Blind Man’s Buff by Herbert Russell Wakefield H R Wakefield was born in 1888 in Sandgate, Kent, England and died 1964. He was the son of the Bishop of Birmingham. He was educated at the prestigious Marlborough College and then went...
Elias And The Draug I got this tale from Roald Dahls’ Book of Ghost Storieswhich is a very well-curated collection. Often, ghost stories collections are just a rehash of the same old tired stories, but Roald Dahl put some goodies in this...
Snake in The Attic by Garrett Johnson Garrett is an English professor in Houston Texas who is married with two boys, and has recently moved house. You now know why. We discussed whether I should do the story in a British...
Part Four of The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions Part 4 of The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onion starts off with another philosophical discourse by the unseen narrator. I’m not clear whether these are Paul Oleron’s thoughts, or the...
Part Three of The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions This section comprises parts 8, 9 and 10 of The Beckoning Fair One. I find the first section of 8 a bit long, and if I’d been his editor, I would...
Part Two of The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions The first part of section five of The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions has him sitting in the house listening to the noises and from nowhere he begins to muse...
The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions Because this story is actually a novella, I am splitting it probably into three episodes much as I did for Carmilla by J Sheridan Le Fanu. I’m doing The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver...
M R James This is the third story we’ve done by M R James, previous ones being The Experiment and Episode 3: Whistle and I’ll Come to You. We talked about James the man there. In a nutshell, he was an academic who had...
Angus Wolfe Murray Angus Wolfe Murray was born in 1937 and now lives at Traquair in the Scottish Borders. With his late wife he founded Canongate Publishers. He comes from a celebrated Scottish family and his details can be found in...
Boomerang by Oscar Cook First of all, this story was requested by Peter Denyer. To be fair he merely suggested it and I went and hunted it down, so I accept all responsiblity for the gruesomeness of it. Richard Martin Oscar...