EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast
Episodes
"Levitation" by Joseph Payne Brennan
23 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The good people of Riverville turn out in droves for the arrival of Morgan's Wonder Carnival, but when a bad-tempered hypnotist takes to the &nb...
"Gone Away" by A.E. Coppard
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A married couple and their friend are travelling in France when a series of strange events causes them to become increasingly disoriented. But &...
"Decay" by J.C. Moore
19 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Old Mr. Cotter decides to celebrate his birthday with a walk in the woods of his rambling country estate. But do the trees seem to mimic h...
"Time To Kill" by Henry Kuttner
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the midst of a devastating undeclared war, two men are holed up in an abandoned office block when one of them apparently starts to telep...
"The First Sheaf" by H.R. Wakefield
12 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Old Porteous tells his friend about his strange experiences as a boy in Reedley End, an isolated parish plagued by drought and crop failur...
"The Cairn" by H.R. Wakefield
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
*****NOTE: This is a re-upload due to a problem with the audio file.***** Two friends holidaying in the Lake District show an interest in climbing &nb...
"How Love Came To Professor Guildea" PART TWO by Robert Hichens
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the concluding part of the story, Professor Guildea sets out to prove to Father Murchison that there is a supernatural being in his hou...
"Bad Company" by Walter de la Mare
28 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A man becomes intrigued by the sinister old man he meets on the London Underground. Despite his misgivings, he feels strangely compelled t...
"The Music Lover" by Jasper L'Estrange
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's another EnCrypted Original! In my new story a lonely concertgoer with a passion for classical music becomes infatuated with a young female cellis...
"The Meerschaum Pipe" by L.A. Lewis
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A widower retires to a country house that was once occupied by a serial killer. His hopes of a quiet life are quickly dashed when there is...
"The Southton Mermaid" by Jasper L'Estrange
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An unhappy couple are holidaying with their children in a seaside town. When the husband suggests taking a tour of a mysterious "museum" i...
"Seashore Macabre" by Hugh Walpole
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Holidaying at Seascale in Cumbria, a young boy has a strange encounter on the beach. This is an audio presentation of "Seashore Macabre: A Momen...
"One Who Saw" by A.M. Burrage
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Researching his book on Joan of Arc, Simon Crutchley finds himself staying in Rouen, France. But, unknown to him, his hotel has a tragedy ...
"I Seen Her" by Rebecca Lloyd
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A woman living in a rural village becomes increasingly curious about the relationship between two young men and the unseen woman who seems to &n...
"Tarnhelm" by Hugh Walpole
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A shy but imaginative young boy is sent to stay with his strange uncles in Cumberland and begins to uncover their sinister secrets while b...
"The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | SHERLOCK HOLMES
09 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A young woman is concerned about the strange terms of her offer of employment as a governess and consults the master detective Sherlock Ho...
"The Headless Leper" by Frederick Cowles
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A young lad has a terrifying experience while visiting his grandparents in East Anglia. Revisiting the scene in later life he learns more about ...
"The Haunted Dolls' House" by M.R. James
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mr Dillet can't believe his luck when he acquires an antique dolls' house at a bargain price. Once he gets it home, however, the house begins to...
"A View From A Hill" by M.R. James
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Fanshawe visits his friend Squire Richards and becomes intrigued by the tower he glimpses through the binoculars the Squire inherited from the mysteri...
"The Trains Don't Stop Here" by M.R. Cosby
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Backpacking in Australia, a British traveller becomes separated from his friend and winds up in an isolated coal-mining town, only to be told "the tra...
"Old Man's Beard" by H.R. Wakefield
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Horace Bickley becomes worried when his soon-to-be-married daughter begins to experience horribly vivid dreams of a grey-bearded man. He c...
"Fellow Traveller" by Jasper L'Estrange: An EnCrypted Original
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A friendly lorry-driver offers a lift to a stranded motorist, but is his passenger harbouring a deadly secret...? This is an audio presentation ...
"What Comes?" by Rebecca Lloyd
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A married couple attempt to start a new life in the country, but the unwelcome discovery of an old shoe buried in the thatched roof seems to cast a sh...
An EnCrypted Christmas: "Thurlow's Christmas Story" by John Kendrick Bangs
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Henry Thurlow is commissioned to write a Christmas ghost story for The Idler magazine, but when he is struck by a bout of writer's block an &nbs...
An EnCrypted Christmas: "The Earth Draws" by Jonas Lie
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this dark Norwegian folk tale, a young shop assistant accidentally chances upon the secret stores of the hidden underground people - and &nbs...
An EnCrypted Christmas: "Christmas Reunion" by Sir Andrew Caldecott
05 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mr and Mrs Dreyton become suspicious of their Christmas house guest, Clarence Love. When events take a dark turn, Mr Dreyton tries to unravel th...
"Proxy" by John Metcalfe
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A lonely magazine illustrator is haunted by dreams of a beautiful woman - but is she real or merely a product of his imagination? This is an aud...
"The Nature of the Evidence" by May Sinclair
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When his wife dies, a senior barrister quickly remarries - but what would his dead wife think of his chosen partner...? This is an audio presentation ...
"Luz" by Elinor Mordaunt
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A woman on her way home gets lost when a thick fog descends on London. In desperation, she accepts help from a mysterious blind man. But is he leading...
EnCrypted HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: "The Night of a 1000 Ghouls"
30 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the EnCrypted Classic Horror HALLOWEEN SPECIAL..."The Night of 1000 Ghouls"! A reclusive man living in an isolated cottag...
"Beyond The Door" by Paul Suter
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Visiting his late entomologyst uncle's house, a man learns about the sinister events leading up to his relative's untimely death. This is an aud...
"Unburied Bane" by N. Dennett
16 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The wife of a playwright stays in a dilapidated farmhouse while her husband works on his latest play. But she is horrified by the old woman who ...
"Revenge" by Samuel Blas
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While on honeymoon, a man returns to home to find his wife has been attacked by a travelling salesman. How far will he go to take his revenge? This is...
"His Beautiful Hands" by Oscar Cook
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Boozy Warwick regales his friend with the macabre and gruesome tale of a concert violinist who keeps visiting his manicurist even though his hands are...
National Poetry Day 2021 Special: "The Listeners" and other spooky poems
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A collection of haunting and spooky poetry for UK National Poetry Day 2021. Read by Jasper L'Estrange for EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Po...
"The Man Who Liked Dickens" by Evelyn Waugh
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In an effort to win back his unfaithful wife, an upper-class Englishman joins an expedition to follow the Uraricoera River in South America. Things qu...
"Randalls Round" by Eleanor Scott
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An Oxford student, Heyling, visits a village in the Cotswolds for a restful break...but what is the truth behind the folk song and dance p...
"No Ships Pass" by Lady Eleanor Smith
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After a yacht catches fire and Paterson swims to the safety of a desert island, he soon finds out he is not the first castaway to wash up on its...
"Outside The House" by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor
19 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An injured army major falls in love with his nurse, but, when he goes to stay with her family at her ancestral home, he finds their behaviour strange ...
"Chance's Motto" by Jasper L'Estrange | An EnCrypted Original Story
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Whodunnit" writer Amelia Cramphorne seeks to engineer a love-match between two eligible singletons in her village - but starts to have second thought...
"The Tarn" by Hugh Walpole
12 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An unsuccessful novelist harbours a bitter resentment towards a literary rival. But when his supposed nemesis visits his lakeland home, why does he fe...
"The Dream" by A.J. Alan | An EnCrypted Vintage Radio Special
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A vintage radio special of EnCrypted, returning once again to the whimsical uncanny shaggy dog stories of A.J. Alan. In "The Dream", Alan recounts the...
"Lost Keep" by L.A. Lewis
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A young man inherits an intricate miniature castle and a mysterious lens - along with the promise of wealth and power if he unlocks its secrets....
"The Silver Mask" by Hugh Walpole
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A spinster takes pity on a handsome young stranger who has fallen on hard times. But will she regret inviting this charming man into her beautiful Lon...
"The Man With No Face" by G.M. Robins
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A wife has a terrifying vision that leads her to fear for her husband's safety and her own sanity. But is the vision a manifestation of her husb...
"With and Without Buttons" by Mary Butts
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Two sisters decide to play a spooky prank on their rationalist male neighbour - but what strange and malevolent entity has their scheming woken up?&nb...
"The Music of Erich Zann" by H.P. Lovecraft
28 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An impoverished student in France becomes enchanted by the music of a mute viol player, Erich Zann. But what is the secret of Erich's haunting m...
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A woman forced to rest by her physician husband becomes fascinated and repulsed by the ghastly yellow decor of her room. But is there really some...
"The Sea Raiders" by H.G. Wells
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A mysterious new species of killer squid begin appearing off the Devonshire coast - with terrifying consequences - in this classic horror story by H.G...
"The Doll" by Algernon Blackwood
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A mysterious stranger delivers a doll to the house of a retired Colonel who immediately calls for it to be destroyed. Instead, his neglected young dau...
"Young Strickland's Career" by J.D. Beresford
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Are our lives predetermined? A father is anxious to see into the future to find out what his son will achieve...but what is the meaning of the bizarre...
"The Waxwork" by A.M. Burrage
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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"Eyes for the Blind" by Frederick Cowles
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A man called John Dangerfield has been arrested for a spate of eye-gougings, but the motorcycling monk who visits him recognises the prisoner as a Lon...
"Brickett Bottom" by Amyas Northcote
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A vicar and his two daughters go to stay at a parsonage in a remote English village. When the eldest daughter sees an old red-brick house in an overgr...
"The House on the Marsh" by Frederick Cowles
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A man is surprised to inherit a large house in Norfolk when his sinister Uncle Slade passes away. But why do awful black flies swarm in the attic? Why...
"Unseen - Unfeared" by Francis Stevens
17 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After dinner with his detective friend, a man walks home through a poor neighbourhood and starts to feel menaced by its inhabitants. Feeling strange, ...
"By One, By Two and By Three" by Adrian Ross
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Savage, bloodthirsty attacks begin to happen to those in the orbit of Angus Macbane, distant descendant of a Scottish warlock, in this hard-to-find sh...
An EnCrypted Special: "The Diver" by A.J. Alan
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nottingham-born A.J. Alan (real name: Leslie Harrison Lambert) was a performing magician, radio ham, volunteer coastguard radio operator, and naval in...
"The Cone" by H.G. Wells
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The wealthy owner of a Staffordshire ironworks discovers his wife is having an affair with their friend, an artist. His discovery of their illicit try...
"Negotium Perambulans" by E.F. Benson
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A young boy convalesces in an isolated Cornish fishing village and is told a local legend about an emissary from the darkness that punishes the desolu...
"The Graveyard Rats" by Henry Kuttner
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Old Masson supplements his job as caretaker of a Salem cemetery with a spot of grave-robbing. Unfortunately, he's up against the giant rats...and some...
"Man Size in Marble" by E. Nesbit
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A young couple begin their married life by moving to a cottage built on the ruins of an old house. They soon learn of a local legend about the house a...
"The Ash Tree" by M.R. James
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1690, the county of Suffolk is wracked with a fear of witches - but when Mrs Mothersole is accused of witchcraft by the lord of Castringham Hall an...
"Let Loose" by Mary Cholmondeley
29 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An aspiring architect is drawn to the remote Yorkshire parish of Wet Waste-on-the-Wolds in order to study a frescoed wall in the church crypt. But the...
"Seaton's Aunt" by Walter de la Mare
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A schoolboy is reluctantly drawn into the unhappy world of Arthur Seaton - a bullied outsider with a domineering aunt he believes communicates wit...
"The Pale Man" by Julius Long
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A college assistant professor on forced vacation becomes intrigued by the mysterious behaviour of a tall, pale stranger at the country hotel at which ...
"Pickman's Model" by H.P. Lovecraft
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Boston painter Richard Upton Pickman has gained notoriety within the city's artistic circles, but caused scandal with his harrowing depictions of a de...
"The Riddle" by Walter de la Mare
09 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
De la Mare's dark fairytale was first published in 1923 and has been puzzling readers ever since. When seven children are sent to live with their agei...
"The Night Wire" by H.F. Arnold
01 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If this is your first time with The Night Wire, I will give you the headlines. Two night wire guys are receiving news reports over the wire, a j...
"The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR! Today's story is a true horror classic: 'The Monkey's Paw' by W.W. Jacobs. An elderly couple come into possession of a m...
"August Heat" by W.F. Harvey
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today's story is 'August Heat' by W.F. Harvey. In this sinister short, a London artist has an uncanny encounter with a stranger who is also strangely ...
"Gabriel-Ernest" by Saki
17 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We launch a brand-new series of short story readings with this chilling and blackly comic classic from Saki. Written in 1909, the story of 'Gabriel-Er...