Long-form · 42:55
Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume 5: Three Tales from 1903-1906
Long winter nights helped make ghost stories part of the Victorian Christmas tradition. Volume 5 continues that custom with two poems and one...
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Long-form · 42:55
Long-form · 55:00
Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume 4: Two Winter Tales
Winter darkness and holiday gatherings helped make ghost stories part of the Victorian Christmas tradition. Volume 4 continues that custom with two nineteenth-century...
Long-form · 54:59
Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume 3: Two Tales from 1857 and 1887
Long winter nights once made ghost stories a natural part of Christmas entertainment. Volume 3 continues that tradition with two nineteenth-century readings separated...
Long-form · 57:47
Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume 2: The Green Huntsman and Warned by the Wire
The Victorian Christmas season was not limited to cheerful celebrations. Long nights and fireside gatherings also created an ideal setting for supernatural stories....
Long-form · 48:04
Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume 2: Six Holiday Hauntings
Christmas ghost stories long predate modern holiday entertainment. Winter darkness, gatherings around the fire and the older tradition of telling supernatural tales all...
Long-form · 1:02:57
Told After Supper: Jerome K. Jerome’s Christmas Ghost Stories
In Victorian Britain, the long nights around Christmas offered an ideal setting for ghost stories told by the fire. This special episode revives...
Long-form · 57:54
Christmas Hauntings: Hotel Bethlehem, the Rouse Simmons and Death Coach
The longest nights of the year have long made Christmas a season for ghost stories. This episode gathers five accounts connected with holiday...
Long-form · 1:15:34
Christmas Ghost Stories: A Victorian Fireside Tradition
Christmas was once a natural season for ghost stories. In the Victorian era, families and friends gathered during the year’s longest nights to...
Long-form · 1:06:37
Haunted Valentines: Gadsby’s Tavern, Lake Drummond and The Octagon
Love stories do not always end with a wedding or a peaceful farewell. This Valentine’s episode explores Mid-Atlantic tales in which devotion, separation,...
Long-form · 1:04:16
Christmas Ghost Stories: Dickens’ The Signal-Man and Blackwood’s The Kit-Bag
Long winter evenings helped make the ghost story a lasting part of British Christmas entertainment. This episode returns to that tradition with abridged...
Short · 01:17
The Dead of Winter in Richmond
Winter can make Richmond’s familiar streets feel spare, quiet and unexpectedly eerie. This brief seasonal Short leans into that atmosphere with a playful...
Short · 01:48
The Yule Cat: Iceland’s Terrifying Christmas Legend
Iceland’s Yule Cat, or Jolakotturinn, is an enormous feline figure associated with the Christmas season. In the best-known version of the tradition, anyone...
Short · 00:14
Halloween Is Home Decor: A Richmond Short
Some people put their skeletons away after October. Others understand that Halloween decor is simply home decor with better timing.
Short · 00:07
Happy Fall, Richmond
Autumn brings cooler air, changing leaves and the season when Richmond’s historic streets feel especially suited to ghost stories.
Short · 00:34
October Ghost Tours in Richmond
October is the natural high season for ghost tours: earlier sunsets, cooler evenings and an audience ready to hear the stories attached to...