Why not enjoy a reading of Algernon Blackwoods Ancient Lights before wandering off into those summery woods a classic work of Weird Fiction read and dramatized with sound and music from your imag

The folklore of Russian vampires describes a creature slightly different than what were accustomed. In tonights show we share a number of traditional tales from the1873 volume Russian Folk-Tales b

Explore some curious British Customs with us, including those of Midsummer, swan-upping,egg-hopping, St. Bartholomews knives, and the violent tradition of St. Michaelmas ganging. Our source for th

A malignant vapor, weird plagues and punishments, a Polish dwarf, and a perilous journey into the lightless depths of a pyramid all included in thispleasantly macabre collection of short tales from

Tales of animal ghosts are usually relegated to the periphery of ghost story collections, but in this episode, we showcase this class of apparition. Our stories were collected ina volume from 1915 ca

Fairy tales featuring cats are generally pleasant. After our last show about malformed births, we thought, Andrew Langs story, The Colony of Cats might be a pleasant tonic, albeit one with a bizarr

For centuries, strange births, often sounding like mythological monsters, were regarded as portents of ill omen. We hear a number of these fantastical accounts, including a description of the birth of

A self-crucifixion that occurred in 1806 on the island of San Servolo in the Venetian lagoon is the topic of our story this time around. The perpetrator and object of this crucifixion was Mattio Lova

An Irish ghost story seems a good way to add a bit of Halloween spice to your St. Patricks Day.Our selection, which will be read by Mrs. Karswell, comes from the 1825 publication Fairy Legends and T

Epitaphs can sum up the life of the individual buried beneath or can comment on the human condition generally. Fromthe melancholy to the absurd to the catastrophically caustic, we survey in this epis