EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast
Episodes
"The Room in the Tower" by E. F. Benson
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A man is haunted from childhood by a recurring, deeply unsettling dream in which he always finds himself visiting the same gloomy house, meeting the s...
"The Mezzotint" by M. R. James
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A university museum curator receives a mezzotint print depicting a country house. At first glance, the image seems ordinary, but on repeated viewings ...
"The Glass of Supreme Moments" by Barry Pain
13 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One winter’s evening, a man, dogged by depression, encounters a mysterious figure who challenges his perception of time and fulfillment. But what is...
"The Step" by E. F. Benson
13 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A wealthy British businessman living in colonial Egypt finds his comfortable life begin to unravel when he is haunted by the mysterious sound of foots...
"The Vanishing House" & "On the Northern Ice" - Two Fireside Tales
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two wintry fireside tales. In “The Vanishing House” by Bernard Capes, a group of travelling musicians are passing the night in a country inn when ...
"The Dust-Cloud" by E. F. Benson
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Visiting a friend on the East Anglian coast, a man learns of a supernatural happenings that have followed a tragic motor accident. This original recor...
"An Alpine Divorce" by Robert Barr
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An unhappily married man takes his wife on holiday to Switzerland with a view to killing her.This original recording is an audio presentation by Jaspe...
"The Owl" by F. A. M. Webster
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To settle her father's debts the beautiful Alison Mercer is betrothed to mysterious archaeologist Simeon Stroud. But when dashing Hugh Davenant ar...
"Sargasso" by Ward Muir
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When a US Navy exploratory ship finds a tramp steamer that went missing some years before, the mystery surrounding its disappearance becomes closer to...
"The Green Bottle" by Bernard Capes
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A journalist with an interest in crime and the supernatural is invited by a disliked former colleague to investigate a strange item that has come into...
"Mrs Lunt" by Hugh Walpole
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A shy novelist accepts an invitation to spend Christmas with another writer in a remote house in Penzance, Cornwall. He quickly regrets his decision…...
"The Misanthrope" & "The Little Town" by J. D. Beresford
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories by J.D. Beresford. In “The Misanthrope” a man pays a visit to a hermit living on a Cornish island to find out what drove him there. In...
"Young Magic" by Helen de Guerry Simpson
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Young Viola’s childhood is made less lonely by her mysterious companion “Binns” – but is he fairy, familiar or something more sinister?This or...
"The Hill" by R. Ellis-Roberts
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Out walking in the countryside, a man spots something different about a hill in Symondsbury, Dorset. Intrigued, he finds himself inexorably drawn into...
"Don't Get Around Much Anymore" by Jasper L'Estrange
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An old man starts to fear for his safety when he suspects his live-in carer is not quite what he seems.This original recording is an audio presentatio...
"An Evening's Entertainment" by M.R. James
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A grandmother warns her grandchildren not to pick blackcurrants where they grow in a particular spot in the village. When asked why, she relates to th...
"Casting the Runes" by M.R. James
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A sceptical researcher incurs the wrath of a sinister occultist and soon finds himself embroiled in strange, escalating events. As fear mounts and tim...
"The Man with the Brown Beard" by Nathaniel P. Babcock
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In The Tombs prison, New York, preparing to be hanged for a crime he didn’t commit, Harry Jessup has a supernatural experience with far-reaching rep...
"Beyondaril" by John Metcalfe
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A man is dogged by the vision of a seemingly innocuous rural scene that he becomes convinced is a harbinger of death.This original recording is an aud...
"Carlton's Father" by Eric Ambrose
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Esor McIre, in his duties as County Surveyor, is called upon to inspect the property of his old schoolfriend Carlton, it awakens an old curiosity...
"The Menhir" by N. Dennett
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The new curate in a remote village fails to heed the local superstitions surrounding a mysterious monolith (menhir) known as “The Grey Gammer”.Thi...
"The Lover of the Dead" | "The Witch Finder"
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories about lonely travellers seeking shelter…who find more than they bargained for. In “The Lover of the Dead”, a stranded motorist uncov...
"The Trains"
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When two friends hiking in the Pennines become lost, they think their fortunes have changed when they find refuge in the old Roper house. But as the n...
"Mr. Tilly's Séance" by E. F. Benson
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After being run over by a traction engine, Mr Tilly – now a spirit – elects to keep his appointment at a séance with the famed medium Mrs Cumberb...
"The Underbody" by Alison V. Harding
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nothing will ever be the same again for a country doctor when his son finds something deeply disturbing buried in the ground.This original recording i...
"The Firing Chamber" by John Metcalfe
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When a worker at the local potteries burns to death in a freak industrial accident, the Reverend Noah Scallard develops a morbid obsession with his pa...
"On the Embankment" by Hugh E. Wright
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the secret of the curiously empty seat on the Embankment between the Avenue and Westminster Bridge?This original recording is an audio present...
"The Devil Doll" by Frederick E. Smith
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dark rumours surround a famous stage ventriloquist. Does his dummy contain the soul of his former partner?This original recording is an audio presenta...
"The Playfellow" by Lady Cynthia Asquith
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Having relocated their family to her husband’s ancestral home, Laura becomes concerned by their daughter’s increasingly naughty and wilful behavio...
"The Garden That Was Desolate" by Ulric Daubeny
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Walking in the Cotswolds, a man encounters a strange garden with unfinished walls and its even stranger owner. But what – or who – is this fortres...
"More Than Shadow" by Dorothy Quick
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A family adopts a stray poodle who charms its way into their lives, but were the strange portents that heralded the little dog's arrival more than sha...
"Fetch" by Rebecca Lloyd
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A recently married man becomes convinced that his wife is haunted by a disturbing doppelgänger – perhaps a “fetch” – that only he can see. Th...
"The Bus Driver's Fear of Change" by Jasper L'Estrange
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A bus driver recalls the highs and lows of his life in this dark and blackly comic monologue. This is a bit of an experiment for me, inspired by the p...
"Dracula's Guest" by Bram Stoker
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Visiting Munich on his way to Transylvania, an Englishman ignores the warnings of the hotelier and coach driver in order to explore an abandoned villa...
"The Lily-White Boy" by Adam Macqueen
12 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When their son leaves for university, a couple’s discovery of some old photographs and letters in the attic reveals a family secret and sets in moti...
"Ganthony's Wife" by E. Temple Thurston
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With the Stennings and their guests gathered round the fireplace on Christmas Eve, Northanger offers to share a very different ghost story, based on a...
"Boxing Night" by E. F. Benson
29 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two sisters share a premonition of a violent burglary the night after Christmas…one which threatens to be realised when they receive a knock at the ...
"Count Magnus" by M. R. James
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Researching Scandinavia for a travel guide, a writer named Wraxall is invited on to the estate of the De La Gardie family where he becomes obsessed wi...
"Lucky's Grove" by H. Russell Wakefield
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With preparations underway for another lavish family Christmas, the Braxton estate is buzzing with activity. But the digging up of a fir tree from the...
"The Little Ghost" by Hugh Walpole
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Staying at a country house, while coming to terms with the sudden death of a close friend, a man realises that he may not be entirely alone… Thi...
"The Waits" by L. P. Hartley
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sitting down to dinner on Christmas Eve, the Marriner family are pleasantly surprised when Christmas “waits” pay them a visit, singing carols at t...
"Christmas Honeymoon" by Howard Spring
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A newlywed couple venture to Cornwall for their honeymoon, but when night falls they find themselves hopelessly lost…until they find a sign pointing...
"Transition" by Algernon Blackwood
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Mudbury is returning home to his wife and children, laden with Christmas presents, when he experiences a brush with mortality that profoundly cha...
"The Chinese Apple" by Marjorie Bowen
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Returning, somewhat reluctantly, to her childhood home to rendezvous with her recently bereaved niece, Isabelle Crosland soon becomes entangled in a s...
"A Warning to the Curious" by M. R. James
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two friends staying at a hotel in out-of-season Seaburgh meet fellow guest Paxton, a young man whose curiosity has led him to seek out a buried Anglo-...
"Oberon Road" by A. M. Burrage
23 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Returning from work one winter evening, a lonely Londoner discovers a magical place when his journey home leads him down a road he has never seen befo...
"The Transfer" by Algernon Blackwood
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A governess experiences a strange sequence of events over the course of one hot summer’s day, involving a young child, a visiting uncle, and a sinis...
"Animate in Death" by L.A. Lewis
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Psychic researcher Eyston accepts an invitation to join his friend Raymond Cary for a fishing expedition on the Norfolk Broads. But it soon transpires...
"Deborah" by Josephine Tey
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When a married couple chance upon a delightful cottage that is being let as a holiday home, it seems too good to be true. Is it? This original recor...
"Shuck" by Rebecca Lloyd
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Visiting her twin sister at her new home in the isolated backwater of Thrubend Edge, a woman becomes drawn into a sinister web of madness and local fo...
"Lot No. 249" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A medical student at Oxford University becomes embroiled in a sinister mystery when he is introduced to a neighbour whose interest in Egyptology is ab...
"The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Following a night of drunken excess, an Englishman in India desecrates a temple, angering a leper priest. Soon after, he begins behaving very oddly. H...
"The Singular Death of Morton" by Algernon Blackwood
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two friends hiking in the French hills of the Jura bordering Switzerland have a strange encounter with a mysterious girl at a derelict farmhouse. But ...
"The Magic Shop" by H.G. Wells
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A boy and his father pay a visit to a tiny shop in the heart of London, one that sells magic tricks and curiosities – and promises “genuine magic”...
"Fish Head" by Irvin S. Cobb
29 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Reelfoot Lake, a backwoods bayou of the American South, lives an outcast freak – a lonely swamp dweller whose fishy features have earned him a st...
"The Child" by L.A. Lewis
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Staying in a village while his motorcycle is repaired, a traveller learns of an horrific episode in the village’s recent past as well as the locals’...
"The Curious Adventure of Mr. Bond" by Nugent Barker
21 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A lost traveller finds refuge in a desolate upland inn. At first he is grateful for the hospitality of the innkeeper and his wife, but the peculiar be...
"The Haunted Saucepan" by Margery Lawrence
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A bachelor is delighted to find a flat with a “fleabite rent” in the St. James’s district of London. It seems too good to be true. But when quee...
"Crewe" by Walter de la Mare
08 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One night, in the desolate waiting room at Crewe, a stranded train passenger hears the strange story of how the former servant to a country vicar ende...
"Harry" by Rosemary Timperley
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When a young girl starts talking to an imaginary friend, her adoptive mother becomes increasingly unsettled. It’s almost as if she can really see hi...
"The Lonesome Place" by August Derleth
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In August Derleth’s classic short story a man is forced to recall the lurking fear that dogged him and his friend in their childhood…the dark and ...
"Hybrid" by L.A. Lewis
07 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Urged by his friend to tell the story of a particularly disturbing case, Dr Xavier “Billy” Cole recounts the strange events surrounding a mutual f...
"Behind the Wall" by Violet Jacob
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Visiting the town of Shorn for a weekend of golf, a young man sees more than he bargained for when peering through a hole in an old wall. Gradually, h...
"Green Thoughts" by John Collier
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An orchid collector plants a strange and exotic specimen in his hothouse…with unfortunate consequences. This original recording is an audio present...
"Breakdown" by L.A.G. Strong
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An adulterous man finds himself driven to murder – and thinks he has plotted the perfect crime. But soon his carefully ordered world begins to unrav...
"The Fifteenth Green" by Margery Lawrence
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Invited to share his story at Saunderson’s Round Table, a golfer provides a terrifying account of an old fisherman, a vengeful curse, and the myster...
"The Grey House" by John Metcalfe
18 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When old Hammond finds himself one night driven to a mysterious house by a phantom taxi cab, he determines to try and find the Grey House again by any...
"The Wood of Living Trees" by G. Ranger Wormser
11 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From the moment Manners is first introduced to a charismatic Russian named Andreyvich, he develops an intense distrust of the man. But why does he fee...
"The Story of The Inexperienced Ghost" by H. G. Wells
05 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One evening at the Mermaid Club, Clayton shares his strange supernatural encounter of the night before. But has he learned too much from his conversat...
"The Bowmen" / "Out of the Earth" by Arthur Machen
21 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1914 Arthur Machen published “The Bowmen”, a patriotic supernatural tale intended to boost the morale of British soldiers fighting in the trenc...
"Kecksies" by Marjorie Bowen
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two debauched noblemen seek refuge in the cottage of Goody Boyle one stormy night. When they find out that her home is the last resting place of a mut...
"An Experiment of the Dead" by Helen de Guerry Simpson
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Reverend Dionysius Luan asks to visit his cousin who is in prison awaiting execution, the solicitor begins to wonder whether he has an ulterior m...
"The Next Heir" by H. D. Everett
10 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A Canadian soldier journeys to England in response to an advertisement seeking the heir to his ancestral home Quinton Court. On visiting his cousin, a...
"Forgotten Harbour" by Gordon Hillman
25 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
America's foremost authority on poltergeists, the indomitable Cranshawe, is called in to investigate the mysterious occurrences at a fogbound coas...
"The Black Stone Statue" by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The resident of a rundown boarding house becomes intrigued when a familiar face comes seeking a room. The man has returned from South America with a s...
"Grey Sand and White Sand" by Helen de Guerry Simpson
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ANNOUNCEMENT: I have receive comments (admittedly by only one user) that the podcast does not play for them. I have received no other reports of this ...
"The Hall Bedroom" by Mary E Wilkins Freeman
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The landlady of a boarding-house relates the strange history of the third floor hall bedroom through the journal left by its latest tenant: a man in t...
"Oh, Whistle and I'll Come To You, My Lad" by M. R. James
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Parkins is spending the winter holiday improving his golf at the seaside town of Burnstow when he makes a strange discovery at the site of a...
"The Horror of Abbot's Grange" by Frederick Cowles
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When a married couple take up residence at Abbot’s Grange, the husband has reservations about the place, especially when he learns about its dark hi...
"The Breakdown" by Marjorie Bowen
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On his way to spend Christmas with his friend, a man is stranded when the train does not run. Deciding to complete his journey on foot, he soon become...
"The Last Laugh" by D. H. Lawrence
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A group of young people are out and about one snowy night in Hampstead, Northwest London, when strange laughter and mysterious voices seem to be chang...
"Mrs Raeburn's Waxwork" by Lady Eleanor Smith
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stranded in a rainy manufacturing city and in need of money, a down-on-his-luck actor accepts a job at Mugivan’s Waxworks. But when dusk falls, the ...
"Field with Five Trees" by Hugh Walpole
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When their previously happy marriage becomes strained, an author considers an affair? But could he ever leave his beloved Mary? And what is the secret...
"The New Mother" by Lucy Clifford (plus Bonus Story)
12 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Two children are encouraged to misbehave by a mysterious girl in the village. Their mother warns them what will happen if their naughtiness persists…...
"Strange Bedfellows" by Jasper L'Estrange
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Staying at a hotel on a business trip, a middle-aged man has a variety of bizarre experiences. But who is the old woman in the elevator...and will he...
"The House in the Wood" by John Hastings Turner
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Robbie McClaren suggests that they should go for a walking holiday in the Savernake Forest, his friend thinks it’s a good idea. But the mysteri...
"The Horror-Horn" by E. F. Benson
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While on holiday in the Swiss Alps, a man learns of a race of subhuman cave dwellers supposedly live on the Ungeheurehorn – The Horror-Horn. He dism...
"Fear" by P. C. Wren
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While travelling through “unadministered territory” in Southeast Asia an Englishman is forced to spend the night at an abandoned and dilapidated j...
"Scoured Silk" by Marjorie Bowen
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Elisa Minden is due to be married to a wealthy scholar Humphrey Orford. But as the wedding day draws near she starts to wonder about Mr Orford’s fir...
"The Childish Thing" by John Metcalfe
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The death of the Hewson family's housemaid prompts eight-year-old Dulcie to explore the woodshed. The curious wax figurine she finds there, hidden...
"Jack Werrett, The Flood Man" by Rebecca Lloyd
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Megan Wood thinks the Georgian house on the edge of a desolate Norfolk marsh will be the perfect place for her research into local churches. But th...
"Martin's Close" by M.R. James
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The written record of a 17th-century murder trial takes an unusual turn when witnesses relate seemingly supernatural occurences. But through the...
"Bloody Bill" by Reggie Oliver
12 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Two Eton schoolboys bond over their interest in Egyptology, but the burgeoning friendship is overshadowed by the presence of a former Eton master call...
"Mr. Huffam" by Hugh Walpole
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I hope you indulge me with this reading of a charming seasonal story by Hugh Walpole that is mysterious, maybe, but not in any way horrific... This he...
"Mr. Meldrum's Mania" by John Metcalfe
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Amos Meldrum begins experiencing the strange sensation of having an invisible (yet palpable) nose in place of his own, his friends and acquaintan...
"Satan's Circus" by Lady Eleanor Smith
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Keen to know more about the mysterious and infamous Circus Brandt, a woman encourages her juggler friend to recount the grisly sequence of events that...
"The Mainz Psalter" by Jean Ray
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A well-travelled seaman is hired by a mysterious individual known as The Schoolmaster to take him and his ship through hellish waters to Cape Wrath on...
"The Hands of Mr. Ottermole" by Thomas Burke
21 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An East End community is terrorised by a serial killer with a seemingly supernatural ability to disappear. When the local police fail to a...
"The Human Chair" by Edogawa Ranpo
14 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A writer receives an unexpected letter in which a lowly chairmaker confesses to a bizarre and disturbing trangression. This original recording i...
"The Gorgon's Head" by Gertrude Bacon
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Captain Brander's reputation as a teller of tall tales precedes him, but is the strange account he relates to his passenger, Miss Baker, of what...