For the last of our seasonal chillers for this year we have a ghost story for New Year's Eve by Mr RH Malden, the tale of an unfortunate clergyman who encounters something truly terrible on the last day of the year...
In the second part of his festive tale, Mr Jim Moon relates what strange events occurred on the night before the night before Christmas!
This week we have the first part of a two part tale in which we discover what Christmas is like in an alternative 1970s where the dead walk! Note this story is a sequel to an earlier two part tale which can be found here
This week's seasonal chiller is The Festival by HP Lovecraft, the tale of a trip to an ancient seaside town for a unique Yuletide meeting...
We open this year's selection of festive frights with a classic poem by Edgar Allan Poe, a tale told in verse, whose events fold on dark night " in the bleak December"...
In this show, we have a witty but eerie tale from Rudyard Kipling, concerning a military regiment stationed in India, ghosts, and a banjo!
A ghostly tale set in Norfolk by R. H. Malden, who was not only inspired by MR James but also a close friend.
It's All Hallows Eve and we are visiting the little village of Meadowsend where the locals grow nervous around the end of October. For here there are many whispered stories of old ghosts and folklore horrors, strange things are seen in the shadows, and voices call out of the night
In this show, as a prelude to Hallowe'en, we read a very haunting poem, All Souls by Edith Wharton.
In this show, an eerie tale from E Nesbit - set in the month of October, a stay with friends at an ancient country house takes a turn for the macabre...
A haunting tale from the great M. R. James, concerning something dark and vampiric unleashed while renovating an old cathedral...
In this show we delve into the lurid world of the penny dreadful, with the opening episode of Varney the Vampire, the gothic horror saga with an undead antihero which thrilled Victorian audiences.
A little fireside chat with Mr Jim, who has some good news about his battles with lung cancer
At the height of summer, as something deep in the soil stirs, one old tree's leaves are already turning red - find out why in this seminal tale of folk horror from Ulric Daubeny!
A cycle of sonnets detailing weird dreams of a strange alien world of the Cthulhu Mythos, written by Duane W. Rimel, with guidance from both H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith.
The second part of a strange tale unearthed from the mysterious vaults of the Great Library of Dreams - a memoir of boyhood summer in a very different 1970s... one where the dead walk!
In this episode, we begin a two part tale unearthed from the mysterious vaults of the Great Library of Dreams - a memoir of boyhood summer in a very different 1970s...
Another tale from the fantastical Dreamlands of HP Lovecraft!
A tale of summers spent in a sleepy Cornish village where an ancient church holds a sinister and deadly secret...
A darkly humorous science fiction tale of a dystopian future where road rage is a way of life!