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In this podcast, we have a reading of an eerie tale by Hume Nisbet, in which a summer holiday goes terribly wrong when our narrator encounters The Vampire Maid... DIRECT DOWNLOAD

In this show we have a reading of an allegedly true account of the undead stalking the English countryside, the tale of the vampire of Croglin Grange! 

Another adventure for famed occult detective Mr Flaxman Low, who is called to investigate a curious and often lethal menace haunting an overgrown country house..  DIRECT DOWNLOAD

In this tale of creeping terror from Elizabeth Bowen, we visit a quiet corner of war-time London where a sinister rendezvous is about to occur...  DIRECT DOWNLOAD

From the pages of Weird Tales, a very dark and disturbing tale from Allison V Harding. DIRECT DOWNLOAD

A classic tale of ghostly terror and proto-folk horror by Flavia Richardson AKA Christine Campbell Thomson, the pioneering editor of the legendary Not At Night horror anthology series. DIRECT DOWNLOAD

In this show we start a series of readings for Women in Horror month, beginning with a very dark tale from E Nesbit, who was just as adept at crafting grim horrors for grown-ups as she as conjuring enchanting adventures for children. DIRECT DOWNLOAD

Another curious case for occult detective Mr Flaxman Low! A dining room is haunted by a perplexing and highly perilous paranormal phenomena!  DIRECT DOWNLOAD

For our final Yuletide ghost story, Mr Jim Moon relates a tale he heard many years ago in a pub just before Christmas...  DIRECT DOWNLOAD

In a very special festive edition, Mr Jim reads for you all A Christmas Carol - the complete and unabridged original text by Charles Dickens,  first published 148 years ago today on 19th December 1843!  DIRECT DOWNLOAD

No Christmas is complete without a tale from the master of ghost stories, M. R. James. And tonight we discover why some things should stay buried in The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, first published back in 1906 in Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. DIRECT DOWNLOAD

In the first of our ghost stories for Christmas this year, we have a little story set in the depths of winter and in the shadow of an ancient cathedral. It's Christmas Eve, it's snowing, and this is a truly chilling tale from Hugh Walpole! DIRECT DOWNLOAD

Another tale from the casebook of Mr Flaxman Low, the original occult detective! In this story Mr Low encounters a highly dangerous apparition that haunts a lonely road, something that's far more sinister than your usual ghost... DIRECT DOWNLOAD

A tale of terror for Hallowe'en night, first published in the pages of Weird Tales magazine back in 1924! DIRECT DOWNLOAD

In this show we have a little story from Mr Frederick Cowles from his 1936 collection The Horror of Abbot's Grange and Other Stories, a suitably seasonal tale of terror set in the month of October! DIRECT DOWNLOAD

Our final reading in our MR James mini season is coincidentally the final ghost story the good doctor ever wrote, a short piece entitled A Vignette, which many suspect may be not be a story at all but a memoir of an eerie event... DIRECT DOWNLOAD

Continuing our season of MR James readings, things take an eerie turn with some verses penned about what goes on at Great Livermore in the dead of night... DIRECT DOWNLOAD

Continuing our season of readings exploring places important to MR James, and showing a lighter side to the master of ghost stories, in this show we have a reading of the earliest surviving supernatural tale he ever wrote - a whimsical nocturnal adventure set in King's College, Cambridge. DIRECT DOWNLOAD

A strange tale of a walk upon a summer's night from MR James. Set at Eton College, this little yarn shows a more whimsical side to the  master of ghost stories... well, at first at least. DIRECT DOWNLOAD

Beginning a little summer season of readings from MR James, we start with something of a rarity - an atmospheric poem from the master of ghost stories!   DIRECT DOWNLOAD

From his 1910 collection Midnight House & Other Tales,  we bring you a story of sunlit horror by WF Harvey - August Heat! DIRECT DOWNLOAD

A classic tale of cosmic horror from Donald Wandrei, the cofounder of legendary weird fiction publisher Arkham House. Take a trip to the end of time and witness the final end of the universe itself...  DIRECT DOWNLOAD

We return to the casebook of Mr Flaxman Low, the original occult detective. In this third case, we encounter a very unusual haunting which proves to be horribly physical and highly dangerous!  DIRECT DOWNLOAD

First published in Weird Tales in March 1936, The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner is one of my all-time favourite tales of terror, a story of escalating subterranean horror!  DIRECT DOWNLOAD

In this episode we delve into the casebook of Mr Flaxman Low, fiction's first occult detective. In this tale Mr Low investigates a most troubling haunting involving a sinister figure in black. DIRECT DOWNLOAD