The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast

Tony Walker

Episodes 376
Avg. Duration 55m
Activity Active
Apple Rating 4.9 (569)
Since Jun 2019
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Schedule
Weekly
Format
Episodic
Consistency
57%
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www.spreaker.com

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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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Gabriel Ernest Episode by Saki

Jun 01, 2026 27m Transcript

Something is wrong in the woods.The artist notices him first — and says almost nothing. One remark, on the way to the station, barely above a murmur. Then the train comes, and he is gone.It falls to…

The Devotee of Evil by Clark Ashton Smith

May 29, 2026 1h 9m Transcript

There is a house in Auburn, California, with a tragic history and a new tenant. Jean Averaud has come from New Orleans with money, with books, with a beautiful mute woman who watches him with eyes…

The Mystery of the Semi Detached by Edith Nesbit

May 24, 2026 9m Transcript

A young man waits in a suburban lane for his sweetheart. She doesn't come. Walking home past her house, he finds the front door standing open, the windows dark. He goes in. He goes upstairs. He…

To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt by Charles Dickens

May 15, 2026 30m Transcript

A man reads about a murder in his morning paper over breakfast in his Piccadilly rooms. That should be the end of it. But something follows him from that reading — something that refuses to stay on…

S7 A Walk In The Park by William Bundy

May 14, 2026 1h 5m Transcript

A Walk in the Park by William BundyThere is a park at the edge of a sleeping city. A man walks through it at night — tall, cloaked, unhurried — as if he has walked this way before, many times, across…

S7 My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

May 08, 2026 43m Transcript

A man drives out to the Norfolk Broads one February night to look at a holiday bungalow. Snow is falling. The marshes are silent. Not even the waterfowl are stirring. Then, close to midnight,…

The Triumph of Death by H Russell Wakefield

Apr 30, 2026 37m Transcript

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 3m Transcript

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 51m Transcript

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 46m Transcript

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 17m Transcript

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 57m Transcript

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 Transcript

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 55m Transcript

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 11m Bonus Transcript

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 11m Bonus Transcript

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 21m Transcript

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 54m Transcript

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 50m Transcript

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 41m Transcript

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…

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