Almost always when we think of Ghost Stories, we first think of those written by the Victorians.

When you consider the depth of literary talent available over the extraordinary length of Queen Victoria’s reign, allied to the fascination with their all things spiritual on ‘the other side’, then perhaps it’s simply right place, right time.

Whatever the reasons given or proffered the reality and known facts are that if you want a really good ghost story to bring that edge of chill, that foreboding of dread, that feeling that in an empty house we are not quite alone and that sometimes the sharp, sheer shock of what just happened is upon us then look no further than ‘The Victorian Ghost Story’ for your listening pleasure.

01 - The Victorian Ghost Story - The Men - An Introduction

02 - The Miniature by J Y Ackerman

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

04 - The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain - Part 1 by Edward Bulwer Lytton

05 - The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain - Part 2 by Edward Bulwer Lytton

06 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens

07 - The Botathen Ghost from Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall by the Reverend R S Hawker

08 - The Romance of Certain Old Clothes by Henry James

09 - The Shadow of a Shade by Tom Hood

10 - No Living Voice by Thomas Street Millington

11 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

12 - At the End of the Passage by Rudyard Kipling

13 - The Man of Science by Jerome K Jerome

14 - Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book by M R James

15 - Jerry Bundler by W W Jacobs

16 - The Tomb of Sarah by F G Loring

17 - The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit by Barry Pain