Back Along The Old Track, a folk horror tale of the English Countryside Back Along The Old Track is a folk horror story set in rural Kent. It’s interesting to see how ghost and horror stories keep returning to the English...
The Housekeeper by Marjorie Bowen The Housekeeper is set in 1710 in Georgian London where two vile people, Mr “Beau” Sekforde, a once handsome adventurer, and his raddled Countess wife hate each other. But he hides a secret even deeper than...
On The Brighton Road by Richard Middleton A classic English ghost story of a man down on his luck who tramps the snowy road to Brighton. If you liked On The Brighton Road, why not try Man-Sized in Marble? Richard Middleton’s...
Cynthia Asquith was the author of many ghost stories and the editor of the Pan Ghost Story Book series. In this story, set on a foggy London night, a man comes across a strange shop full of curios and antiques. Cynthia...
The Experiment by M R James is a short ghost story that tells of treachery and retribution. Set in East Anglia in the 18th Century or so, from the language, it was one of the last ghost stories written by James...
Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk is the tale of what happens when a bored man wanders too far into the desolate marshes on the loneliest night of the year....
A Christmas Meeting by Rosemary Timperley: A Christmas Meeting by Rosemary Timperley [/expand] Further Links If you liked A Christmas Meeting, why not listen to another short Christmas Ghost Story Smee? A link to Rosemary Timperley’s author page on Tripod, which...
Smee by A M Burrage is consistently rated as one of the scariest Christmas Stories there is. It has it all: a large Country House, Christmas Eve, a group of people who don’t know each other and a reason to be...
Between The Lights Between The Lights by E F Benson is one of his short stories set at Christmas in an English Country House. It is not completely a ghost story, but more a piece of weird fiction where a vision...
Saviourgate by Russell Kirk: Saviourgate by Russell Kirk is a Christmas story of hope and redemption, set in a cosy English pub on Christmas Eve. Not everything is as it first seems for our Canadian visitor. Check out Behind the Stumps...