Step into the quietly unsettling world of A.M. Burrage's "Playmates," where the veil between the seen and unseen is delicately lifted. In a remote English country house, the orphaned Monica, adopted by the reserved historian Stephen Everton, begins to find mysterious companions in the so-called "schoolroom." This ghost story, with its subtle yet pervasive sense of dread, invites you to explore the shadows that linger in lonely halls and the whispers of those long gone. Join me in this eerie tale that delicately intertwines the themes of isolation, companionship, and the enduring presence of the past.More notes herehttps://tonywalker.craft.me/XVEX3gBlJ45ZYU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

The Telephone by Mary Treadgold

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!