S0211 The Turn Of The Screw Part 2 I’m not going to say much. James’s parenthetical insertions of information interrupt the flow of his sentences. He says something, the elaborates on it, then elaborates on that and sometimes elaborates on that...
So we begin The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. I have wanted to do this story for a long time but have hesitated because it’s so long! Of course, we have read out The Beckoning Fair One, The Strange...
S0209 The Maker of Gargoyles by Clark Ashton Smith Clark Ashton Smith was born in 1893 in Long Valley, California and died in California in 1961. He began as a poet and wrote decadent, overblown Romantic poetry after the manner of...
Subscribe here, support The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast and obtain exclusive content. S0208: The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood We did the Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood as Episode 20, and there I said: Algernon Blackwood Algernon Blackwood was an English...
Bruno Schulz Bruno Schulz was a Polish writer. He was born in 1892 in Austrian Galicia. In those days that part of historical Poland was under the control of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now it is part of Ukraine. His family were...
This is a subscriber only episode, so come on and sign up at tonywalker.substack.com John Buchan: John Buchan, officially 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was born in 1875 in Perth, Scotland and died in 1940 aged only 64 in Montreal, Canada. He was...
The Fall of The House of Usher – Classic Ghost Stories Podcast has done a Poe story before: [The Tell-Tale Heart (Episode 12)] and that was fine, but the Fall of the House of Usher is, in my humble opinion, finer....
Subscribe here, support The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast and obtain exclusive content. The Twisted Wood Well, it’s the anniversary of the Podcast! The first episode The Yellow Wallpaper went up a year ago, and what a year it has been. The...
Branch Line to Benceston by Sir Andrew Caldecott Branch Line to Benceston was published in the collection Not Exactly Ghosts in 1947. He turned to writing after retirement from the Malaysian Civil Service, again like many of our ghost story writers,...
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...