The Grey Ones by J B Priestley
Oct 15, 2026
A middle‑aged businessman sits in a psychiatrist’s office with a problem he can barely put into words. Something in the world has shifted, or else something in his own perception has, and the solid…
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.
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All Souls by Edith Wharton | Supernatural stories and classic horror
Oct 08, 2026
Edith Wharton's “All Souls” begins with an empty house on a winter night and a woman waiting as the snow piles up. Written six months before Wharton's death, this final completed work of fiction is…
The Residence at Whitminster by M R James
Oct 01, 2026
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The prebendal residence at Whitminster stands in the shadow of its great collegiate church, solid, respectable, and comfortable. A young Irish…
The Wind in the Rose-Bush by Mary E Wilkins Freeman
Sep 24, 2026
An unmarried schoolteacher crosses a river by ferry to collect her dead sister's daughter from the girl's stepmother, a woman with china-blue eyes and a smile that is hiding something.
Nobody in…
The Mummy's Foot by Theophile Gautier
Sep 18, 2026
In a quiet curiosity shop in Paris, a shelf holds a collection of objects from another time. Our protagonist notices a small object that at first appears to be the broken foot of a Greek statue. The…
Lost in a Pyramid, or The Mummy's Curse by Lousia May Alcot
Sep 11, 2026
A young woman sits for a portrait, turning over a small gold box while her fiancé paints. Inside: three scarlet seeds, brought back from a place he'd rather forget. He warns her the story behind them…
Lot 249 by Arthur Conan Doyle
Sep 04, 2026
This was a request, but fitted in with my current interest in mummies.
Read my full notes on the history of the Egyptian Mummy in Horror…
The Haunted Dolls House by M R James
Aug 21, 2026
Kindly commissioned and sponsored by Gavin Critchley for his friend Victoria, a lover of dolls' houses...
A collector buys a Gothic dolls' house for sixty guineas — a museum piece, the dealer calls…
The Face by E F Benson
Aug 14, 2026
London, in the full weight of a June heatwave. The kind of golden, breathless afternoon that makes a fortunate woman feel especially fortunate.
And Hester Ward is fortunate. She knows it. A husband…
A Professor of Egyptology by Guy Boothby
Aug 07, 2026
Cairo, in the winter season, when the wealthy of Europe come for the warmth and the ruins. A young woman falls under the spell of a scholar unlike any other — a man treated with strange deference by…
The Dead Man of Varley Grange by Anonymous
Jul 31, 2026
A young officer receives a Christmas invitation to an old country house in Westernshire. His friend, hearing the name, begs him not to go.
He goes anyway.
There are things in that house that…
The House Surgeon by Rudyard Kipling
Jul 24, 2026
A bright, modern house in the south of England. No history of violence. No death on the premises. And yet something lives in it — not a ghost, not a presence you could name, but a weight that settles…
The Werewolf Howls by Clifford Ball
Jul 16, 2026
In the vineyards of the Château Doré, something has been moving at night. The workers whisper of a wolf — enormous, grey, and wantonly destructive — and Monsieur Etienne Delacroix, master of the…
Gabriel Ernest by Saki
Jul 09, 2026
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…
The Devotee of Evil by Clark Ashton Smith
Jul 03, 2026
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…
A Ghost of the Sea by Francis Prevost
Jul 01, 2026
On the Cornish coast, a man is dying by the sea. He has chosen to be there, and he knows why, and he is willing — with one exception — to let the world draw its own conclusions. The exception is a…
Hertford O'Donnells Warning by Charlotte Riddell
Jul 01, 2026
Gerard Street, Soho. A winter's night. A surgeon sits alone by his fire, a practical man — a man who has cut through flesh and bone without flinching, who has long since made his peace with whatever…
The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth by Rhoda Broughton
Jul 01, 2026
There is a house in Mayfair. Charming, freshly decorated, inexplicably cheap. The landlord asks no questions. The neighbours say nothing. But the grocer at the corner of the street has noticed…
The Mystery of the Semi Detached by Edith Nesbit
Jul 01, 2026
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
Jul 01, 2026
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…
A Walk in the Park by William Bundy
Jul 01, 2026
There 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 many years. A boy watches from a…
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan
Jul 01, 2026
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 Moon Bog by H P Lovecraft
May 07, 2026
There is a bog in County Meath that the old people will not speak of after dark. They know, as old people in such places always know, that certain ground is not waste ground simply because nothing…
The Triumph of Death by H Russell Wakefield
Apr 30, 2026
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
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…
Lost Hearts by M R James
Apr 15, 2026
Lost Hearts by M R James (1862-1936)
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There is a house in Lincolnshire where a scholar lives alone with his books and his learning and his carefully…
Midnight Express by Alfred Noyes
Apr 08, 2026
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…
A Bottle of Perrier by Edith Wharton
Apr 02, 2026
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A man arrives at a desert fortress to visit an old friend. The friend is not there. The English servant says…
For the Blood is the Life by F. Marion Crawford
Mar 26, 2026
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…
The Thing Invisible by W H Hodgson
Mar 20, 2026
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…