The House of Sounds by M P Shiel Listen to even more! Sign up for the newsletter for direct access to our full archive, member-only ad-free stories, and literary discussions at https://www.classicghost.com Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/
12 Oct 2026The Dreams in The Witch House by H P Lovecraft.mp3 Listen to even more! Sign up for the newsletter for direct access to our full archive, member-only ad-free stories, and literary discussions at https://www.classicghost.com Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https:
10 Oct 2026Listen to an atmospheric audio reading of The Family of the Vourdalak, a classic vampire story set in 18th‑century Serbia and attributed to Aleksei Tolstoy. A bleak, slow‑burning tale of family, superstition, and the undead.
10 Oct 2026The Work of Evil by William Croft Dickinson.mp3 Listen to even more! Sign up for the newsletter for direct access to our full archive, member-only ad-free stories, and literary discussions at https://www.classicghost.com Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https://www.buymeacoffee.
10 Oct 2026The Garside Fell Disaster by L T C Rolt.mp3 Listen to even more! Sign up for the newsletter for direct access to our full archive, member-only ad-free stories, and literary discussions at https://www.classicghost.com Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https://www.
10 Oct 2026The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Audiobook.mp3 Listen to even more! Sign up for the newsletter for direct access to our full archive, member-only ad-free stories, and literary discussions at https://www.classicghost.com Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https://www.
10 Oct 2026The Taroo-Ushtey by Nigel Kneale.mp3 Listen to even more! Sign up for the newsletter for direct access to our full archive, member-only ad-free stories, and literary discussions at https://www.classicghost.com Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10MN8Sk
10 Oct 2026The Beast In The Cave by H P Lovecraft.mp3 Listen to even more! Sign up for the newsletter for direct access to our full archive, member-only ad-free stories, and literary discussions at https://www.classicghost.com Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https://www.
10 Oct 2026Couching At the Door by D K Broster.mp3 Listen to even more! Sign up for the newsletter for direct access to our full archive, member-only ad-free stories, and literary discussions at https://www.classicghost.com Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https://www.buymeacoffee.
08 Oct 2026The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire by Arthur Conan Doyle.mp3 Listen to even more! Sign up for the newsletter for direct access to our full archive, member-only ad-free stories, and literary discussions at https://www.classicghost.com Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https:
08 Oct 2026Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.mp3 Listen to even more! Sign up for the newsletter for direct access to our full archive, member-only ad-free stories, and literary discussions at https://www.classicghost.com Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10MN8Sk Welcoming you
08 Oct 2026Descent into Egypt by Algernon Blackwood Complete.mp3 Listen to even more! Sign up for the newsletter for direct access to our full archive, member-only ad-free stories, and literary discussions at https://www.classicghost.com Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/
08 Oct 2026The Corpse-Rider by Lafcadio Hearn.mp3 Listen to even more! Sign up for the newsletter for direct access to our full archive, member-only ad-free stories, and literary discussions at https://www.classicghost.com Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10MN8Sk
08 Oct 2026A Fall of Snow by James Turner.mp3 Listen to even more! Sign up for the newsletter for direct access to our full archive, member-only ad-free stories, and literary discussions at https://www.classicghost.com Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/
07 Oct 2026One Two Buckle My Shoe by Nugent Barker Listen to even more! Sign up for the newsletter for direct access to our full archive, member-only ad-free stories, and literary discussions at https://www.classicghost.com Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/
07 Oct 2026Pallinghurst Barrow by Grant Allen Episode Listen to even more! Sign up for the newsletter for direct access to our full archive, member-only ad-free stories, and literary discussions at https://www.classicghost.com Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10MN8Sk Grant
07 Oct 2026The Eye of The Cat by Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond was born in 1934 in Kasauli in Punjab, India. His first novel was published when he was 22, A Room on the Roof and it won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. He specialised in short stories of which he wrote
06 Oct 2026Episode The Middle Toe of The Right Foot The Middle Toe of The Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce is a classic story of a haunted house written by the master of American fiction Ambrose Bierce who disappeared mysteriously. Southern Gothic, anyone? Listen to even more! Sign up for the newsletter
06 Oct 2026The Call of Cthulhu by H P Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu by H P Lovecraft is the foundation story, the seminal myth of the Cthulhu Cult. This recorded was supported by Gavin Critchley who has kindly let me put it up on the podcast. Of course this is my
06 Oct 2026The Crown Derby Plate - Marjorie Bowen The Crown Derby Plate by Marjorie Bowen is a classic ghost story and much requested. It has a ghost, a remote haunted house, windswept Essex marshes, a set of china and a naive and rather pushy heroine. A fun story that I enjoyed reading
06 Oct 2026Out Of The Deep by Walter de la Mare Out of the Deep by Walter De La Mare is a haunted house story, or rather the story of a haunted person living in a house with hateful memories. De La Mare was primarily a poet and he uses all his
06 Oct 2026The Time Machine by H. G. Wells was serialised in the New Review in 1895 and published in book form by William Heinemann in London the same year.
05 Oct 2026First published in The Strand Magazine, November 1898. Collected in Twelve Stories and a Dream (Macmillan, 1903) and reprinted in Weird Tales, November 1925.
05 Oct 2026Listen to The Man Whom the Trees Loved by Algernon Blackwood The Man Whom the Trees Loved by Algernon Blackwood is a classic folk horror and nature horror audiobook, read in full by Tony Walker. Set in the New Forest in England, it follows Mr and Mrs Bittacy, who settle
04 Oct 2026Listen to Number 13 by M. R. James Number 13 by M. R. James is a classic ghost story audiobook, read in full by Tony Walker, in which an unlucky room number in a Danish hotel brings a very particular kind of trouble. This Victorian-era antiquarian ghost story from
04 Oct 2026Listen to Green Tea by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Green Tea by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is the original Victorian weird tale. What is it about a certain beverage that conjures such horror? Does the green tea send you insane, or does it unlock doors that allow unpleasant things to
04 Oct 2026Listen to Thrawn Janet by R. L. Stevenson Thrawn or Twisted Janet is a tale of devilish possession written in broad Scots, and a chilling one if you can understand it. My commentary at the end has very little to do with Thrawn Janet, but it does go on at
04 Oct 2026Listen to Smee by A. M. Burrage Christmas ghost stories are a lovely tradition. At Christmas, the perfect thing is to go to an old country house and play hide and seek in the dark with your friends. Nothing could happen. But who is that on the stairs? Listen to
04 Oct 2026Listen to Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk by Frank Cowper This is a ghost story for Christmas without the usual trees, snow and holly-wrapped ghosts. It is a damp and dreary tale that seeps into your bones in the dark, just the thing for Christmas Eve, or any
04 Oct 2026The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood follows a young solicitor's clerk who is due to go away for Christmas to the Swiss Alps. He needs a break from a particularly horrifying murder case he has been involved in, and he doesn't even believe in ghosts. But
04 Oct 2026The Old Portrait by Hume Nisbet begins on Christmas Eve. You are an artist with time on your hands, and while you enjoy a glass of port and a cigar you decide to look over the old painting you bought, really for its frame. The picture itself needs a good
04 Oct 2026Between the Lights by E F Benson is a Christmas weird tale. A man goes to stay with a friend in a comfortable English country house, and the snow falls and falls. By the fire, his host begins to tell a rather unsettling story. Listen to even more! Sign up
04 Oct 2026The Snow by Hugh Walpole The Snow by Hugh Walpole is a Christmas ghost story set in a cathedral close, where a married couple sit watching the snow fall. Neither is happy, and the wife believes she is haunted. She searches for someone who can help her, but whether she
04 Oct 2026A Christmas Meeting by Rosemary Timperley A Christmas Meeting by Rosemary Timperley is a very modern story and the writing is modern but I thought that Rosemary Timperley put in some very sweet touches. And I particularly enjoyed her musings and descriptions of Christmas past. But she manages to evoke
04 Oct 2026Taig O Kane and the Corpse by Anonymous An Irish ghost story, or perhaps an Irish fairy story, where a wastrel boy compromises the reputation of a local girl and when he goes out on the road to think, he meets a party of the good folk (na daoine sidhe)
03 Oct 2026The Maid of Llyn y Fan by Anonymous The Maid of Llyn y Fan (Morwyn Llyn y Fan) is a one of the traditional Welsh fairy tales. In it we hear how the fey folk (or the tylwyth teg in Wales) are not to me messed with. They are not
03 Oct 2026Elias And The Draug by Jonas Lie A Norwegian ghost story set in the far north of Scandinavia where a fisherman comes across a traditional monster of the sea coast known as a draug. Elias and the Draug by Jonas Lie is a modern story with a traditional folk story
03 Oct 2026The Bridal Party by S Mukerji
03 Oct 2026Hansel and Gretel by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
03 Oct 2026The Taipan by Somerset Maugham The Taipan by Somerset Maugham is Set in China during British colonial rule. A Taipan was the name given to a Western trader who was particularly ruthless. Maugham paints a picture of arrogant and insufferable colonials lording it over the native Chinese. Though they try
03 Oct 2026Laura Silver Bell by J S Le Fanu In the wild moors of Northumberland a tall, dark man comes looking for pretty Laura Silver Bell. The old wise woman warns Laura that this man is not what he seems and she should not take his food or cross the running
03 Oct 2026Boomerang by Oscar Cook A story that is not for the squeamish. Set in the days of the British Empire in Borneo something nasty happens when a man tries to get his own back. Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10MN8Sk
02 Oct 2026The Curse of Mathair nan Uisgeachan by Angus Wolfe Murray A story set in the Scottish Highlands in the 1950s. A modern family get involved in an ancient Gaelic tale of the fairy folk and changelings Mathair nan Uisgeachan Scottish Gaelic for The Mother of the Waters. The name of
02 Oct 2026You may have seen that I am making all the 400 or so episodes of The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast available on this website. Some will still be members only, as that gives people something for offering me paid support so I can continue to do what I do. I
02 Oct 2026Mr Arcularis by Conrad Aiken A dying man has a remarkable recovery and decides to take a cruise liner from America to Europe to recuperate. But things are not what they seem. An interestingly weird story by a once renowned master of the weird tale.
01 Oct 2026The Ring of Thoth by Arthur Conan Doyle In a Paris museum, in the Ancient Egypt gallery, strange things are occurring. Our hero decides to visit and sit out the night to see what he might observe.
01 Oct 2026The Cigarette Case by Oliver Onions An Edwardian ghost story set in Provence, France, written by Oliver Onions and published in 1911. Some fancy free young men of independent means go wandering in the South of France and one of them encounters and old house and meets some women whom
01 Oct 2026Fullcircle by John Buchan A house that's haunted in an unusual way. This story is a beautiful delve into the Cotswolds and a visit to a haunted English manor house that leaves its mark on everyone who lives there.
01 Oct 2026Bosworth Summit Pound by L T C Rolt
01 Oct 2026A Dog in Dürer's Etching "The Knight, Death and the Devil" by Marco Denevi A knight returns home from the wars. They travel through a haunted forest until at the end of his journey the knight meets a dog. The knight disregards the dog, but the
01 Oct 2026They by Rudyard Kipling A late Victorian haunted house story with a twist. A motorist is driving through the beautiful countryside of England in the summer when he finds a secluded house. The house is wonderful. It is owned by a blind woman. She can't see what our
01 Oct 2026A Wicked Voice by Vernon Lee Set in a darkly beautiful Venice where mystery waits round the corner of every alley and lurks by the edge of every canal. Our narrator is haunted by a voice so beautiful and so hypnotic that it can kill. An obsession about the meaning
01 Oct 2026Between Sunset and Moonrise by R H Malden A spooky Edwardian story set in the lonely, and mist-ridden fenlands of the east of England. Late in the winter, a clergyman has to visit a female parishioner down a long and desolate road. He would much rather not go, but
01 Oct 2026On The Brighton Road by Richard Middleton Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10MN8Sk
01 Oct 2026The Queen of Spades by Aleksandr Pushkin Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10MN8Sk
01 Oct 2026The Corner Shop by Cynthia Asquith Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10MN8Sk
01 Oct 2026Behind the Stumps by Russell Kirk A horrific story set in New England Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10MN8Sk
01 Oct 2026A tale of phobia and darkness set in Italy The Tower by Marghanita Laski Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10MN8Sk
01 Oct 2026The Housekeeper by Marjorie Bowen Marjorie Bowen was a well-known writer of macabre stories in her day. The Housekeeper, in my opinion is an excellent story. Bowen injects some deeper meaning and subtlety into her stories so they are about more than scaring you. This story portrays a toxic
01 Oct 2026A Strange Goldfield by Guy Boothby Or simply buy me a coffee to say ta! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10MN8Sk
01 Oct 2026The Old Nurse's Story
30 Sep 2026The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs
30 Sep 2026The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce
30 Sep 2026The Horla by Guy de Maupassant
30 Sep 2026Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Complete Listen to the complete Audiobook
30 Sep 2026The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards
30 Sep 2026Mr Jones by Edith Wharton
30 Sep 2026The Sweeper by A M Burrage
30 Sep 2026Shirley Jackson's masterpiece
29 Sep 2026
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25 Sep 2026
The Residence at Whitminster" was first published in 1919 as the opening story of A Thin Ghost and Others, James's third collection of ghost tales.
14 Sep 2026
I was about to write grandly: 'Television and film occupy very little of my time these days, since most of it goes on writing, tinkering, or whatever project has opened that week.' And then I remembered we watched a lot of Grace set in Brighton and I tried
01 Sep 2026
Listen to my reading of Lot 249 by Arthur Conan Doyle for free here. From Sacred Corpse to Shuffling Monster Mummification was, in its original context, a method of guaranteeing eternal life. The elaborate rituals of embalming, the careful preservation of the body's organs, and funerary texts and
17 Aug 2026
We are back from our punishing tour of (parts of) England and Wales. You will recall that we went to Anglesey (Ynys Môn) in June, then back for a rest at home. We set off on 20 July again to Glastonbury (of course) then down to Dorset where I read
10 Aug 2026
All the mysteries and cliffhangers from the Audio Drama Ashridge are now tied up and presented for your enjoyment here in the novel version of Ashridge (The Lair of the Rabbit Man). ASHRIDGE: The land remembers. 1998: It was a hot summer followed by a rainy autumn and a cold
14 Jul 2026
It's been a warm week, though we've got a cooler breeze now But I've been taking the dogs out earlier and later in the day to dodge the heat. Reading-wise: finished Middlemarch, which I loved, and I'm nearly done with Tom
13 Jul 2026The ArchiveThe Classic Ghost Stories Podcast The Archive Every story, searchable. Find one by title, author, or the mood you’re after — then listen on YouTube. Mood Length No stories match. Try a different search or clear a filter.Classic Ghost StoriesTony Walker Hullo! I've read a lot
03 Jul 2026
July 2026 Newsletter Podcast Update I'm back from a couple of weeks in Anglesey with Sheila and the dogs. We spent the first few days visiting megalithic tombs and stone circles before the heat made that impractical and we retired to the garden instead. We were at Bryn
30 Jun 2026
https://www.patreon.com/posts/werewolf-howls-160524894?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link The werewolf is older than literature. Before anyone thought to write it down, the figure of the man who becomes a wolf moved through
08 Jun 2026
You asked and I've started a channel to explore the work of Carl Jung. If you're interested take a look!
05 Jun 2026
What I'm Reading: The Great When by Alan Moore Alan Moore needs little introduction to anyone with an interest in the darker edges of popular culture — From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the vast and extraordinary Jerusalem, which I read last year and had to take a
01 Jun 2026
The Devotee of Evil by Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961) Listen Here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/devotee-of-evil-159118637?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link The story "The Devotee of Evil" was first published
24 May 2026
You may know that in addition to ghost stories, I am very interested in languages. I found myself reading A Grammar of Proto-Germanic by Winfred P. Lehmann, as you do, one evening — which discussed the idea of languages that are built on the distinction between which things in the
20 May 2026William Bundy sent me "A Walk in the Park" and I narrated it for the most recent episode of Classic Ghost Stories. Afterwards, I sat down with him for an interview about where it came from and how he works. We had a good chat about the story,
14 May 2026
What I've Been Reading: What I've Been Reading: The Course of the Heart by M. John Harrison There is a moment early in The Course of the Heart where the narrator sits in a Cambridge front room, shaded by a tree on a bright day, with
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12 May 2026
You know the feeling. You're in a strange town. You're completely on your own. It is late, the corridor outside is silent, and you are lying in a bed that belongs to nobody. The furniture is bolted down or too heavy to move, arranged by someone
06 May 2026