Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker 410 - The Residence at Whitminster by M R James

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!

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Classic Ghost Stories

Episodes

The Residence at Whitminster by M R James

The Wind in the Rose-Bush by Mary E Wilkins Freeman

The Mummy's Foot by Theophile Gautier

Lost in a Pyramid, or The Mummy's Curse by Lousia May Alcot

Lot 249 by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Haunted Dolls House by M R James

The Face by E F Benson

A Professor of Egyptology by Guy Boothby

The Dead Man of Varley Grange by Anonymous

The House Surgeon by Rudyard Kipling

The Werewolf Howls by Clifford Ball

Gabriel Ernest by Saki

The Devotee of Evil by Clark Ashton Smith

A Ghost of the Sea by Francis Prevost

Hertford O'Donnells Warning by Charlotte Riddell

The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth by Rhoda Broughton

The Mystery of the Semi Detached by Edith Nesbit

To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt by Charles Dickens

A Walk in the Park by William Bundy

My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

The Moon Bog by H P Lovecraft

🔒 The Companion by Ramsay Campbell

🔒 Again by Ramsey Campbell

The Triumph of Death by H Russell Wakefield

The Death Mask by H D Everett

Lost Hearts by M R James

Midnight Express by Alfred Noyes

A Bottle of Perrier by Edith Wharton

For the Blood is the Life by F. Marion Crawford

The Thing Invisible by W H Hodgson

A Recluse by Walter de la Mare

The Bat by Bela Lugosi

The Bat by Bela Lugosi

The Terror of Blue John Gap by Arthur Conan Doyle

And No Bird Sings by E F Benson

Mezengerstein by Edgar Allan Poe

An Encounter in the Mist by A N L Munby

The Treasure of Abbot Thomas by M R James

The Occupant of the Room by Algernon Blackwood

Cwm Garon by L T C Rolt

The Playfellow by Lady Cynthia Asquith

The Skeleton Count or The Vampire Mistress by Elizabeth Grey

A Message for Julia by R A Sunter

The Frost Fair by Tony Walker

The Demon King by J B Priestley

Boxing Night by E F Benson

Lucky's Grove by H Russell Wakefield

The Man Who Came Back by Margery Lawrence

The Four-Fifteen Express by Amelia B. Edwards

The Doll's Ghost by F. Marion Crawford