Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
1) The Four-Fifteen Express by Amelia B. Edwards
The Four-Fifteen Express, a Christmas Ghost Story by Amelia B. Edwards A fantastic story by the very competent Victorian writer, Amelia B. Edwards. This story was published in the 1866 Christmas numb...Show More
2) The Doll's Ghost by F. Marion Crawford
A dollmaker works late into the evening to repair a broken doll. Outside, London's fog presses against the windows. Inside, in the dim workshop light, something moves among the shelvesâsomething that...Show More
3) The Whistling Room by William Hope Hodgson
In Ireland, a newly purchased castle unsettles its American owner. He is wealthy, engaged to a local woman, and certain that jealous countrymen mean him harm. What truly threatens the household is a p...Show More
4) A Haunted House by Charles Dickens
A neglected Georgian house, shutters still, poplars trees surround it, whispering. Downstairs is a row of servant bells to call servants. One has a mysterious name and is reputed to ring when no one i...Show More
5) Hawley Bank Foundry by L T C Rolt
Beneath the soot and iron of Englandâs industrial heart, a foundry lies silent. Its furnaces once roared for empire, but the men are gone, the machinery rusted, the sand floor undisturbed. When war co...Show More
6) The Dunwich Horror by H P Lovecraft
A remote New England village. Dark rumours swirl among its lonely hills. Whispers of strange rites, of a family line touched by shadows, haunt the woods and starlit nights. Something stirs where the o...Show More
7) Twilight by Marjorie Bowen
Twilight opens in a garden where beauty wears a mask to protect it from the years, and twilight brings regrets and confessions. A young courtier stumbles upon a Duchess at duskâpainted, jewelled, and ...Show More
8) Halloween Dark Ale by Tony Walker
A northern lad takes a cheap room above a Wapping pub in â87, where the Thames presses at the windows like weather. He wants to be a journalist not a barman, but he needs the money... He learns. that ...Show More
9) An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
A man stands on a railway bridge. Orders pass along the line; the river says nothing. A watch ticks, a breath stalls, and time begins to misbehave. Memory intrudes, desire bargains, and the world narr...Show More
10) Phantom Silhouette by Joy Burnett
A lonely farmhouse stands in a hollow of the hillsâits windows dark, its doors long locked, and a story clinging to it that no one in the valley will tell aloud. When a sceptical visitor decides to sp...Show More