Classic Ghost Stories
Hosted by Tony Walker · Tony Walker
4.9from 1,760 ratings
- 392
- Episodes
- 120
- Transcribed
- 1,760
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 13M
- YouTube views
About Classic Ghost Stories
A weekly podcast that reads out ghost stories, horror stories, and weird tales every week. Classic stories from the pens of the masters Occasionally, we feature living authors, but the majority are dead. Some perhaps are undead. We go from cosy Edwardian ghost stories (E. F. Benson, Walter De La Mare) to Victorian supernatural mysteries (M. R. James, Elizabeth Gaskell, Bram Stoker, and Charles Dickens) to 20th-century Weird Tales (Robert Aickman, Fritz Lieber, Clark Ashton-Smith, and H. P. Lovecraft) and wander from the Gothic to the Odd, even to the Literary, and then back again. Each episode is followed by Tony's take on the story, its author, its content and any literary considerations, which may be useful to students!
- Publisher
- Tony Walker
- Category
- fiction
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Jun 2019
- Latest episode
- 18 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
120 of 392 episodes have a transcript.
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Mummy's Foot by Theophile Gautier
11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Lost in a Pyramid, or The Mummy's Curse by Lousia May Alcot
4 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Lot 249 by Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Mummy's Foot by Theophile Gautier
Published 18 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I was surprised at its lightness. It was not a foot of metal, but in sooth a foot of flesh.' An embalmed foot. A mummy's foot. On examining it still more closely, the very grain of the skin and the almost imperceptible lines impressed upon it by the texture of the bandages became perceptible. The toes were slender and delicate, and terminated by perfectly formed nails, pure and transparent as agates. […]
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- YouTube views
- 12,884,751
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 582 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 1,178 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100
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- Quality
- 74
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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