This week's seasonal chiller is The Festival by HP Lovecraft, the tale of a trip to an ancient seaside town for a unique Yuletide meeting...

We open this year's selection of festive frights with a classic poem by Edgar Allan Poe, a tale told in verse, whose events fold on dark night " in the bleak December"...

In this show, we have a witty but eerie tale from Rudyard Kipling, concerning a military regiment stationed in India, ghosts, and a banjo!

A ghostly tale set in Norfolk by R. H. Malden, who was not only inspired by MR James but also a close friend.

It's All Hallows Eve and we are visiting the little village of Meadowsend where the locals grow nervous around the end of October. For here there are many whispered stories of old ghosts and folklore horrors, strange things are seen in the shadows, and voices call out of the night

In this show, as a prelude to Hallowe'en, we read a very haunting poem, All Souls by Edith Wharton.

In this show, an eerie tale from E Nesbit - set in the month of October, a stay with friends at an ancient country house takes a turn for the macabre...

A haunting tale from the great M. R. James, concerning something dark and vampiric unleashed while renovating an old cathedral...

In this show we delve into the lurid world of the penny dreadful, with the opening episode of Varney the Vampire, the gothic horror saga with an undead antihero which thrilled Victorian audiences.

A little fireside chat with Mr Jim, who has some good news about his battles with lung cancer