Time to turn down the lights, cuddle up by the fire, and listen to some frightening tales from days gone by. Here are several spooky stories from when we were podcasting our Thrilling Tales: Storytime for Grownups, earlier in the pandemic, and before:
- The House of the Nightmare, by Edward Lucas White. A lonesome road in the darkening woods, a run down house, and a curious boy who comes to the scene of an automobile smash up. (25 minutes)
- Smee, by A.M. Burrage. A Holiday game of hide-and-seek turns unexpectedly chilling, when a ghost shows up to play! (32 minutes)
- The Inexperienced Ghost, by H.G. Wells. This ghost wasn’t scary: he was pathetic! Still, he left a lasting chill, as does this startling tale! (37 minutes)
The Tarn, by Hugh Walpole. Not even death could end his hatred. A moody, riveting tale of psychological horror from a neglected master. (37 minutes)- The Striding Place, by Gertrude Atherton. Just an evening stroll along the deadliest river in the world. (22 minutes)
- The Pale Man, by Julius Long. The stranger down the hall at the rooming house would hardly meet his eyes, but each day he grew closer, and closer, and closer, until… (30 minutes)
- The Ghost’s Summons, by Ada Buisson. The doctor was just tucking into his Christmas dinner when the call came to attend a death bed, from the dead man himself! (17 minutes)
Courage, by Forrest Reid. Young Michael Aherne is homesick away from his mother, but visiting a haunted house might not be the answer. (26 minutes)- The Red Room, by H.G. Wells. He had nothing to fear but fear itself. As it turns out, that was more than enough! (30 minutes)
- An Evening of Victorian Ghost Stories for the Holidays.
- The Red Lodge, by H. Russell Wakefield. A man moves into an old house with his family and begins to suspect that it is haunted. (40 minutes)
- The Ebony Frame, by Edith Nesbit. In this old fashioned Victorian tale of ghostly love, a man falls instantly in love with a woman he sees in the ebony frame that he finds in his attic. (33 minutes)
- Mrs. Morrell’s Last Seance, by Edgar Jepson. The attended the seance for a lark: it was all bunkum, surely! Also, The Bus Conductor, by E.F. Benson. “Next stop, death: everybody off.” (40 minutes)
- The Ghost Child, by Bernard Capes. Also The Furnished Room, by O Henry. (40 minutes)
- Need more? Check out Tod Brown’s bizarre sideshow tale Spurs, Ambrose Bierce’s wicked short-short John Mortonson’s Funeral, M.L. Humphries’ The Floor Above, George Washington Cable’s Southern Gothic shocker
Jean-Ah Poquelin, and Edgar Jepson’s Mrs. Morrell’s Last Seance. And bookmark or subscribe to Thrilling Tales Podcasts for still more spooky and suspenseful stories, including The Bus Conductor by E.F. Benson, Confession, by Algernon Blackwood, The Adventure of the German Student by Washington Irving, The Voice in the Night, by William Hope Hodgson, and In the Dark, by E. Nesbit.
~ Posted by David W.
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