Spooky Saturday Read-Alouds
By Violette's Book Daze
Categories: Fiction
I read aloud various ghost, horror or weird stories in English (with a mild Australian accent) mostly from the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
6 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal-man by Charles Dickens
Deep within a damp, steep railway cutting, far removed from the warmth and bustle of the outside world, a solitary signal-man keeps a lonely vigil beside his telegraph and warning bell. In Charles Dickens’s masterful ghost story, No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal-man, the claustrophobic, shadowy…
- The Readjustment by Mary Austin
A bit about the story:When death parts a husband and wife, the silence left behind can become its own haunting. This work is a subtle, atmospheric ghost story where a recently deceased woman returns to her home as a lingering, unseen Presence.About the author:Mary Hunter Austin (1868–1934) was a…
- The Transferred Ghost by Frank R. Stockton_an amusing tale
In Frank R. Stockton's clever twist on the traditional haunted house tale, his story of The Transferred Ghost is about a young man visiting a country estate who encounters a timid specter who is actually far more terrified of the living, than the living are of the dead. This refreshing, humorous…
- Room 13 by M. R. James
While researching church history in a quiet Danish town, a British academic checks into a cozy local inn—only to discover that reality itself is beginning to warp around him. In M.R. James’s masterful architectural ghost story Number 13 (also published as Room 13), the safety of a locked hotel…
- The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
When an ancient, bloodstained British ghost sets out to terrify the new American owners of his ancestral home, he fully expects screams of terror. Instead, he is met with Pinkerton's Champion Stain Remover and a family utterly unfazed by his theatrical hauntings. In Oscar Wilde's brilliant…
- Death and the Woman by Gertrude Atherton
Here I read aloud Gertrude Atherton's deeply atmospheric, psychological story, Death and the Woman, which blurs the line between devotion and madness.This story was first published in 1892, making its initial appearance in the U.K. magazine Vanity Fair.About the Author: Gertrude Atherton…
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