Classic Ghost Stories Podcast - Tony Walker

The Novel of the Black Seal by Arthur Machen #audiobook #astoryaday #halloween2026

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Episode 30: The Novel of the Black Seal by Arthur Machen: classic ghost stories audio The Novel of the Black Seal was first published in 1895 as one of the interlinked tales within Arthur Machen’s episodic horror novel The Three Impostors. It has since been widely reprinted as a standalone classic of weird fiction and classic horror literature, and it sits comfortably among the best classic short stories of its period.

To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt by Charles Dickens #astoryaday #halloween2026 #audiobook

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Episode 29: To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt by Charles Dickens 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 the page. And when fate places him in the jury box at the murder trial itself, he begins to count his fellow jurymen, there there should be twelve, he counts thirteen...

Cushi by Christopher Woodforde #astoryaday #halloween2026 #audiobook

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Episode 28: Cushi by Christopher Woodforde In the chalk hills of Hertfordshire lies Rooksgate Green, where tradition runs deeper than any rector's authority. Here, the sexton Cushi Holloway has his own peculiar ways—with hymn numbers, with cats, with the rituals of the churchyard.

The Horror of the Heights by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle #astoryaday #halloween2026 #audiobook

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Episode 27: The Horror of the Heights by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A daring aviator ventures higher into the skies than anyone has gone before, expecting only the dangers of altitude and the unknown. But somewhere above the clouds, he discovers something that changes his understanding of the world around him. What he encounters in those lonely heights is something he desperately wants others to know about—before it is too late.

The Triumph of Death by H Russell Wakefield #astoryaday #halloween2026 #audiobook

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Episode 26: The Triumph of Death by H R Wakefield In a sombre Elizabethan pile above Lake Windermere, the air is thick with more than just decay. Miss Prunella Pendleham, the last of a long line, watches her companion, Amelia, wither into a gaunt and listless shadow.

12 Stories for Halloween #compilation #audiobook

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As the nights grow darker and Halloween draws near, settle in for a collection of classic tales of terror, mystery, and the supernatural. From unsettling encounters to sinister secrets lurking just beyond the familiar, these stories invite you into a world where the boundary between the living and the dead is never quite as certain as it seems. So dim the lights, make yourself comfortable, and prepare for a haunting journey into the shadows...

Topics: The Face by E F Benson · The Skeleton Count or the Vampire Mistress by Elizabeth Grey · The Thing Invisible by W H Hodgson · The Haunted Doll's House by M R James · The Dead by James Joyce · The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter

The Werewolf Howls by Clifford Ball #astoryaday #halloween2026 #audiobook

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Episode 25: The Werewolf Howls by Clifford Ball. 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 estate, has heard enough. He is a rational man. He does not believe in werewolves. He has moulded the silver bullets himself, in the cellar, as a concession to superstition — nothing more.

Bosworth Summit Pound by L T C Rolt #astoryaday #halloween2026 #audiobook

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Episode 24: Bosworth Summit Pound by L T C Rolt. “Bosworth Summit Pound” by L. T. C. Rolt is a classic English supernatural story, originally published in Sleep No More (1948). It combines an isolated canal setting, a mysterious death from the past, and a haunting that may be more than a nightmare.

The House of Sounds by M P Shiel #astoryaday #halloween2026 #audiobook

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Episode 23: The House of Sounds by M P Shiel. The House of Sounds by M. P. Shiel is a short gothic story and one of the strangest supernatural stories of the Edwardian era, read here as part of the Classic Ghost Stories Podcast. If you enjoy free classic ghost stories, or you like the dread of Bram Stoker’s contemporaries, this tale of a brass house and a roaring sea is a good place to start.

On the Brighton Road by Richard Middleton #astoryaday #halloween2026 #audiobook

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Episode 22: On the Brighton Road by Richard Middleton. On a bitter winter's night, a lonely tramp makes his way along the road to Brighton, where he encounters a mysterious fellow traveller. As the two share stories of hardship, death and the strange fate of those who wander, the tramp begins to suspect that there is something unusual about his companion.

Gabriel-Ernest by Saki #astoryaday #halloween2026 #audiobook

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Episode 21: Gabriel-Ernest by Saki. "Gabriel-Ernest" was first published in 1909 in the Westminster Gazette, and later collected in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches (1910). Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916), a writer of savage wit and supernatural unease. He was killed on the Western Front in the closing months of the Somme campaign.

Rats in the Walls by H P Lovecraft #astoryaday #halloween2026 #audiobook

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Episode 20: Rats in the Walls by H P Lovecraft. Classic Ghost Stories presents: A Story a Day ’til Halloween. As the nights draw in and autumn settles over the land, we invite you to join us for a chilling tale every day throughout October. From haunted houses and restless spirits to strange happenings, forgotten curses and tales of things that should never have been disturbed, each story will take you a little deeper into the darkness. 31 days. 31 stories.

The Bridal Party by S Mukerji #astoryaday #halloween2026 #audiobook

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Episode 19: The Bridal Party by S Mukerji. The Bridal Party by S Mukerji or Mukherjii is an Indian ghost story, or rather a series of Indian ghost stories set primarily in West Bengal. Though written as stories, they seem to be true tales of actual ghostly experiences people have had in that area around a hundred years ago. Are they true? You be the judge.

The Mystery of the Semi-detached by Edith Nesbit #astoryaday #halloween2026 #audiobook

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Episode 18: The Mystery of the Semi-Detached by Edith Nesbit. "The Mystery of the Semi-Detached" was first published in Edith Nesbit's collection Grim Tales in 1893. Edith Nesbit (1858–1924) is best remembered today as the author of 'The Railway Children' and 'Five Children and It', but she was also a prolific and accomplished writer of supernatural fiction, whose ghost stories combine suburban ordinariness with genuine dread to unsettling effect.

The Quest of Iranon by H P Lovecraft #astoryaday #halloween2026 #audiobook

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Episode 17: The Quest of Iranon by H P Lovecraft. Classic Ghost Stories presents: A Story a Day ’til Halloween. As the nights draw in and autumn settles over the land, we invite you to join us for a chilling tale every day throughout October.