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 Women - An Introduction

02 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell

09 - The Last House in C Street by Mrs Craik

04 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

05 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton

06 - Reality or Delusion by Mrs Ellen Wood

07 - Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

08 - Was It An Illusion. A Parson's Story by Amelia Edwards

09 - The Open Door - Part 1 by Margaret Oliphant

10 - The Open Door - Part 2 by Margaret Oliphant

11 - The Story of the RipplingTrain by Mary Louisa Molesworth

12 - The Last of Squire Ennismore by Charlotte Riddell

13 - To Let by B M Croker.wav

05 - From The Dead by Edith Nesbit

15 - In the Séance Room by Lettice Galbraith

16 - The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton