A tale of love and loss this week; written in 1904, The Highwayman is a romantic ballad. Set in the England of King George III, the poem tells the story of a highwayman, who has fallen in love with an innkeeper’s beautiful daughter and the betrayal that follows.

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The Man of Science – Jerome K. Jerome

This week, our story is The Man of Science. It is a short ghost story with some comic elements by the British author Jerome K. Jerome, first published in the September 1892.

The story's titular character, and protagonist, comes to believe that a skeleton which he has recently acquired is that of his old enemy, who died before fulfilling his greatest desire... to kill the scientist.

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Welcome back, this week: Darkness – by Lord Byron.

We take a turn into the natural world this week, with Darkness, a poem by Lord Byron. Written in July 1816, when the largest volcanic eruption on record cast darkness across much of north-east America and northern Europe. 

It was known as The Year without Summer. This darkness inspired Byron to tell an apocalyptic story of the last man on earth…

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Back again for another dark tale? This week’s story is Dagon, by H. P. Lovecraft, written in July, 1917. 

The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who plans to commit suicide after having been washed up on the shore of a very strange land, inhabited by even stranger creatures. He escapes the land, but not the memories that he tries so hard to suppress…

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The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

For those of you who like a little scare… but prefer the tingly kind to the kind that is on the news; Welcome to Ghost Stories from The London Dungeon.

Each week we will be reading the ghost stories of yesteryear, for you to listen to at your pleasure. Maybe a bedtime story?

We start with classic this week, the grandfather of gothic horror – Edgar Allan Poe, and The Tell-Tale Heart.

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For those of you who like a little scare… but prefer the tingly kind to the kind that is on the news; Welcome to Ghost Stories from The London Dungeon.

Every Monday evening, we will be reading the ghost stories of yesteryear, for you to listen to at your pleasure. Maybe a bedtime story?

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