
Classic Ghost Stories
Tony Walker
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
Categories: Society & Culture
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My voice has given up so I can't record a story without it sounding like a rubber tyre riding on polystyrene. So, I dug into the archives and found an old 'true ghost' / timeslip story I narrated on an H5 zoom in a closet using the H5 Zoom built in microphone. As such, forgive the audio. On 10th August 1901, two English women walked into the past. During a visit to the Palace of Versailles, on the anniversary of the French Revolution, two ordinary women saw the French Queen, Marie Antoinette sitting in the gardens in front of them, along with nobles, gardeners, houses, bridges and stones that when they went back, were no longer there. Backed up by a decade of research, the two women decided to publish their extraordinary adventure in 1910. Their timeslip experience has become known as the Ghosts of the Petit Trianon. Did these two Edwardian women actually experience time travel, or did they see the ghosts of things that had been? Previously, out of print, this is a new edition, edited and translated for the modern age, with additional material that looks at subsequent timeslip type experiences at Versailles An Adventure Ebook For You To Read Along Here's a link to a PDF I made of the book so you can read along and see where I made mistakes. An Adventure by Charlotte Moberley and Eleanor Jourdain Book Club Áine Moroney has asked me to remind you of the existence of The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast Book Club to be found on Discord. Please use this link to join. https://discord.gg/tZQrbsCf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Previous episodes
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302 - An Adventure by Charlotte Moberley and Eleanor Jourdain Fri, 14 Feb 2025
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301 - The Open Window by Saki and The Return by R. Murray Gilchrist Fri, 07 Feb 2025
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300 - Kerfol by Edith Wharton Fri, 31 Jan 2025
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299 - The Jolly Corner (1908) by Henry James Fri, 24 Jan 2025
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298 - The House Behind The Wood (1928) by Richmal Crompton Fri, 17 Jan 2025
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297 - The Horror from the Mound by Robert E. Howard Fri, 10 Jan 2025
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296 - The Chippendale Mirror by E F Benson Fri, 03 Jan 2025
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295 - Transition by Algernon Blackwood Fri, 20 Dec 2024
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294 - The Vicar's Ghost by Lucy Farmer Fri, 13 Dec 2024
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293 - The Ghost of the Cross-Roads by Frederick Manley Fri, 06 Dec 2024
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292 - Horror — a True Tale Fri, 29 Nov 2024
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291 - Gibbet Hill by Bram Stoker Fri, 22 Nov 2024
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290 - Someone in the Lift by L P Hartley Wed, 13 Nov 2024
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289 - Mrs Zant and the Ghost by Wilkie Collins Fri, 08 Nov 2024
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288 - The Old House on Vauxhall Walk by Charlotte Riddell Fri, 01 Nov 2024
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287 - The Dreams In The Witch House by H P Lovecraft Thu, 31 Oct 2024
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286 - The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe Fri, 25 Oct 2024
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285 - The Underground by R. Chetwynd Hayes Fri, 18 Oct 2024
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284 - A Haunted House by Tony Walker Sat, 12 Oct 2024
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283 - The Family of the Vourdalak by Aleksei Tolstoy Fri, 11 Oct 2024
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282 - Never Visit Venice by Robert Aickman Sat, 05 Oct 2024
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281 - 19 Great Hanover Street by Lillie Harris Fri, 27 Sep 2024
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280 - Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance by M R James Sat, 21 Sep 2024
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279 - The Walnut-Tree House by Charlotte Riddell Fri, 13 Sep 2024
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278 - The Work of Evil by William Croft Dickinson Fri, 06 Sep 2024
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277 - The Shadow In The Corner by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Fri, 23 Aug 2024
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276 - The Quest of Iranon by H. P. Lovecraft Fri, 16 Aug 2024
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275 - The Quincunx by Walter De La Mare Fri, 09 Aug 2024
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274 - The Garside Fell Disaster by L T C Rolt Fri, 02 Aug 2024
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273 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson Fri, 26 Jul 2024
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272 - The Triumph of Night by Edith Wharton Fri, 19 Jul 2024
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271 - No. 11 Welham Square by Sir Herbert Stephen Fri, 12 Jul 2024
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270 - The Stranger of the Night by Edgar Wallace Fri, 05 Jul 2024
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269 - Where Angels Fear by Manly Wade Wells Fri, 28 Jun 2024
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268 - The Ghost of A Hand by J. Sheridan Le Fanu Fri, 21 Jun 2024
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267 - The Telephone by Mary Treadgold Fri, 14 Jun 2024
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266 - Playmates by A. M. Burrage Fri, 07 Jun 2024
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265 - In The Tube by E. F. Benson Fri, 31 May 2024
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264 - A Dead Finger by Sabine Baring Gould Fri, 24 May 2024
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263 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon Fri, 17 May 2024
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262 - Who Knows? by Guy du Maupassant Fri, 10 May 2024
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261 - The Daemon Lover by Shirley Jackson Fri, 03 May 2024
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260 - A Warning To The Curious by M. R. James Fri, 26 Apr 2024
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259 - Casting The Runes by M. R. James Fri, 19 Apr 2024
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258 - The Smoke Ghost by Fritz Leiber Fri, 12 Apr 2024
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257 - The Topley Place Sale by A. N. L. Munby Fri, 05 Apr 2024
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256 - The Cairn on The Headland by Robert E. Howard Fri, 29 Mar 2024
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255 - The Judge's House by Bram Stoker Fri, 22 Mar 2024
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254 - The Vampyre by John Polidori Fri, 15 Mar 2024
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253 - The Ghostly Rental by Henry James Fri, 08 Mar 2024