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Classic Ghost Stories
by Tony Walker
Today: #141 in Fiction on our combined chart.
Today: #32 in Fiction, United Kingdom on our combined chart.
Today: #120 in Fiction, Australia on our combined chart.
Today: #77 in Fiction, Ireland on our combined chart.
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Ranking history · United States
Latest daily rankings: Oct 27. New rankings will appear after the next update.
Position on the Fiction combined chart over the last 14 days. Toggle platforms to compare their positions. Lower rank numbers are better.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 27 | #141 | #116 |
| Oct 26 | #138 | #111 |
| Oct 25 | #135 | #108 |
| Oct 24 | #149 | #124 |
| Oct 23 | #161 | #137 |
| Oct 22 | #168 | #144 |
| Oct 21 | #149 | #125 |
| Oct 20 | #144 | #119 |
| Oct 19 | #132 | #104 |
| Oct 18 | #149 | #123 |
| Oct 17 | #175 | #148 |
| Oct 16 | #161 | #135 |
| Oct 15 | #175 | #149 |
| Oct 14 | #163 | #139 |
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About the show
A weekly podcast that reads out ghost stories, horror stories, and weird tales every week. Classic stories from the pens of the masters Occasionally, we feature living authors, but the majority are dead. Some perhaps are undead.
We go from cosy Edwardian ghost stories (E. F. Benson, Walter De La Mare) to Victorian supernatural mysteries (M. R. James, Elizabeth Gaskell, Bram Stoker, and Charles Dickens) to 20th-century Weird Tales (Robert Aickman, Fritz Lieber, Clark Ashton-Smith, and H. P. Lovecraft) and wander from the Gothic to the Odd, even to the Literary, and then back again.
Each episode is followed by Tony's take on the story, its author, its content and any literary considerations, which may be useful to students!