Creepy Classics Podcast
1) How I Got These Scars
As a young student, Thelyphron took on what sounded like an easy job to make some money, but it turned out to be a lot more dangerous than he thought… Adapted from the comedic story of Thelyphron in A...Show More
2) Robin Hood's Death
A middle-aged Robin Hood is convinced a blood-letting will be the perfect cure for a chronic illness, but a mysterious old woman he meets in the woods suggests he may be about to lose too much blood… ...Show More
3) Author copies coming in!
My first author copy of Creepy Classics: Ghost Stories from Ancient Greece is here! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, ...Show More
4) Orpheus and Eurydice
When a little boy isn’t listening to his grown-ups, Nanny decides to tell him a story about what happens if you don’t listen and remember instructions that have been given to you… Inspired by Virgil, ...Show More
5) Timarchus in the Underworld
Timarchus gets more than he bargained for when he consults a mysterious oracle and finds himself in the afterlife. Inspired by Plutarch, On the Daimonion of Socrates, and followed by a discussion of a...Show More
6) The Lady in the Cupboard
The family ghost makes an appearance in George and Henry's home every Christmas, but one evening she appears unexpectedly with terrible news... Inspired by Mary Lewes, Stranger Than Fiction, this Chri...Show More
7) Orestes in Tauris
A terrible crime weighs on Orestes and he is pursued across the world by ghosts both literal and metaphorical - how can he lay these ghosts to rest? Inspired by Aeschylus, Eumenides, and Eurpides, Iph...Show More
8) The Story of Mrs Jones
WE'RE BACK! In this episode, Mrs Jones is getting really fed up of being pestered by evil spirits... Inspired by Edmund Jones, A Relation of Apparitions of Spirits in Wales and an anonymous story from...Show More
9) The Story of Glam and Grettir
An Icelandic farmer gets a new shepherd in to his haunted farm, but the cure may turn out to be worse than the disease... This story is adapted from Grettir's Saga, 32-35, and is followed by a discuss...Show More
10) The Story of the Vampire Arnold Paole
A Serbian village is plagued by an epidemic of vampires; medical doctor FlĂĽckinger wants to be skeptical, but can't deny the evidence of his own eyes... Based on Johannes FlĂĽckinger's 1732 report 'Vis...Show More