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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!

Some very important news concerning your host and the future of the show...

A very early tale of cursed media - a story from 1944 concerning a vinyl record which has decidedly sinister effects on the listener ...

A sinister but darkly humorous tale of a small boy and his unusual pet, which may, or may not, be a god...

A tale of a lone man stranded on Mars with only himself for company, and one that now reads like a prediction of the perils of chatbots and AI

An eerie tale of a child's imaginary friend, who may not be as harmless as he first appears...

An eerie poem from Edgar Allan Poe, recited by mad Roderick Usher in the classic tale The Fall of the House of Usher.

This week a folk horror tale from Mr Moon himself - some Youtubers explore a ruined tower on a remote island in Northumbria, and discover that it is not as deserted as it first appears... 

Restoration work in an old church accidentally releases an ancient horror in this classic Victorian vampire tale!

A classic eerie tale from Mr Algernon Blackwood concerning a vigil held in an allegedly haunted house

A strange gothic nightmare of a tale from Mr Ambrose Bierce!

An experiment in mesmerism yields eerie and horrifying results!

For our first tale for the new year, we have a trip to a fantastic Dreamlands of HP Lovecraft, in the classic weird tale Celephaïs.

For our final tale for the festive season, a ghost story for New Year's Eve by the great MR James, an eerie tale of dark deeds and dangerous magic.

For our last ghost story for Christmas, a tale from Jim Moon himself, the tale of a little village with a curious Christmas tradition involving an old churchyard yew tree...

For our third ghost story for Christmas, we have a tale from EF Benson which begins with a Yuletide gathering where the gathered guests are telling ghost stories...

For our second ghost story for the Yuletide season we have the tale of haunted country house in A Strange Christmas Game by Charlotte Riddell

December is upon us and hence it is the season for Yuletide ghost stories. And we begin with a tale from Mr Hugh Walpole, the story of an eerie Christmas spent in an old house in snowy Cornwall...

An eerie tale for the frosty and foggy days of November! In this classic chiller, HR Wakefield takes us on a visit to a notoriously haunted house whose permanent residents are particularly hostile...

The classic tale from HP Lovecraft concerning the brilliant but deeply unsettling paintings of Mr Richard Upton Pickman...

An eerie tale for Hallowe'en night, very much in the spirit of Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson, by Mr Jim Moon himself

In this dark tale from E Nesbit, a young couple move out to a quiet country village, which is home to a very sinister Hallowe'en night legend...

A classic poem for Hallowe'en by the great HP Lovecraft

A vintage tale of folk horror by Mr Frederick Cowles, in which a clergyman in rural Cornwall discovers secret rites held in ancient ruins on Hallowe'en night. 

To begin the spooky season a chilling tale from EF Benson, which reaches its terrifying climax in the month of October...

A tale by the man considered by none other than MR James to be the master of the ghost story - Sheridan le Fanu. In this autumnal story, we discover a rural Lancashire yarn that is more than a legend...

A haunting tale in the tradition of MR James, concerning a curious and macabre church monument and the dark secrets it hides...

While we often associate the ghost stories of MR James with winter and old colleges, he did write a wide variety of tales, and tonight we have one that may be considered early folk horror, taking place in the heart of the countryside in the summertime...

A tale of botanical terror from HG Wells, concerning a highly unusual and indeed hostile rare plant! 

Another tale of giant monsters from the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle! In this chiller we learn of the monstrous creatures lurking in the upper stratosphere!

A classic tale of terror from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning something large, ancient, and very nasty lurking in the hills of Derbyshire!

A vintage science fiction tale from the golden age of pulp magazines, a story which pits dinosaurs against Martian invaders! 

As another tie-in to the Hypnogoria Roger Corman series, we have a story from Edgar Allan Poe, which was brought to the screen in Corman's Poe anthology Tales of Terror (1962)

As a little tie-in to the Hypnogoria Roger Corman series here is a tale of terror from one of his collaborators - Richard Matheson. And this story is in fact the very first that Matheson ever had published... 

Another early tale of a surviving prehistoric monster but this story about a lake dwelling dinosaur takes a very bizarre turn...

As a little crossover with the Kaiju History podcasts on our other show, we have a Victorian tale of a chap who discovers a living fossil. But unfortunately, this surviving saurian is extremely large and very hostile... 

Mr Jim reads a massively influential chiller, an otherworldly tale of maritime terror - The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson

With another reading of a favourite old tale of terror, Mr Jim revisits The Waxwork by AM Burrage, a classic chiller many of us discovered in the creepy tales for kids anthology Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery!

In this show, Mr Jim Moon reads a favourite tale of terror he found in an old book in childhood, which, funnily enough, is about a man haunted a strange tale in an old book he found in childhood...

A reading of a highly controversial tale - the issue of Weird Tales it appeared in was pulled from the shelves after complaints! And despite being over a hundred year old, it still has the power to shock. You have been warned! Listener discretion is advised!

An early tale of terror from HP Lovecraft, inspired by New England folklore and featuring his famous witch-haunted town Arkham

In this show, we have a short tale by the great HG Wells, a science fiction mystery story that may, or may not, be a prequel to War of the Worlds!

For our 100th episode, we have a reading of one of the most terrifying tales of ever written - The Red Lodge by HR Wakefield

We begin a new year with a fantastical weird tale from HP Lovecraft, an early story from his Dreamlands cycle.

Behind Door 25 of the Ghosts of Christmas Advent Calendar - Hauntings over the holidays

Behind Door 24 of the Ghosts of Christmas Advent Calendar - Christmas Eve encounters with a ghostly skeleton knight