Classic Ghost Stories

27:58

Gabriel Ernest Episode by Saki

Classic Ghost Stories ·

2026/06/01

Something is wrong in the woods.The artist notices him first — and says almost nothing. One remark, on the way to the station, barely above a murmur. Then the train comes, and he is gone.It falls to Van Cheele to find out what his friend meant. What he discovers, by the pool in the oak coppice, is a boy with light brown eyes that hold something tigerish in them, lying in the sun with an ease that belongs to no child he has ever met.The aunt will find him charming. The dog will not stay in the

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69:35

The Devotee of Evil by Clark Ashton Smith

Classic Ghost Stories ·

2026/05/29

There is a house in Auburn, California, with a tragic history and a new tenant. Jean Averaud has come from New Orleans with money, with books, with a beautiful mute woman who watches him with eyes full of something between devotion and dread. He has come with a theory about evil — not the Devil, not sin, not the ordinary darkness of human nature, but evil as a cosmic force, a radiation from a black sun somewhere in the depths of space.And he has come with a purpose. In the old Larcom house, with its

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9:19

The Mystery of the Semi Detached by Edith Nesbit

Classic Ghost Stories ·

2026/05/24

A young man waits in a suburban lane for his sweetheart. She doesn't come. Walking home past her house, he finds the front door standing open, the windows dark. He goes in. He goes upstairs. He strikes a match. The next morning she is perfectly well, and the room he entered was locked all night, the key in her pocket.But the almanack on the mantelpiece read the 21st of October.And it was May. "The Mystery of the Semi-Detached" was first published in Edith Nesbit's collection Grim Tales in 1893

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30:24

To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt by Charles Dickens

Classic Ghost Stories ·

2026/05/15

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...Dickens wrote this story with a title that is itself a warning. Whether you take that warning as a comment on the narrator, on the law,

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65:42

A Walk In The Park by William Bundy

Classic Ghost Stories ·

2026/05/14

A Walk in the Park by William BundyThere is a park at the edge of a sleeping city. A man walks through it at night — tall, cloaked, unhurried — as if he has walked this way before, many times, across many years. A boy watches from a window. Dreams come. And something waits outside in the moonlight, patient as stone, returning with every full moon whether it is wanted or not.William Bundy's *A Walk in the Park* is a story about inheritance — the kind you don't choose.---*A Walk in the Park* is

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43:18

My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

Classic Ghost Stories ·

2026/05/08

A man drives out to the Norfolk Broads one February night to look at a holiday bungalow. Snow is falling. The marshes are silent. Not even the waterfowl are stirring. Then, close to midnight, headlamps appear on the road — a car has broken down, and a young woman is alone with an engine that won't start. He does what anyone would do.He helps. He offers whisky. He thinks nothing of it. But there is something not quite right about her. Something in the way she watches the road behind her. Something in

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66:11

The Moon Bog by H P Lovecraft

Classic Ghost Stories ·

2026/05/07

There is a bog in County Meath that the old people will not speak of after dark. They know, as old people in such places always know, that certain ground is not waste ground simply because nothing grows on it, that still water is not empty water, and that when a man of money and modern confidence arrives to improve what does not wish to be improved, the wisest thing to do is quietly leave. H. P. Lovecraft wrote "The Moon-Bog" in 1921, and it was first published in Weird Tales magazine in 1926. It

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66:37

The Death Mask by H D Everett

Classic Ghost Stories ·

2026/04/17

Tom Enderby is a widower who would like to remarry. There is nothing unusual in that. He has found a woman he is fond of, a gentle and pretty woman who is fond of him in return. There is nothing unusual in that either. What is unusual is what keeps happening to the white linen.His first wife Gloriana has been dead for four years. She asked only one thing of him before she died — a small, strange, domestic request — and he honoured it. He made no promises. He is bound by nothing. And yet. H.

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54:02

Lost Hearts by M R James

Classic Ghost Stories ·

2026/04/15

Lost Hearts by M R James (1862-1936)Join my patreon: https://patreon.com/barcud There is a house in Lincolnshire where a scholar lives alone with his books and his learning and his carefully recorded dates. He is a kind man, by all appearances — generous to orphaned children, interested in the old religions, methodical in his habits. The kind of man that academics find reliable. M. R. James wrote this story in 1895. His erudition encompassed the respectable and the less so, and he knew the

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49:06

Midnight Express by Alfred Noyes

Classic Ghost Stories ·

2026/04/08

On a forgotten platform at a junction no map records, a man waits for a train he half-remembers from childhood nightmares. In his hands, a battered red book falls open, again and again, to the same impossible picture: a tunnel mouth, a lamp, a solitary figure who will not quite turn his face to the light. As the night thickens and the pages repeat themselves, memory and prediction begin to trade places, and the question of who is watching whom will not stay safely inside the story.First published

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79:14

A Bottle of Perrier by Edith Wharton

Classic Ghost Stories ·

2026/04/02

Join the mailing list for an occasional newsletterhttps://www.classicghost.com/#/portal A man arrives at a desert fortress to visit an old friend. The friend is not there. The English servant says he will return shortly. The heat presses down. The water tastes wrong. And the waiting stretches on in ways that are difficult to explain. Edith Wharton set this story not in her usual territory of New York drawing rooms, but somewhere in North Africa, in a crumbling pile of Crusader stonework and Arab

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60:56

For the Blood is the Life by F. Marion Crawford

Classic Ghost Stories ·

2026/03/26

The moon lifts off the water and climbs the sky over Calabria.Two men sit on the stones of an old tower above the coast, sipping the local wine, basking in the warm dark. Below them, where the rock runs down toward the sea, there is a mound in the earth. One of them notices something in the gorge far below. He descends to look. The other sits, and watches, and says nothing. When the first man climbs back up, his companion turns to him quietly and asks: do you want to hear the story of what you

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61:53

The Thing Invisible by W H Hodgson

Classic Ghost Stories ·

2026/03/20

In an old private chapel attached to a country house, a trusted servant keeps night watch beside the ancient altar, alone behind a locked door. By morning he is found dead, a dagger from the chapel’s peculiar mechanism driven clean through his heart—though no human hand should have been able to strike the blow. No tracks, no witnesses, only the oppressive sense that something in that dim, little sanctuary has moved unseen. As Thomas Carnacki retraces the dead man’s final hours and tests the chapel’s

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118:23

A Recluse by Walter de la Mare

Classic Ghost Stories ·

2026/03/13

There is a house at the end of a lane. You have seen it before — or something like it. Palladian, still, its pale stone holding the last of the May light as if reluctant to let the evening come. The chestnut trees stand tall around it. The air is warm and gold and very quiet.Charles Dash stops his car. He is trespassing, he knows, but the house is empty, surely? And it is such a beautiful house. Worth seeing, if only for a few minutes. And then the car key goes missing. He cannot find it

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12:35

The Bat by Bela Lugosi

Classic Ghost Stories ·

2026/03/10

Link to Audio version “The Bat” is a short horror monologue recorded by Bela Lugosi, built around his spoken persona rather than a conventional plot. In it he addresses the listener directly and describes the bat as a creature of night and hush, a watcher at windows and eaves, half in the natural world and half in something older and less defined. The piece is more mood than story: a sequence of images about darkness, wings, and unease, letting pauses and emphases do most of the work. After

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12:35

The Bat by Bela Lugosi

Classic Ghost Stories ·

2026/03/10

Link to Audio version “The Bat” is a short horror monologue recorded by Bela Lugosi, built around his spoken persona rather than a conventional plot. In it he addresses the listener directly and describes the bat as a creature of night and hush, a watcher at windows and eaves, half in the natural world and half in something older and less defined. The piece is more mood than story: a sequence of images about darkness, wings, and unease, letting pauses and emphases do most of the work. After

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84:44

The Terror of Blue John Gap by Arthur Conan Doyle

Classic Ghost Stories ·

2026/03/06

A young doctor, recovering from illness, is sent to the Derbyshire hills for his health. He takes lodgings at a remote farm, where he notices the family's reluctance to discuss the valley below. There's a Roman mine nearby that no one acknowledges, and a particular opening in the earth that unsettles him. His diary records what starts as mild interest in local folklore. But as he explores the mine workings beneath the Blue John caverns, his entries shift. The question becomes less about what might

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57:31

And No Bird Sings by E F Benson

Classic Ghost Stories ·

2026/02/27

A man takes a sunlit shortcut through an English wood and finds that something is missing. There is no thrush, and no blackbird, and no rustle of wings – only a strange dimming of the light, and a silence that feels willed, and watchful, and almost hungry. At his friend's house the dogs will not cross the tree-line, and they bare their teeth at empty air. In the evenings, that grey band of trees seems to lie under a shadow that falls from nowhere anyone can see.There is something in the wood,

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53:53

Mezengerstein by Edgar Allan Poe

Classic Ghost Stories ·

2026/02/20

Two noble houses. Centuries of hatred. A prophecy that may mean nothing—or everything.In medieval Hungary, the young Baron Metzengerstein encounters a horse—gigantic, fiery-colored, unlike any creature in his stables. He rides it obsessively. Dawn and midnight. Sickness and health. Riveted to the saddle as if becoming one with the creature. It performs impossible feats. The servants whisper of things they cannot explain. Some souls dwell only once in flesh. After that—only the scarcely tangible

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45:45

An Encounter in the Mist by A N L Munby

Classic Ghost Stories ·

2026/02/16

A solitary man, lost in the Welsh hills, stumbles through thick mist—his only companion a mounting sense of unease. The landscape is indifferent; the path vanishes; every familiar landmark dissolves into obscurity. Rescue appears in the form of an enigmatic stranger, whose kindness feels both matter-of-fact and unsettling. A map changes hands, but the mist has a memory longer than any traveller’s, and the hills have their own way of keeping secrets. What follows is not a tale of terror, but a quiet

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