
Episode 99 – Curfew by Lucy M. Boston
This episode Mike and Will examine Curfew by Lucy M. Boston , a childhood tale of haunted bells, unearthed coffins and post-Jamesian highjin...
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... dedicated to the Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of M.R. James.

This episode Mike and Will examine Curfew by Lucy M. Boston , a childhood tale of haunted bells, unearthed coffins and post-Jamesian highjin...

This episode Mike and Will examine Curfew by Lucy M. Boston , a childhood tale of haunted bells, unearthed coffins and post-Jamesian highjin...

M.R. James said that sex had no place in a ghost story. But was he right? This episode we attempt to answer this question and more, as we co...

M.R. James said that sex had no place in a ghost story. But was he right? This episode we attempt to answer this question and more, as we co...

Hold on to your mummy! This episode Mike and Will discuss Mark Gatiss’s recent Ghost Story for Christmas TV adaptation Lot 249 , as we...

Hold on to your mummy! This episode Mike and Will discuss Mark Gatiss’s recent Ghost Story for Christmas TV adaptation Lot 249 , as we...

This episode, Mike and Will grab their literary toboggans and gallop joyously out into the snow, only to be hit in the face by a terrifying...

This episode, Mike and Will grab their literary toboggans and gallop joyously out into the snow, only to be hit in the face by a terrifying...

Who would win in a fight between a man and a bed? Find the answer to this question and more in our new episode on The Weird of the Walfords...

Who would win in a fight between a man and a bed? Find the answer to this question and more in our new episode on The Weird of the Walfords...

This episode we speak with two experts to better understand Eleanor Scott and her story Randall’s Round, Dr Vicky Margree and Prof Dan...

This episode we speak with two experts to better understand Eleanor Scott and her story Randall’s Round, Dr Vicky Margree and Prof Dan...

A BBC Ghost Story for Christmas is thankfully as traditional as quaffing eggnog and leaving out a carrot for Rudolph. And what a treat, as t...

A BBC Ghost Story for Christmas is thankfully as traditional as quaffing eggnog and leaving out a carrot for Rudolph. And what a treat, as t...

This episode Mike and Will explore freaky folk-dance, village-based villainy and Cotswold chicanery in Eleanor Scott’s awesome Jamesia...

This episode Mike and Will explore freaky folk-dance, village-based villainy and Cotswold chicanery in Eleanor Scott’s awesome Jamesia...

In the first episode of Season 4 tm , Mike and Will are delighted by Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley , a tale of crypts, clergymen and crikey...

In the first episode of Season 4 tm , Mike and Will are delighted by Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley , a tale of crypts, clergymen and crikey...

Join Will and Mike for haunted cathedrals, lecherous minor canons and hair-based horrors in Noel Boston’s ‘Right Through My Hair...

Join Will and Mike for haunted cathedrals, lecherous minor canons and hair-based horrors in Noel Boston’s ‘Right Through My Hair...

Open your hymn books to episode 89, as we’re back in church for Christopher Woodforde’s “Cushi”: a tale of capering...

Open your hymn books to episode 89, as we’re back in church for Christopher Woodforde’s “Cushi”: a tale of capering...

Join Mike and Will for a special 10th anniversary (give or take a few months) special in which your now-aged hosts look back over a decade o...

Join Mike and Will for a special 10th anniversary (give or take a few months) special in which your now-aged hosts look back over a decade o...

In this episode, Mike and Will share their thoughts on Mark Gatiss’s recent TV adaptation of M.R. James’s The Mezzotint. Join us...

In this episode, Mike and Will share their thoughts on Mark Gatiss’s recent TV adaptation of M.R. James’s The Mezzotint. Join us...

Ho ho, and indeed ho! In this special festive episode, Mike and Will pull on their wellies and wander straight into Lucky’s Grove by H...

Ho ho, and indeed ho! In this special festive episode, Mike and Will pull on their wellies and wander straight into Lucky’s Grove by H...

This episode Mike and Will grab their torches and disappear up ‘The Tudor Chimney’ by A.N.L. Munby. But what is that shape movin...

This episode Mike and Will grab their torches and disappear up ‘The Tudor Chimney’ by A.N.L. Munby. But what is that shape movin...

Ahoy there listeners! Be grabbin’ yer nautical gear for a cruise on the high seas of Leicestershire, with LTC Rolt and his story Boswo...

Ahoy there listeners! Be grabbin’ yer nautical gear for a cruise on the high seas of Leicestershire, with LTC Rolt and his story Boswo...

This episode Will and Mike hitch up their cassocks, pack their prayer books and head to ‘Southshire’ to open ‘A Room in a...

This episode Will and Mike hitch up their cassocks, pack their prayer books and head to ‘Southshire’ to open ‘A Room in a...

This week Will and Mike don their warmest Christmas jumpers for dinner with Dr James and the troubled incumbents of Medborough Abbey, in the...

This week Will and Mike don their warmest Christmas jumpers for dinner with Dr James and the troubled incumbents of Medborough Abbey, in the...

This episode Mike and Will brace themselves for the ‘appalling stench of goat, cordite, sulphur, and burning human flesh’ in M.P...

This episode Mike and Will brace themselves for the ‘appalling stench of goat, cordite, sulphur, and burning human flesh’ in M.P...

This Halloween Mike and Will stroll out into the garden to take a look at The Sundial by R.H. Malden . But who is that lurking in the bushes...

This Halloween Mike and Will stroll out into the garden to take a look at The Sundial by R.H. Malden . But who is that lurking in the bushes...

Today we head to East Anglia for a round of golf in the company of enthusiastic James fan H.R. Wakefield. No whistling ‘ere though ...

Today we head to East Anglia for a round of golf in the company of enthusiastic James fan H.R. Wakefield. No whistling ‘ere though ...

This episode Mike and Will travel back to 16th century Cambridge to get acquainted with a rather unsavory guest at Jesus College in ‘...

This episode Mike and Will travel back to 16th century Cambridge to get acquainted with a rather unsavory guest at Jesus College in ‘...

This episode Mike and Will put on their dancing shoes and head out to the lawn, only to encounter The Man with the Roller by E.G. Swain ! Ma...

This episode Mike and Will put on their dancing shoes and head out to the lawn, only to encounter The Man with the Roller by E.G. Swain ! Ma...

We liven up our social distancing by finishing off the Benson boys, with Fred’s How Fear Departed From the Long Gallery . Dirty Dick g...

We liven up our social distancing by finishing off the Benson boys, with Fred’s How Fear Departed From the Long Gallery . Dirty Dick g...

This episode explores some ecclesiastical terrors in R.H. Benson’s ‘The Traveller’ . It was ‘too ecclesiastical̵...

This episode explores some ecclesiastical terrors in R.H. Benson’s ‘The Traveller’ . It was ‘too ecclesiastical̵...