before — or something like it. Palladian, still, its pale stone holding the last of the May li...
The Bat by Bela Lugosi
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“The Bat” is a short horror monologue recorded by Bela Lugosi, built around his spoken persona rather than a conven...
The Bat by Bela Lugosi
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“The Bat” is a short horror monologue recorded by Bela Lugosi, built around his spoken persona rather than a conven...
The Terror of Blue John Gap by Arthur Conan Doyle
A young doctor, recovering from illness, is sent to the Derbyshire hills for his health. He takes lodgings at a remote farm, where he notices the fami...
And No Bird Sings by E F Benson
A man takes a sunlit shortcut through an English wood and finds that something is missing. There is no thrush, and no blackbird, and no rustle of wing...
Mezengerstein by Edgar Allan Poe
Two noble houses. Centuries of hatred. A prophecy that may mean nothing—or everything.
In medieval Hungary, the young Baron Metzengerstei...
An Encounter in the Mist by A N L Munby
A solitary man, lost in the Welsh hills, stumbles through thick mist—his only companion a mounting sense of unease. The landscape is indifferent; the...
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas by M R James
A mediaeval abbot leaves behind a cipher—not in his will, but scratched into the glass of his own church. The treasure it guards has lain undisturbed...
The Occupant of the Room by Algernon Blackwood
A schoolmaster arrives late at night in a remote Alpine village. The inn has no rooms. Then suddenly—there is one. A room that's occupied, yet empty....
Cwm Garon by L T C Rolt
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The valley of Cwm Garon is a place of ancient ruins and emerald meadows, t...
The Playfellow by Lady Cynthia Asquith
Lichen Hall is the perfect English country mansion, a veritable rural paradise—a Tudor house of mellow beauty that has been carefully restored after t...
The Skeleton Count or The Vampire Mistress by Elizabeth Grey
Let's go Gothick. Get your pitchfork. Get your burning brand. We're off to the castle to see the count.
The Skeleton Count; or, The Vampi...
A Message for Julia by R A Sunter
Jean-Pierre Ducharme and Ms. Esmeralda Spinoza are experts in the delicate architecture of the séance.
Inside the stillness of Julia Sil...
The Frost Fair by Tony Walker
One of my own stories. The River Thames freezes and a Frost Fair is held for the first time since 1814. Two friends meet for a pint of Dark Ale in the...
The Demon King by J B Priestley
It's Boxing Night in Bruddersford and the pantomime's a disaster waiting to happen. The company's second-rate, the theatre's half empty, and the actor...
Boxing Night by E F Benson
On Christmas Day, two sisters in a remote farmhouse in the middle of the Romney Marshes, have a dream. The snow begins to fall heavily and they are is...
Lucky's Grove by H Russell Wakefield
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Christmas at Abingdale Hall. The great house decked in festive greenery, servants bustling, family gathering from across th...
The Man Who Came Back by Margery Lawrence
Christmas at Colonel and Lady Garrison’s house is all warmth, laughter, and parlour games, until the evening’s “entertainment” arrives: a small, shabb...
The Four-Fifteen Express by Amelia B. Edwards
The Four-Fifteen Express, a Christmas Ghost Story by Amelia B. Edwards
A fantastic story by the very competent Victorian writer, Amelia B...
The Doll's Ghost by F. Marion Crawford
A dollmaker works late into the evening to repair a broken doll. Outside, London's fog presses against the windows. Inside, in the dim workshop light...
The Whistling Room by William Hope Hodgson
In Ireland, a newly purchased castle unsettles its American owner. He is wealthy, engaged to a local woman, and certain that jealous countrymen mean h...
A Haunted House by Charles Dickens
A neglected Georgian house, shutters still, poplars trees surround it, whispering. Downstairs is a row of servant bells to call servants. One has a my...
Hawley Bank Foundry by L T C Rolt
Beneath the soot and iron of England’s industrial heart, a foundry lies silent. Its furnaces once roared for empire, but the men are gone, the machine...
The Dunwich Horror by H P Lovecraft
A remote New England village. Dark rumours swirl among its lonely hills. Whispers of strange rites, of a family line touched by shadows, haunt the woo...
Twilight by Marjorie Bowen
Twilight opens in a garden where beauty wears a mask to protect it from the years, and twilight brings regrets and confessions. A young courtier stumb...
Halloween Dark Ale by Tony Walker
A northern lad takes a cheap room above a Wapping pub in ’87, where the Thames presses at the windows like weather. He wants to be a journalist not a...
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
A man stands on a railway bridge. Orders pass along the line; the river says nothing. A watch ticks, a breath stalls, and time begins to misbehave. Me...
Phantom Silhouette by Joy Burnett
A lonely farmhouse stands in a hollow of the hills—its windows dark, its doors long locked, and a story clinging to it that no one in the valley will...
Bad Company be Walter de la Mare
In a dim Underground carriage, a weary traveller meets a stranger whose silent presence unsettles more deeply than words can tell. Walter de la Mare’s...
Cushi by Christopher Woodforde
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In the chalk hills of Hertfordshire lies Rooksgate Green, where tradition runs deeper than any rect...
Hand in Glove by Elizabeth Bowen
In a fading Irish house, two sisters live with their reclusive aunt. Outwardly clever, even charming, they are burdened by secrecy, shabby finery, and...
Et Sempiternum Pereant by Charles Williams
Et in Sempiternum Pereant by Charles Williams
Lord Arglay, retired Chief Justice and seeker of forgotten knowledge, sets ou...
The Hollow Man by Thomas Burke
A man walks the London streets, thin as a shadow, his eyes open but unseeing. He has no destination, yet something leads him — as if by an unseen hand...
A Visitor from Down Under by L. P. Hartley
On a wet and foggy evening in post-war London, a man arrives at a modest hotel carrying the calm assurance of wealth and distance. But something else...
Old Man's Beard by H. Russell Wakefield
At Brinton-on-Sea, the summer passed in gentle rhythms. Mariella and her young fiancé read side by side on the beach, swam together in the quiet sea,...
The Little Ghost by Hugh Walpole
In an old house by the Glebeshire coast, silence lingers more heavily than the sound of the sea. Its walls hold an atmosphere of watchfulness, as thou...
The Victim by May Sinclair
Steven Acroyd is a jealous man—jealous, and prone to sudden, violent anger. He works in a remote country house under the quiet rule of an elderly mast...
The Monolith by Tony Walker
A narrowboat moors in Eastwick, a village cut off by time and road. Among its postcards and memories stands an ancient stone — and in every image, a s...
The True Story of Anthony Ffryar by Arthur Gray
A scholar remains behind as pestilence silences the college. The gates are locked, the chapel dim, and a single window glows with the light of somethi...
How Pan Came to Little Ingleton by Margery Lawrence
One summer Sunday in a quiet English village, something is missing—though no one can quite say what. The air hangs thick with heat, the hedgerows whis...