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Classic Ghost Stories

A weekly podcast which 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 d... Read more

Warning: This podcast is a series podcast

This means episodes are recommended to be heard in order from the very start. Here's the 10 best episodes of the series anyway though!

Ranked #1

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Episode 1: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Episode 1: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

https://tonywalker.substack.com/about (Subscribe For All Episodes!)Charlotte Perkins Gilman, nee Charlotte Perkins, was ... Read more

14 Sep 2019

37mins

Ranked #2

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Episode 21 Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk by Frank Cowper

Episode 21 Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk by Frank Cowper

Christmas Eve on a haunted hulk by Frank CowperFrank Cowper  was born in 1849 and died in 1930. He was an English yachts... Read more

13 Dec 2019

55mins

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Ranked #3

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Episode 35: The Horla by Guy de Maupassant

Episode 35: The Horla by Guy de Maupassant

The Horla by Guy de MaupassantWelcome to Episode 35 of the Classic Ghost Stories Podcast!What would really help me would... Read more

15 Feb 2020

1hr 7mins

Ranked #4

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Episode 7: Man Sized in Marble by Edith Nesbit

Episode 7: Man Sized in Marble by Edith Nesbit

Edith NesbitEdith Nesbit was an English novelist born in 1858 in Kennington, which was then Surrey and is now part of Lo... Read more

4 Oct 2019

34mins

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Ranked #5

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Episode 40: The Hound by H P Lovecraft

Episode 40: The Hound by H P Lovecraft

Howard Phillips LovecraftHP Lovecraft was perhaps the most influential writer of horror and weird tales of his generatio... Read more

21 Mar 2020

30mins

Ranked #6

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Episode 14: Carmilla by J S Sheridan Le Fanu (Part One)

Episode 14: Carmilla by J S Sheridan Le Fanu (Part One)

Joseph Sheridan Le FanuJ S Le Fanu was born in Dublin to a family of mixed descent. His father’s line were French Huguen... Read more

2 Nov 2019

1hr 11mins

Ranked #7

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Episode 27: The Experiment by M R James

Episode 27: The Experiment by M R James

The Experiment by M R JamesThis is the second story we have read on the classic ghost stories podcast by Montague Rhodes... Read more

31 Dec 2019

18mins

Ranked #8

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Episode 19: The Snow by Hugh Walpole

Episode 19: The Snow by Hugh Walpole

Hugh Walpole was an English novelist born in New Zealand in 1884 and died in June 1941. His father was a clergyman and h... Read more

30 Nov 2019

24mins

Ranked #9

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Episode 39: The Taipan by W Somerset Maugham

Episode 39: The Taipan by W Somerset Maugham

William Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham was born in 1873 in Paris and died in Nice in 1965, was despite his brith an... Read more

14 Mar 2020

27mins

Ranked #10

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Episode 9: The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce

Episode 9: The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce was a prominent American author in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. He is most famous for his Devi... Read more

5 Oct 2019

29mins

Ranked #11

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Episode 37: A Wicked Voice by Vernon Lee

Episode 37: A Wicked Voice by Vernon Lee

Vernon LeeDespite sounding so masculine, Vernon Lee was actually a woman called Violet Paget, born in France in 1856 and... Read more

29 Feb 2020

1hr 15mins

Ranked #12

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Episode 8: The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards

Episode 8: The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards

Amelia Edwards was born in 1831 in London, England. As such she is one of the oldest writers we’ve read so far in this p... Read more

11 Oct 2019

36mins

Ranked #13

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Episode 25: The Old Portrait by Hume Nisbet

Episode 25: The Old Portrait by Hume Nisbet

Hume NisbetHuman Nisbet was a Scottish born novelist an artist. He was born in sterling in Scotland and was trained as a... Read more

25 Dec 2019

14mins

Ranked #14

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Episode 42: The Ring of Thoth by Arthur Conan Doyle

Episode 42: The Ring of Thoth by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan DoyleOr to give him his full name, Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born in 1859 in Edinburgh in Sco... Read more

4 Apr 2020

53mins

Ranked #15

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Episode 6: The Open Door by Charlotte Riddell

Episode 6: The Open Door by Charlotte Riddell

Charlotte Riddell was born in 1832 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. After she married she moved to London where she l... Read more

26 Sep 2019

1hr 8mins

Ranked #16

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Episode 24: Smee by A M Burrage

Episode 24: Smee by A M Burrage

Alfred McLelland BurrageBackgroundAlfred McClelland Burrage was an English writer who was born in London in 1889. Both h... Read more

24 Dec 2019

23mins

Ranked #17

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Episode 36: The Cigarette Case by Oliver Onions

Episode 36: The Cigarette Case by Oliver Onions

Oliver OnionsOliver Onions was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England in 1873 and died in Aberystwyth in Wales in 1961, Hi... Read more

22 Feb 2020

35mins

Ranked #18

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Episode 12: The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe

Episode 12: The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe

#Edgar Allen Poe#Needs no real introduction. He was in some senses the man who began the horror genre. There had been Go... Read more

25 Oct 2019

19mins

Ranked #19

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Episode 28 The Corner Shop by Cynthia Asquith

Episode 28 The Corner Shop by Cynthia Asquith

Lady Cynthia AsquithLady Cynthia Asquith, born Charteris in 1887 in Wiltshire, England was an English aristocrat, best n... Read more

3 Jan 2020

42mins

Ranked #20

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Episode 41: Mr Arcularis by Conrad Aiken

Episode 41: Mr Arcularis by Conrad Aiken

Conrad AikenConrad Aiken was an American poet and author born in Savannah, Georgia in 1889 and died in Savannah in 1973 ... Read more

4 Apr 2020

52mins

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