The Old Portrait by Hume Nisbet The Old Portrait is a very short, but effective vampire story set on Christmas Eve. The writer Hume Nisbet was a Scottish writer and artist and he makes use of his knowledge of art techniques...
The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards The Phantom Coach was published in 1864 by Amelia Edwards, a prolific and successful writer. It’s a lovely story that really breaks into three parts. The first is the protagonist lost in the wild,...
The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce is considered one of the masterpieces of American ghost fiction. The skilful use Bierce makes of three narrators, all of them unreliable and the presence of of the fourth person who was at the scene...
The Open Door by Charlotte Riddell The Open Door is a classic Victorian ghost story. Or is it? It’s a well-written yarn about a young man who needs to make his fortune and does so by taking a job no one...
The Yellow Wallpaper The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a classic tale of American weird fiction which can be understood either as a woman haunted by a monstrous thing in the wallpaper or as her descending into sheer madness....
The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe The Tell Tale Heart is a Classic Edgar Allen Poe story of over the top madness and melodrama. Very entertaining indeed! It was a great pleasure for me to read. I hope you...
Carmilla Part 2 is Classic Ghost Stories Podcast’s second episode of J Sheridan Le Fanu’s original sensual vampire novella. Set in remote Styria in a romantic castle, Laura receives nocturnal visits from the sinister sapphic Carmilla! If you liked the reading...