Classic Ghost Stories
Podcast

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

398 episodes

A weekly fiction podcast bringing you classic ghost stories, horror stories, and weird tales in audio form. Most episodes feature classic stories from the masters of the supernatural: cosy Edwardian ghost stories (E. F. Benson, Walter de la Mare), Victorian supernatural mysteries (M. R. James, Elizabeth Gaskell, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens), and 20th‑century Weird Tales (Robert Aickman, Fritz Leiber, Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft), wandering from the Gothic to the Odd, even to the Literary, and back again. Occasionally, we feature living authors – but the majority are dead. Some, perhaps, are undead. Each story is followed by Tony’s commentary on the tale, its author, themes, and literary context – which can be especially useful for students and anyone curious about the history of ghost stories.

What this show covers

Arthur Machenclassic horrorsupernatural mysteryweird fictionWelsh folkloreLovecraftsupernatural fictioncosmic horrorCthulhu MythosHalloween

What listeners will find here

A winter London encounter opens onto one of weird fiction’s colder classics
Arthur Machen’s The Novel of the Black Seal follows Miss Lally from a chance meeting in London into Professor Gregg’s unsettling investigation of vanished people, strange writing, and an unreadable black stone. It promises a classic horror tale where scholarship, folklore, and ancient dread converge.
Lovecraft’s Vermont nightmare unfolds in a slow-burn Halloween special
The Whisperer in Darkness follows scholar Albert Wilmarth as folklore, letters, and mounting dread pull him toward the remote hills of Vermont. This Halloween episode promises classic cosmic horror, eerie atmosphere, and one of Lovecraft’s key Cthulhu Mythos stories.

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