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Classic Scary Stories — 427 episodes

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1

Beyond The Wall of Sleep - HP Lovecraft

2

The Mummy's Food - Theophile Gautier

3

The Bowmen - Arthur Machen

4

Captain Murder - Charles Dickens

5

An Extraordinary Wedding - Edward Page Mitchell

6

A Predicament - Edgar Allan poe

7

Dagon - HP Lovecraft

8

The Sea Raiders - HG Wells

9

Don't Think About It - William W Stuart

10

The Haunted Orchard - Richard Le Gallienne

11

The Mezzotint - M R James

12

Phantasmagoria - Lewis Carrol

13

Ex Oblivione - H P Lovecraft

14

The Romance of Certain Old Clothes - Henry James

15

The Black Cat - Edgar Allan Poe 2

16

The Red Room - HG Wells

17

The Spider - Hanns Heinz Ewers

18

The Cats of Ulthar - H P Lovecraft

19

The Monster of Lake LaMetrie - Wardon Allan Curtis

20

The Francis Spaight - Jack London

21

Laura - Saki

22

The Horror of the Heights - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

23

Ghosts in Court - Sabine Baring-Gould

24

Martin's Close - MR James

25

The Hidden Beast - JD Beresford

26

The Ring of Thoth - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

27

A Diagnosis of Death - Ambrose Bierce

28

Shadow - A Parable - Edgar Allan Poe

29

The City of Dreadful Night - Rudyard Kipling

30

The Sphinx - Edgar Allan Poe

31

Branch Line-The Signalman - Charles Dickens

32

Black Cat - Jean Thomas

33

Nyarlathotep - H P Lovecraft

34

The Background - Saki

35

The Phantom Coach - Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards

36

How He Caught the Ghost - W Bob Holland

37

Let Loose - Mary Cholmondeley

38

The Terror of Blue John Gap - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

39

The Truth about Pyecraft - HG Wells

40

The Legend of a Gateway - Richard Jefferies

41

The Room of Mirrors - Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

42

The Return of Imray - Rudyard Kipling

43

The Skulls in the Stars - Robert E Howard

44

The Empty House - Algernon Blackwood 2

45

Diary of a Madman - Guy de Maupassant

46

Rattle of Bones - Robert E Howard

47

The Premature Burial - Edgar Allan Poe

48

The Mark of the Beast - Rudyard Kipling

49

The Caller in the Night - Burton Kline

50

A Child of the Rain - Elia Wilkinson Peattie

51

An Astral Onion - Elia Wilkinson Peattie

52

The Realm of the Unreal - Ambrose Bierce

53

The Man Who Was Two - Harold Ward

54

The Last Ascent - Anonymous

55

The Listener - Algernon Blackwood

56

Ghosts That Have Haunted Me - John Kendrick Bangs

57

The Ghost That Failed - Desmond Coke

58

Three and One are One - Ambrose Bierce

59

A Mother of Monsters - Guy de Maupassant

60

The Old Portrait - Hume Nisbet

61

The Phantom Hag - W Bob Holland

62

Staley Fleming's Hallucination - Ambrose Bierce 2

63

The Blind Man - Guy de Maupassant

64

The Trial For Murder - Charles Dickens 2

65

The Toll House - WW Jacobs

66

The Phantom Motor - Jacques Futrelle

67

Letter of the Late Lord - Thomas Lyttelton

68

The Isle of Pines - Ambrose Bierce

69

The Uncommercial Traveller - Charles Dickens

70

Memory - H P Lovecraft

71

Children of the Moon - Richard Meddleton

72

The Last of Mrs DeBrugh - H Sivia

73

The House Surgeon - Rudyard Kipling

74

The Soul of the Great Bell - Lafcadio Hearn

75

The Transfer - Algernon Blackwood

76

The Black Cat - Edgar Allan Poe

77

The Open Window - Saki

78

The Room in the Tower - E F Benson 2

79

When I Was Dead - Vincent O'Sullivan

80

Negotium Perambulans - E F Benson

81

Tales of Treasure - Anonymous

82

Glamis Castle - Elliott O'Donnell

83

Between the Lights - E F Benson

84

The Alchemist - HP Lovecraft

85

The Voice in the Night - William Wintle

86

Berenice - Edgar Allan Poe

87

Lasarus - Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev

88

The Dead and The Countless - Gertrude Atherton

89

A Man with Two Lives - Ambrose Bierce

90

The Tomb - HP Lovecraft

91

The Masque of the Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe

92

The Monkey's Paw - W W Jacobs

93

The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe

94

Old Mr Wiley - Greye La Spina

95

One Summer Night - Ambrose Bierce

96

The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe copy

97

Accessory Before the Fact - Algernon Blackwood

98

A Ghoul's Accountant - Stephen Crane 2

99

The Strange Disappearance of Mr Jeremiah Dance - Elliot O'Donnell

100

When I was Dead - Vincent O'Sullivan copy

101

The Lady Witch - Lady Jane Francesca Wilde

102

The Parlor-Car Ghost - W Bob Holland

103

A Ghost Story - Ada Trevanion

104

Present at a Hanging - Ambrose Bierce

105

The Evil Eye - Lady Jane Francesca Wilde

106

The Tomb - H P Lovecraft

107

The Haunted Mill - Jerome K Jerome

108

Ms Found in a Bottle - Edgar Allan Poe

109

Cain's Atonement - Algernon Blackwood

110

What Was It? - Fitz-James O'Brien

111

The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit - Barry Pain

112

A Ghost in Love - Songling Pu

113

The Nameless City - H P Lovecraft 2

114

His Other Self - WW Jacobs

115

A School Story - M R James

116

The Secret of Two Plaster Casts - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

117

The Torture of Hope - Auguste Villiers de I'Isle-Adam

118

The Phantom Coach - Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards copy

119

The Spectre Bride - W Bob Holland

120

An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

121

The Beast in the Cave - HP Lovecraft

122

At the Gate - Myla Jo Closser

123

Rattle of Bones - Robert E Howard

124

The Terrible Old Man - H P Lovecraft

125

Nyarlathotep - HP Lovecraft

126

The Moonlit Road - Ambrose Bierce

127

The Lift - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

128

Lost Hearts - MR James

129

The Strange Orchid - H G Wells 2

130

The Japanned Box - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

131

The Man Who Was Not on the Passenger List - Robert Barr

132

Death and the Woman - Gertrude Atherton 2

133

The Ghost Club - John Kendrick Bangs

134

The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral - MR James

135

The Shunned House - HP Lovecraft copy

136

Eleonora - Edgar Allan Poe

137

The Ghost Monk - Rosa Campbell Praed

138

The Hall Bedroom - Mary E Wilkins Freeman

139

Masque of the Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe

140

The Former Passengers - Bithia Mary Croker

141

The Shrine of Death - Emilia Francis, Lady Dilke

142

Chickamauga - Ambrose Bierce

143

The Chromatic Ghosts of Thomas - Ellis Parker Butler

144

The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe

145

Yuki-Onna - Lafcadio Hearn

146

The Tale of the Mysterious Mirror - Sir Walter Scott

147

Dream Town - Hentry Sleasar

148

A Midnight Visitor - John Kendrick Bangs

149

A True Relation of the Apparitation of Mrs Veal - Daniel Defoe

150

A Cold Greeting - Ambrose Bierce

151

The Tell Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe

152

A Strange Goldfield - Guy Boothby

153

A Ghoul's Accountant - Stephen Crane

154

The Nameless City - H P Lovecraft

155

The Yellow Dog of K___ University - Elliot O'Donnell

156

A Christmas Ghost on Rotuma - Hugh Hastings Romilly

157

The Four Fifteen Express - Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards

158

Mr Tilly's Seance - EF Benson

159

The Ghost Extinguisher - Frank Gelett Burgess

160

To the Dead in the Grave Yard Under My Window - Adelaide Crapsey

161

The Dream - Ivan Turgenev

162

There Shall Be No Misunderstanding - Hildgarde Hawthorne

163

Shadow-A Parable - Edgar Allan Poe

164

A Ghost Story - Mark Twain

165

The Devil - Guy de Maupassant

166

The Valley of Spiders - HG Wells

167

The Banshee - Anonymous

168

Ex Oblivion - HP Lovecraft

169

The Old Nurse's Story - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

170

The Spook House - Ambrose Bierce

171

The Devil's Wager - Williiam Makepeace Thackeray

172

Napoleon and the Spectre - Charlotte Brontë

173

The Beautiful Suit - H G Wells

174

Was It a Dream? - Guy de Maupassant

175

Gods of The North - Robert E Howard

176

The Headless Cat of No - Lower Seedley Road, Seedley, Manchester

177

The Strange Orchid - H G Wells

178

The Thing At Nolan - Ambrose Bierce

179

The Masqued Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe

180

The Boarded Window - Ambrose Bierce 2

181

Idle Days on The Yann - Lord Dusany

182

The Striding Place - Gertrude Atherton

183

Dagon - H P Lovecraft

184

The Cats of Ulthar - H P Lovecraft copy

185

The Mass of Shadows - Anatole France

186

The Doors of Death - Arthur Beecher Waltermire

187

The Summons - Henry Altimus

188

The Dead Mother - Unknown

189

The Life of a Murderer - Hannah Maria Jones

190

The Little Maid at the Door - Mary E Wilkins Freeman

191

A Tale of the Ragged Mountains - Edgar Allan Poe

192

Where the Tides Ebb and Flow - Lord Dunsany

193

Dad Barkers Ghost - RC Canterbury

194

The Vengeance of a Tree - Eleanor F Lewis

195

On the River - Guy de Maupassant

196

Hypnos - HP Lovecraft

197

The Painter's Bargain - William Makepeace Thackeray

198

On the Northern Ice - Elia Wilkinson Peattie

199

The Tree - H P Lovecraft

200

To Be Read at Dusk - Charles Dickens

201

Dracula's Guest - Bram Stoker

202

The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe

203

The Interval - Vincent O'Sullivan

204

The Shadows on the Wall - Mary E Wilkins Freeman

205

The Horla - Guy de Maupassant

206

Green Tea Part 2 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

207

Murder and Myster - James Skipp Borlase

208

The Oval Portrait - Edgar Allan Poe copy 2

209

The Boarded Window - Ambrose Bierce

210

The Voice in the Night - William Hope Hodgson

211

The White Old Maid - Nathaniel Hawthorne

212

The Long Chamber - Olivia Howard Dunbar

213

A Voice from the Pit - Bernard Capes

214

The Dead Woman's Photograph - W Bob Holland

215

Waxworks - Walter Lionel George

216

Hop-Frog - Edgar Allan Poe

217

Casting the Runes - M R James

218

The Magic Shop - HG Wells

219

Their Dear Little Ghost - Elia Wilkinson Peattie

220

I Have a Rendezvous with Death - Alan Seeger

221

The Vacant Lot - Mary E Wilkins Freeman

222

Caterpillars - EF Benson

223

The Conclave of Corpses - Anonymous

224

Each Man Kills - Victoria Glad

225

The 930 Up Train - Sabine Baring-Gould

226

The Return - Algernon Blackwood

227

The Hall Bedroom - W Elwyn Backus

228

A Piece of String - Jacques Futrelle

229

Since I Died - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

230

Branchline the Engineer - Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards

231

Schalken the Painter - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

232

The Judge's House - Bram Stoker

233

The Kit Bag - Algernon Blackwood

234

The Eyes of Panther - Ambrose Bierce

235

The Intruder - Marjorie Bowen

236

The Masque of the Red Death - Egar Allan Poe

237

The Dualitists, or, the Death Doom of the Double Born - Bram Stoker

238

The Middle Toe of the Right Foot - Ambrose Bierce

239

The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman copy

240

Tiger Cat - David Henry Keller

241

The Bell in the Fog - Gertrude Atherton

242

The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe

243

The Oval Portrait - Edgar Allan poe copy

244

The Empty House - Algernon Blackwood

245

Who Knows? - Guy de Maupassant

246

The Tap - Arthur Edwards Chapman copy

247

Strom Ship of the Hudson - Charles M Skinner

248

Ancient Ghost Story - Pliny the Younger

249

Staley Flemings Hallucination - Ambrose Bierce

250

The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe 2

251

Mutter Schwegel - G Ranger Wormser

252

The Street - H P Lovecraft

253

The Story of the Grey House - Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard

254

The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe copy

255

Reality or Delusion - Mrs Henry Wood

256

Death and the Woman - Gertrude Atherton

257

The Woman In Green - Songling Pu

258

He? - Guy de Maupassant

259

The Nameless City - HP Lovecraft

260

The Signalman - Charles Dickens

261

The Imp of the Perverse - Edgar Allan Poe

262

One Summer Night - Ambrose Bierce copy

263

The Stolen Body - HG Wells

264

An Arrest - Ambrose Bierce

265

Test of Courage - C W Leadbeater

266

Letter to Sura - Pilny the Younger

267

The Beast With Five Fingers - W F Harvey

268

My First Experience with the Great Logician - Jacques Futrelle

269

The Death of Halpin Frayser - Ambrose Bierce

270

The Water Chost of Harrowby Hall - John Kendrick Bangs

271

The Geebung Polo Club - Andrew Barton Paterson

272

Gabriel Ernest - Saki

273

The Withered Arm - Thomas Hardy

274

A Tropical Horror - William Hope Hodgson

275

The Devil's Funeral - Edward Page Mitchell

276

Wireless Confusion - Algernon Blackwood

277

The Wrecker and the Death Ship - William Bottrell

278

The Picture in the House - HP Lovecraft

279

Phantom - Arnold Bennett

280

Fragment - Lafcadio Hearn

281

A Haunted Island - Algernon Blackwood

282

And The Dead Spake - EF Benson

283

The Cone - HG Wells

284

Back From That Bourne - Edward Page Mitchell

285

The Story of Mimi Nashi Hoishi - Lafcadio Hearn

286

The Tell-Tale Hearth - Edgar Allan Poe

287

The Hour of Man - Robert Barr

288

A Psychical Prank - John Kendrick Bangs

289

The Yellow Globe - Alexander W Drake

290

Man-size In Marble - E Nesbit

291

The Lost Ghost - Mary E Wilkins Freeman

292

The Silver Mirror - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

293

John and the Ghosts - Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

294

The Womans Ghost Story - Algernon Blackwood

295

The Valley of the Beasts - Algernon Blackwood

296

Caterpillars - E F Benson

297

An Imperfect Conflagration - Ambrose Bierce

298

A Halloween Wraith - William Black

299

Uncle Abraham's Romance - E Nesbit

300

The Lost Ghost - Mary E Wilkins Freeman

301

The Body-Snatcher - Robert Louis Stevenson

302

Jim Dickinson's Head - Harold Ward

303

The Ebony Frame - E Nesbit

304

The Devil in Manuscript - Nathaniel Hawthorne

305

An Old Woman's Tale - Nathaniel Hawthorne

306

A Haunted House - Virginia Woolf

307

The Dead Smile - Francis Marion Crawford

308

Memory - H P Lovecraft

309

The Mummy's Foot - Théophile Gautier

310

Two Military Executuions - Ambrose Bierce

311

The Wind in the Rose-Bush - Mary E Wilkins Freeman

312

The Treasure Ship - Saki

313

The Room of the Evil Thought - Elia Wilkinson Peattie

314

The Ghost Legends of Tlingit - Katharine Berry Judson

315

The Crawling Chaos - H P Lovecraft

316

A Misfit Ghost - W Bob Holland

317

Thurnley Abbey - Perceval Landon

318

A Quick Silber Cassandra - John Kendrick Bangs

319

Silence - A Fable - Edgar Allan Poe

320

Fragments from the Mounal of a Solitary Man - Nathaniel Hawthorne

321

The Room in the Tower - E F Benson

322

The Red Room - HG Wells 2

323

The Mother and the Dead Child - Hans Christian Andersen

324

The Apparition - Guy de Maupassant

325

The Eyes - Edith Wharton

326

Memory - HP Lovecraft

327

Problem of the Stolen Bank Notes - Jacques Futrelle

328

The Long Arm of God - Ward Sterling

329

Polaris - H P Lovecraft

330

The Damned Thing - Ambrose Bierce

331

A Vine on a House - Ambrose Bierce

332

The Brazilian Cat - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

333

The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

334

Visions of the Night - Ambrose Beirce

335

Thou Art The Man - Edgar Allan Poe

336

The Cat Called Carlos - HF Leslie

337

The Finest Story in the World - Rudyard Kipling

338

A Spectral Collie - Elia Wilkinson Peattie

339

Banshees - Elliott O'Donnell

340

No Living Voice - Thomas Street Millington

341

Smith-An Episod in a Lodging House - Algernon Blackwood

342

The Story of the Siren - E M Forster

343

The Hand - Guy de Maupassant

344

Clairvoyance - Algernon Blackwood

345

A Dreadful Night - Sir Edwin Arnold

346

At Chrighton Abbey - Mary Elizabeth Braddon

347

Transformation - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

348

Entrance and Exit - Algernon Blackwood

349

The Statement of Randolph Carter - H P Lovecraft

350

Napoleon and Spectre - Charlotte Bronte

351

The Dance of Death - Algernon Blackwood

352

The Picture In The House - H P Lovecraft

353

The Doom That Came To Sarnath - H P Lovecraft

354

August Heat - WF Harvey

355

The Oval Portrait - Edgar Allan Poe

356

An Unbidden Guest - W Bob Holland

357

They - Rudyard Kipling

358

The Thing at Ghent - Honoré de Balzac

359

Am I Insane? - Guy de Maupassant

360

The Mystery of the Semi-detached - E Nesbit

361

The Monkey's Paw - W W Jacobs copy

362

The Terrible Old Man - H P Lovecraft 2

363

The Ghost Ship - Richard Middleton

364

Charles Ashmore's Trail - Ambrose Bierce

365

The Barn on the Marsh - Sir Charles GD Roberts

366

Staley Fleming's Hallucination - Ambrose Bierce

367

Ring Once for Death - Robert Arthur, Jr

368

Skeleton Lake An Episode In Camp - Algernon Blackwood

369

The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar

370

The Music of Erich Zann - H P Lovecraft

371

The Yellow Paper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

372

Pledged to the Dead - Seabury Quinn

373

The Wrong Door - WC Morrow

374

Lost in a Pyramid, or The Mummy's Curse - Louisa May Alcott

375

The Occupant of the Room - Algernon Blackwood

376

The Fakeer's Drum - Flora Annie Steel

377

Skills in the Stars - Robert E Howard

378

An Inhabitant of Carcosa - Ambrose Bierce

379

The Hounds of Fate - Saki

380

The Dualists - Bram Stoker

381

A School Story - MR James

382

Ghost of Buckstown Inn - Arnold M Anderson

383

Letter to Sura - Pliny the Younger

384

The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem - Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

385

Captain Murderer - Charles Dickens

386

The Other Lodgers - Ambrose Bierce

387

The Trial for Murder - Charles Dickens

388

The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost - HG Wells

389

The Stranger - Ambrose Bierce

390

A Wedding Chest - Vernon Lee

391

When I was Dead - Vincent O'Sullivan

392

Was It A Dream? - Guy de Maupassant

393

Lost Hearts - MR James

394

The Vengeance of a Tree - Eleanor F. Lewis

395

The Phantom Hag - W. Bob Holland

396

The Mass of Shadows - Anatole France

397

A Man with Two Lives - Ambrose Bierce copy

398

A Misfit Ghost - W. Bob Holland

399

The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe

400

The Black Cat - Edgar Allan Poe

401

The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe

402

Mr. Tilly's Seance - EF Benson

403

Smith-An Episode in a Lodging House - Algernon Blackwood

404

The Terrible Old Man - H.P. Lovecraft

405

Death and the Woman - Gertrude Atherton

406

The Oval Portrait - Edgar Allan Poe

407

The Boarded Window - Ambrose Bierce

408

The Voice in the Night - William. Hope Hodgson

409

The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

410

The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe

411

The Empty House - Algernon Blackwood

412

The Strange Orchid - H.G. Wells

413

The Cats of Ulthar - H.P. Lovecraft

414

The Phantom Coach - Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards

415

Casting the Runes - M.R. James

416

The Headless Cat of No.- Lower Seedley Road, Seedley, Manchester

417

The Lost Ghost - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

418

The Oval Portrait - Edgar Allan poe

419

The Story of the Siren - E.M. Forster

420

Nyarlathotep - H.P. Lovecraft

421

Skeleton Lake. An Episode In Camp - Algernon Blackwood

422

The Room in the Tower - E.F. Benson

423

Between the Lights - E.F. Benson

424

The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe

425

The Strange Disappearance of Mr. Jeremiah Dance - Elliot O'Donnell

426

Negotium Perambulans - E.F. Benson

427

The Beautiful Suit - H.G. Wells