EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast

A man is surprised to inherit a large house in Norfolk when his sinister Uncle Slade passes away. But why do awful black flies swarm in the attic? Why are ghostly white faces glimpsed in the windows? And what secrets are held in the Uncle's diary? This is an audio presentation of the story "The House on the Marsh" by Frederick Cowles (1936). It is narrated and produced by Jasper L' Estrange f...

After dinner with his detective friend, a man walks home through a poor neighbourhood and starts to feel menaced by its inhabitants. Feeling strange, he seeks refuge in a building housing an exhibition called "See the Great Unseen". His nightmare has only just begun... This is an audio presentation of the story "Unseen - Unfeared" by Francis Stevens (Gertrude Barrows Bennett), read and produced by...

Savage, bloodthirsty attacks begin to happen to those in the orbit of Angus Macbane, distant descendant of a Scottish warlock, in this hard-to-find short story by Adrian Ross (aka Arthur Reed Ropes, aka Stephen Hall) from 1887.  The story was included in the Second Pan Book of Horror Stories (1960) edited by Herbert Van Thal. Please support my work: Like what I do? Give me the fuel I need to...

Nottingham-born A.J. Alan (real name: Leslie Harrison Lambert) was a performing magician, radio ham, volunteer coastguard radio operator, and naval intelligence officer who, at the start of World War II was part of the vital military intelligence effort at Bletchley Park. Prior to the war, he was telling stories on BBC radio and became one of the most popular broadcasting personalities of the time...

The wealthy owner of a Staffordshire ironworks discovers his wife is having an affair with their friend, an artist. His discovery of their illicit tryst one fateful night leads him to a exact an horrific revenge. Jasper narrates "The Cone", an 1895 short story by H.G. Wells (anthologised in "The Plattner Story") with sound effects and music for the EnCrypted Classic Horror Podcast. Please support...

A young boy convalesces in an isolated Cornish fishing village and is told a local legend about an emissary from the darkness that punishes the desolute tenant of the Quarry House. When he returns to Polearn as an adult he discovers there may be some truth to the myths. This audiobook presentation features sound effects, music and the narration of Jasper L' Estrange.  Please support my work: Like...

Old Masson supplements his job as caretaker of a Salem cemetery with a spot of grave-robbing. Unfortunately, he's up against the giant rats...and something else...that inhabit the burrows beneath the ground.  Please support my work: Like what I do? Give me the fuel I need to create :) https://www.buymeacoffee.com/encryptedpod  https://ko-fi.com/encryptedpodcast https://www.patreon.com/en...

A young couple begin their married life by moving to a cottage built on the ruins of an old house. They soon learn of a local legend about the house and the evil knights who return there on All Saints' Eve. Written by E. Nesbit ("The Railway Children"), it was first printed in 1887 and later collected in the 1893 Nesbit anthology "Grim Tales". This audiobook presentation of "Man Size in Marble" is...

In 1690, the county of Suffolk is wracked with a fear of witches - but when Mrs Mothersole is accused of witchcraft by the lord of Castringham Hall and hanged for her supposed crimes was she really a witch? And what was the meaning of her final words: "There will be guests at the hall?"  Jasper L'Estrange reads another short story for EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast - bringing tales of...

An aspiring architect is drawn to the remote Yorkshire parish of Wet Waste-on-the-Wolds in order to study a frescoed wall in the church crypt. But the clergyman there seems strangely reluctant to let him unlock the crypt. He manages to obtain the keys - but what dark forces has he inadvertantly let loose? This audiobook is part of the EnCrypted Classic Horror Podcast series read by Jasper L'Estran...

A schoolboy is reluctantly drawn into the unhappy world of Arthur Seaton  - a bullied outsider with a domineering aunt he believes communicates  with ghosts. When their paths cross again as adults, the malignant power the aunt exercises over everyone in her thrall becomes apparent. This audiobook of Walter de la Mare's classic psychological horror story brings "Seaton's  Aunt" to vivid life with s...

A college assistant professor on forced vacation becomes intrigued by the mysterious behaviour of a tall, pale stranger at the country hotel at which he is staying. But who is the man in room 212...and why does he keep changing rooms? This  audio presentation of Julius Long's classic tale is part of the  EnCrypted Classic Horror podcast series read and produced by Jasper  L'Estrange. Fans of the c...

Boston painter Richard Upton Pickman has gained notoriety within the city's artistic circles, but caused scandal with his harrowing depictions of a demonic underworld. When he invites friend and admirer Thurber to pay a visit to his clandestine studio in the city's ramshackle and shadowy North End, the fellow jumps at the chance. But what terrible secrets lie behind Pickman's preternatural brillia...

De la Mare's dark fairytale was first published in 1923 and has been puzzling readers ever since. When seven children are sent to live with their ageing grandmother following the apparent death of their mother and father, they are warned never to play with the mysterious oak chest in the spare room. But, of course, children will be children and... This audio presentation of Walter de la Mare's cla...

If this is your first time with The Night Wire,  I will give you the headlines. Two night wire guys are receiving news reports over the wire, a job that is usually boringly mechanical, when one begins typing up increasingly desperate reports of strange (and possibly apocalyptic) events in an obscure town. What happens next? Listen to the latest episode to find out...  This telling of The...

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR! Today's story is a true horror classic: 'The Monkey's Paw' by W.W. Jacobs. An elderly couple come into possession of a magic talisman that may have the power to change their fortune. It does... but for the worse. 'EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast' brings classic short stories in the horror/supernatural/weird tradition to life (or back from the dead!) through comp...

Today's story is 'August Heat' by W.F. Harvey. In this sinister short, a London artist has an uncanny encounter with a stranger who is also strangely familiar.  This episode is part of the EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast series. Fans of the creepiest, spookiest podcasts will thrill to the immersive retellings of these nightmarish short stories from the vaults of terror, complete with co...

We launch a brand-new series of short story readings with this chilling and blackly comic classic from Saki. Written in 1909, the story of 'Gabriel-Ernest' concerns an amateur naturalist and his discovery of a wild boy in the woods.  The EnCrypted Classic Horror Podcast aims to bring these timeless stories to life with narration, sound effects and music.  Theme music: 'The Black Waltz' b...