“The Canterville Ghost" is a short story by Oscar Wilde about an American family who move to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead nobleman who killed his wife and was starved to death by his wife’s brothers.

An English writer nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times, H.G. Wells was prolific in many genres and is often called the Father of Science Fiction. But wasn’t Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the book that really launched the genre of science fiction?

Tonight we draw our attention to one of the stories of Algernon Blackwood, a former Commander of the British Empire, who was one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre.
 

We interrupt the twilight to bring you another ghost story by Mr. Charles Dickens, “The Trial for Murder.”  

Welcome back to All Things Eerie and Part IV of Sheridan LeFanu’s Carmilla.
 

Welcome back to All Things Eerie and Part II of Sheridan LeFanu’s Carmilla.

Welcome back to All Things Eerie and the conclusion of Sheridan LeFanu’s Carmilla.

Welcome back to All Things Eerie and Part III of Sheridan LeFanu’s Carmilla.

The tale you are about to hear is one of the most famous of vampire stories and predates Bram Stoker’s Dracula by over quarter century.  
 

We introduce our new podcast with a very special ghost story, this one by a Mr. Dickens, whom we all know as one of the most prolific and beloved authors of the 19th century.

A man hoping to help a bereaved friend is met with the most frightening event of his lifetime.

The Irish author Bram Stoker is perhaps best known to us for the story of Dracula, a vampire with a thirst for both blood and vengeance.

We shall only spend a brief moment introducing the controversy over the attribution of tonight’s story to Daniel Defoe.  The reason for this question of attribution lies in two facts: Daniel Defoe was well known to publish many works anonymously, and many anonymously-published works were casually attributed to him.  Because of those two reasons, literary scholars have found endless ways to argue this matter, none of which matter much to us.  But there you have it.

Tonight, we join William Faulkner on a trip back to the fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi.

This evening’s author, Frederick George Loring, was an English naval officer and writer, and an early expert in wireless telegraphy.

Our old friend Henry James, as well as being a chronicler of the Gilded Age, is no stranger to the Gothic, or the ghostly tale.

It’s always a little disconcerting when inanimate objects become, of themselves, animate.