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Classic Ghost Stories — Complete Library

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Classic Ghost Stories — Complete Library

382 stories — use Ctrl+F or Cmd+F to search by title or author

This list is correct up to June 2026 and will be updated. Some stories have been removed from the podcast and YouTube channel due to copyright issues — marked REMOVED. Email tony@classicghost.com if it lags behind.

To listen, go to the Classic Ghost Stories Podcast or YouTube

Robert Aickman — REMOVED

  • Never Visit Venice
  • Ringing The Changes
  • The Hospice
  • The Waiting Room

Conrad Aiken

  • Mr Arcularis

Joan Aiken

  • The Lodgers

A J Alan

  • My Adventure in Norfolk

Grant Allen

  • Pallinghurst Barrow

Leonid Andreyev

  • Lazarus

Cynthia Asquith

  • The Corner Shop
  • The Playfellow

J G Ballard – REMOVED

  • The Dead Astronaut

Enid Bagnold

  • The Amorous Ghost

Denys Val Baker

  • The Face in the Mirror

Nugent Barker

  • One Two Buckle My Shoe

E F Benson

  • And No Bird Sings

A C Benson

  • Basil Netherby

E F Benson

  • Between the Lights
  • Boxing Night
  • How Fear Departed The Long Gallery
  • In The Tube
  • Negotium Perambulans
  • The Chippendale Mirror
  • The Confession of Charles Linkworth
  • The Gardener
  • The Outcast
  • The Room in The Tower
  • The Wishing Well

Ambrose Bierce

  • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
  • The Middle Toe of the Right Foot
  • The Moonlit Road

Algernon Blackwood

  • Descent into Egypt
  • The Empty House
  • The Kit-Bag
  • The Man Whom The Trees Loved
  • The Occupant of the Room
  • The Willows
  • Transition

Robert Bloch

  • Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper

Alex Boast

  • The Men in the Snow

Ruskin Bond

  • The Eye of The Cat

Guy Boothby

  • A Strange Goldfield

Anthony Boucher

  • They Bite

Elizabeth Bowen

  • Green Holly
  • Hand in Glove
  • Happy Autumn Fields

Marjorie Bowen

  • The Bishop of Hell
  • The Crown Derby Plate
  • The Housekeeper
  • Twilight

Rowan Bowman

  • The Beast of Blanchland

Ray Bradbury — REMOVED

  • The Crowd
  • The October Game
  • The Witch Door

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  • The Cold Embrace
  • The Good Lady Ducayne
  • The Shadow In The Corner

Anatole le Braz

  • The Owl

D K Broster

  • Clairvoyance
  • Couching At The Door

Rhoda Broughton

  • The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But The Truth

Georgina Bruce

  • Little Heart

John Buchan

  • A Journey of Little Profit
  • Fullcircle

William Bundy

  • A Walk In The Park

Thomas Burke

  • The Hollow Man

Joy Burnett

  • Phantom Silhouette

A M Burrage

  • Playmates
  • Smee
  • The Sweeper
  • The Waxworks

A S Byatt

  • The July Ghost

Andrew Caldecott

  • Branch Line to Benceston

Ramsey Campbell — REMOVED

  • Again
  • The Companion
  • The Guide

Angela Carter

  • The Company of Wolves
  • The Lady of the House of Love
  • The Snow Pavilion

Robert W Chambers

  • The Repairer of Reputations
  • The Yellow Sign

Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian

  • The Man-Wolf

R Chetwynd-Hayes

  • The Underground

Kate Chopin

  • The Story of An Hour

Agatha Christie — REMOVED

  • The Last Seance

Adrian Cole

  • The Horror Under Penmire

Wilkie Collins

  • A Terribly Strange Bed
  • Mrs Zant and the Ghost

Oscar Cook

  • Boomerang

Basil Copper

  • The Second Passenger
  • The Spider

Frank Cowper

  • Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk

F Marion Crawford

  • For the Blood is the Life
  • The Doll's Ghost
  • The Upper Berth

Richmal Crompton

  • Rosalind
  • The House Behind The Wood

Ella D'Arcy

  • The Pleasure Pilgrims
  • The Villa Lucienne

Lewis Darley

  • The Premonition

Marco Denevi

  • A Dog in Dürer's Etching

August Derleth

  • The Lonesome Place

Charles Dickens

  • A Christmas Carol
  • A Haunted House
  • The Chimes
  • The Signalman
  • The Story of The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton
  • To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt

William Croft Dickinson

  • The Work of Evil

David Dixon

  • The Lodger in Room 16

Arthur Conan Doyle

  • The Horror of the Heights
  • The Ring of Thoth
  • The Terror of Blue John Gap

Lord Dunsany

  • Thirteen At Table

Gerald Durrell

  • The Entrance

Amelia B Edwards

  • A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest
  • The Four-Fifteen Express
  • The Phantom Coach
  • The Story of Salome

A Erskine Ellis

  • The Haunted Haven

H D Everett

  • The Death Mask

J Sheridan Le Fanu

  • An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street
  • Carmilla
  • Laura Silver Bell
  • Madam Crowl's Ghost
  • Schalken The Painter
  • Squire Toby's Will
  • The Ghost of A Hand

Lucy Farmer

  • The Vicar's Ghost

William Faulkner

  • A Rose For Emily

Eugene Field

  • The Werewolf

Frederick Forsyth

  • The Shepherd

Neil Gaiman — REMOVED

  • Feeders And Eaters
  • The Thing About Cassandra

Elizabeth Gaskell

  • The Grey Woman
  • The Old Nurse's Story
  • The Squire's Story

Theophile Gautier

  • Clarimonde

R Murray Gilchrist

  • The Crimson Weaver

Saki and R Murray Gilchrist

  • The Open Window and The Return

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  • The Yellow Wallpaper

John Glasby

  • The Black Widow

Elinor Glyn

  • The Irtonwood Ghost

Sabine Baring Gould

  • A Dead Finger

Kenneth Grahame

  • The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Arthur Gray

  • The True Story of Anthony Ffryar

Elizabeth Grey

  • The Skeleton Count or The Vampire Mistress

Lafcadio Hearn

  • The Corpse Rider

Lillie Harris

  • 19 Great Hanover Street

L P Hartley

  • A Visitor from Down Under
  • Monkshood Manor
  • Someone in the Lift
  • W S

W F Harvey

  • August Heat
  • The Beast With Five Fingers
  • The Clock

John Berwick Harwood

  • Horror — a True Tale

Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Young Goodman Brown

DeWayne Hayes

  • Dragoon

Sam Hicks

  • Back Along The Old Track

William Hope Hodgson

  • The Thing Invisible
  • The Voice in The Night
  • The Whistling Room

E T A Hoffmann

  • The Sandman

James Hogg

  • The Mysterious Bride

Robert E Howard

  • The Cairn on The Headland
  • The Horror from the Mound

Elizabeth Jane Howard

  • Three Miles Up

Ted Hughes

  • The Deadfall

Fergus Hume

  • The Sand Walker

Violet Hunt

  • The Telegram

Iqbal Hussain

  • The Reluctant Bride

Washington Irving

  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Margaret Irwin

  • The Book
  • The Earlier Service

Shirley Jackson

  • A Visit
  • The Daemon Lover
  • The Haunting of Hill House
  • The Lottery

W W Jacobs

  • Jerry Bundler
  • The Monkey's Paw

M R James

  • A School Story
  • A Warning To The Curious
  • Casting The Runes
  • Lost Hearts
  • Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance
  • Number 13
  • Oh Whistle And I'll Come to You
  • The Experiment

Henry James

  • The Friends of the Friends
  • The Ghostly Rental
  • The Jolly Corner

M R James

  • The Mezzotint
  • The Rose Garden
  • The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
  • The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance
  • The Tractate Middoth
  • The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

Henry James

  • The Turn of the Screw

Sarah Orne Jewett

  • Lady Ferry

Garrett Johnson

  • The Snake In The Attic

Charlotte Moberley and Eleanor Jourdain

  • An Adventure

James Joyce

  • The Dead

David H Keller

  • The Golden Bough
  • The Horned God

Gerald Kersh

  • Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo

Stephen King — REMOVED

  • Suffer the Children
  • The Man In The Black Suit

Rudyard Kipling

  • They

Russell Kirk

  • Behind the Stumps
  • Saviourgate

Nigel Kneale

  • Minuke
  • The Tarroo-Ushtey

Henry Kuttner

  • The Graveyard Rats

Perceval Landon

  • Thurnley Abbey

Marghanita Laski

  • The Tower

Margery Lawrence

  • How Pan Came to Little Ingleton
  • The Man Who Came Back

Vernon Lee

  • A Wicked Voice
  • Oke of Okehurst
  • The Lady and Death

Fritz Leiber

  • The Girl With The Hungry Eyes
  • The Smoke Ghost

L A Lewis

  • The Child

Jonas Lie

  • Elias And The Draug

Frank Belknap Long

  • The Hounds of Tindalos

H P Lovecraft

  • Pickman's Model
  • Rats in the Walls
  • The Beast In The Cave
  • The Call of Cthulhu
  • The Dreams In The Witch House
  • The Dunwich Horror
  • The Hound
  • The Moon Bog
  • The Music of Erich Zann
  • The Quest of Iranon
  • The Statement of Randolph Carter

Lord Bulwer Lytton

  • The House and The Brain

Rose Macaulay

  • Whitewash

Philip MacDonald

  • Our Feathered Friends

Arthur Machen

  • The Great God Pan
  • The Shining Pyramid
  • The White People

Denis Mackail

  • The Lost Tragedy

R H Malden

  • Between Sunset and Moonrise

Frederick Manley

  • The Ghost of the Cross-Roads

Katherine Mansfield

  • The Daughters of the Late Colonel

Walter de la Mare

  • A Recluse
  • All Hallows
  • Bad Company
  • Out of the Deep
  • The Quincunx

Richard Marsh

  • The Beetle (Book 1 Only)

W Somerset Maugham

  • A Man From Glasgow
  • The Taipan

Guy de Maupassant

  • The Horla
  • Who Knows?

Daphne du Maurier

  • Don't Look Now
  • Rebecca
  • The Birds
  • The Doll

Richard Middleton

  • On The Brighton Road
  • The Ghost Ship

Stanley Moss – REMOVED

  • The Zombie of the Parano Alto

A N L Munby

  • An Encounter in the Mist
  • The Topley Place Sale

Vladimir Nabokov

  • A Visit to the Museum

Edith Nesbit

  • Man Sized in Marble
  • The Mystery of the Semi Detached
  • The Shadow

Hume Nisbet

  • The Old Portrait

Amyas Northcote

  • Brickett Bottom
  • In The Woods

Alfred Noyes

  • Midnight Express

Fitz James O'Brien

  • The Lost Room

Elliott O'Donnell

  • The Haunted Spinney

Margaret Oliphant

  • The Open Door

Oliver Onions

  • The Beckoning Fair One
  • The Cigarette Case

Barry Pain

  • Rose Rose

G G Pendarves

  • The Withered Heart

Edgar Allan Poe

  • Mezengerstein
  • The Black Cat
  • The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar
  • The Fall of the House of Usher
  • The Masque of the Red Death
  • The Tell Tale Heart

John Polidori

  • The Vampyre

Francis Prevost

  • A Ghost of the Sea

H P Lovecraft and E Hoffman Price

  • Through the Gates of the Silver Key

J B Priestley

  • The Demon King

Aleksandr Pushkin

  • The Queen of Spades

Arthur Quiller-Couch

  • The Roll-Call of the Reef

Seabury Quinn

  • The House of Horror

Ernst Raupach

  • Wake Not The Dead

Paula Readman

  • Chimes At Midnight

Charlotte Riddell

  • A Strange Christmas Game
  • The Old House on Vauxhall Walk
  • The Open Door
  • The Walnut-Tree House

Lennox Robinson

  • A Pair of Muddy Shoes

L T C Rolt

  • Bosworth Summit Pound
  • Cwm Garon
  • Hawley Bank Foundry
  • The Garside Fell Disaster

J Wesley Rosenquest

  • The Secret of the Vault

Ray Russell

  • Sardonicus
  • Vendetta

James Thomas Rymer

  • Varney the Vampire

Cathu Sahu

  • Mean Mr Mullins

Saki

  • Gabriel Ernest
  • The Music on the Hill
  • The Open Window

Bruno Schulz

  • Sanatorium Under The Sign of the Hourglass

Eleanor Scott

  • Celui-là

Walter Scott

  • The Tapestried Chamber

Mary Shelley

  • Frankenstein

M P Shiel

  • Huguenin's Wife

Peter Shilston

  • The Catacomb

Robert Silverberg

  • Back From The Grave

May Sinclair

  • The Victim

Isaac Bashevis Singer

  • The Black Wedding

Clark Ashton Smith

  • The Beast of Averoigne
  • The Devotee of Evil
  • The Maker of Gargoyles
  • The Nameless Offspring
  • The Symposium of the Gorgon

Annie Smith

  • Young Billy-Me-Lad

Hebert Stephen

  • No 11 Welham Square

R L Stevenson

  • Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  • The Body Snatcher
  • Thrawn Janet

Bram Stoker

  • Dracula
  • Dracula's Guest
  • Gibbet Hill
  • The Judge's House

Stuart Strauss

  • The Shadow on The Moor

R A Sunter

  • A Message for Julia

J Paul Suter

  • Beyond The Door

E G Swain

  • Bone to His Bone

Megan Taylor

  • The Dining Room Ghost

William F Temple

  • The Whispering Gallery

Rosemary Timperley

  • A Christmas Meeting
  • The Mistress in Black

Aleksei Tolstoy

  • The Family of the Vourdalak

Mary Treadgold

  • The Telephone

James Turner

  • A Fall of Snow

H R Wakefield

  • Blind Man's Buff
  • Lucky's Grove
  • Old Man's Beard
  • The First Sheaf
  • The Red Lodge
  • The Triumph of Death

Tony Walker — REMOVED

  • A Haunted House
  • Halloween Dark Ale
  • The Fair Family
  • The Frost Fair
  • The Haunting of Dungarvan Castle
  • The Milk White Child of Ravenglass
  • The Monolith
  • The Parlour of Futures Lost
  • The Sexton and The Demoiselle

Edgar Wallace

  • The Stranger of the Night

Hugh Walpole

  • The Little Ghost
  • The Snow

H B Marriott Watson

  • The Devil of the Marsh

Manly Wade Wellman

  • Where Angels Fear

H G Wells

  • The Door In The Wall
  • The Magic Shop
  • The Red Room

Edith Wharton

  • A Bottle of Perrier
  • Afterward
  • Bewitched
  • Kerfol
  • Mr Jones
  • The House of The Dead Hand
  • The Pomegranate Seed
  • The Triumph of Night

Oscar Wilde

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • The Canterville Ghost

Mary E Wilkins

  • The Lost Ghost

Charles Williams

  • Et in Sempiternum Pereant

P G Wodehouse

  • Honeysuckle Cottage

Christopher Woodforde

  • Cushi

Virginia Woolf

  • The Haunted House

Unknown

  • Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
  • The Dauntless Girl

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