Episodes 370
Avg. Duration 56m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.9 (569)
Since Jun 2019
Latest Episode Apr 2026

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Serial
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73%
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About This Podcast

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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The Triumph of Death by H Russell Wakefield

Apr 30, 2026 39m

This is for Terry Illikainen. No commentar.y As an experiment, I will do the commentary as a separate post. In a sombre Elizabethan pile above Lake Windermere, the air is thick with more than just…

The Death Mask by H D Everett

Apr 17, 2026 1h 6m

Tom Enderby is a widower who would like to remarry. There is nothing unusual in that. He has found a woman he is fond of, a gentle and pretty woman who is fond of him in return. There is nothing…

S7 Lost Hearts by M R James

Apr 15, 2026 54m

Lost Hearts by M R James (1862-1936) Join my patreon: https://patreon.com/barcud There is a house in Lincolnshire where a scholar lives alone with his books and his learning and his carefully…

S7 Midnight Express by Alfred Noyes

Apr 08, 2026 49m

On a forgotten platform at a junction no map records, a man waits for a train he half-remembers from childhood nightmares. In his hands, a battered red book falls open, again and again, to the same…

S7 A Bottle of Perrier by Edith Wharton

Apr 02, 2026 1h 19m

Join the mailing list for an occasional newsletter https://www.classicghost.com/#/portal A man arrives at a desert fortress to visit an old friend. The friend is not there. The English servant says…

S7 For the Blood is the Life by F. Marion Crawford

Mar 26, 2026 1h

The moon lifts off the water and climbs the sky over Calabria. Two men sit on the stones of an old tower above the coast, sipping the local wine, basking in the warm dark. Below them, where the rock…

S7 The Thing Invisible by W H Hodgson

Mar 20, 2026 1h 1m

In an old private chapel attached to a country house, a trusted servant keeps night watch beside the ancient altar, alone behind a locked door. By morning he is found dead, a dagger from the chapel’s…

S7 A Recluse by Walter de la Mare

Mar 13, 2026 1h 58m

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 light as if reluctant to let the evening come. The…

S7 The Bat by Bela Lugosi

Mar 10, 2026 12m Bonus

Link to Audio version “The Bat” is a short horror monologue recorded by Bela Lugosi, built around his spoken persona rather than a conventional plot. In it he addresses the listener directly and…

S7 The Bat by Bela Lugosi

Mar 10, 2026 12m Bonus

Link to Audio version “The Bat” is a short horror monologue recorded by Bela Lugosi, built around his spoken persona rather than a conventional plot. In it he addresses the listener directly and…

S7 The Terror of Blue John Gap by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mar 06, 2026 1h 24m

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 family's reluctance to discuss the valley below.…

And No Bird Sings by E F Benson

Feb 27, 2026 57m

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 wings – only a strange dimming of the light, and a…

S7 Mezengerstein by Edgar Allan Poe

Feb 20, 2026 53m

Two noble houses. Centuries of hatred. A prophecy that may mean nothing—or everything. In medieval Hungary, the young Baron Metzengerstein encounters a horse—gigantic, fiery-colored, unlike any…

An Encounter in the Mist by A N L Munby

Feb 16, 2026 45m

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 path vanishes; every familiar landmark dissolves…

S7 The Treasure of Abbot Thomas by M R James

Feb 13, 2026 1h 8m

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 for centuries. Mr. Somerton, a scholar with a…

S7 The Occupant of the Room by Algernon Blackwood

Feb 06, 2026 57m

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. A room whose previous tenant, an Englishwoman,…

Cwm Garon by L T C Rolt

Jan 30, 2026 1h 18m

Sponsored by the generosity of Gavin Critchley. Thanks, Gavin! The valley of Cwm Garon is a place of ancient ruins and emerald meadows, tucked deep within the Welsh Borderland. When John Carfax first…

The Playfellow by Lady Cynthia Asquith

Jan 23, 2026 1h 21m

Lichen Hall is the perfect English country mansion, a veritable rural paradise—a Tudor house of mellow beauty that has been carefully restored after the fire that claimed a child's life twelve years…

The Skeleton Count or The Vampire Mistress by Elizabeth Grey

Jan 16, 2026 1h 8m

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 Vampire Mistress In the shadowed corridors of a remote castle,…

A Message for Julia by R A Sunter

Jan 13, 2026 1h 1m Bonus

Jean-Pierre Ducharme and Ms. Esmeralda Spinoza are experts in the delicate architecture of the séance. Inside the stillness of Julia Silverman’s game room, they prepare to reach across the divide…

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