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Season 22 bonus episodes 90-112
Title and Author
Brief description
90
“The Empty House” — Algernon Blackwood
A classic haunted-house story: two curious visitors enter a long-abandoned house and slowly realize the old violence inside it has not gone away.
91
“The Judge’s House” — Bram Stoker
A student rents a gloomy old house once owned by a cruel judge, then finds the place still ruled by rats, dread, and a hanging shadow.
92a
“Laura” — Saki / H. H. Munro
A sharp, darkly funny reincarnation story about a mischievous woman who may return after death in a very inconvenient form.
92b
“Man-Size in Marble” — E. Nesbit
A newly married couple dismisses a local legend about marble knight effigies that walk at night; this proves unwise.
93
“Phantasmagoria” — Lewis Carroll
A comic ghost poem, more playful than frightening, about ghostly rules, manners, and the absurd bureaucracy of haunting.
94
“Schalken the Painter” — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A Gothic tale of art, money, and damnation, centered on a young painter, a lost love, and a sinister suitor who may not be alive.
95A
“The Shadows on the Wall” — Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
After a family death, strange shadows appear on the wall, turning grief, guilt, and suspicion into a supernatural judgment.
95B
“Tales of Treasure” — Anonymous
A very short treasure-haunting piece; more of a compact eerie anecdote than a full plotted ghost story.
96
“The Trial for Murder” — Charles Dickens
A murder victim’s ghost appears around the trial of the accused killer, pushing the living world toward justice.
97A
“Uncle Abraham’s Romance” — E. Nesbit
A gentle, melancholy ghost-romance about an old man, a beautiful portrait, and a love story touched by death.
97B
“The Beast in the Cave” — H. P. Lovecraft
An early Lovecraft story: a man lost in a cave hears something coming through the dark, and the final reveal is grim and human.
98
“The Ebony Frame” — E. Nesbit
A haunted-portrait romance in which a woman in an old picture seems able to step out of the frame, but at a terrible cost.
99
“The Red Room” — H. G. Wells
A skeptic spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers that the true ghost may be fear itself.
100
“The Bell in the Fog” — Gertrude Atherton
A Henry James-flavored Gothic story about an inherited English estate, old portraits, reincarnation, and family tragedy.
101
“The Ghost Club” — John Kendrick Bangs
A comic supernatural story about crime, ghosts, and absurd afterlife logic; lighter and more satirical than scary.
102A
“A Ghost Story” — Mark Twain
Twain turns the haunted-room setup into a comic ghost story, playing with superstition and mistaken identity.
102B
“A Psychical Prank” — John Kendrick Bangs
Corrected from “Physical Prank.” A humorous Bangs ghost tale built around spiritualism, trickery, and supernatural mischief.
103
“A Midnight Visitor” — John Kendrick Bangs
A comic supernatural visit in the night, with Bangs’s usual mix of ghosts, manners, and absurd afterlife complications.
104A
“A Quicksilver Cassandra” — John Kendrick Bangs
Corrected author/title. A satirical ghostly fantasy about prophecy, warning, and not being believed.
104B
“The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall” — John Kendrick Bangs
A funny Christmas ghost story about a soggy apparition who floods the ancestral house every year.
105
“The Chromatic Ghosts of Thomas” — Ellis Parker Butler
A comic “ghost cat” story involving Thomas the cat and a colorful supernatural problem.
106
“Phantom” — Arnold Bennet
107A
“An Astral Onion” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A strange little supernatural story with Peattie’s mix of humor, domestic life, and odd spiritual machinery.
107B
“The Haunted Orchard” — Richard Le Gallienne
A lyrical ghost story about an orchard haunted by memory, beauty, and possibly the spirit of a young girl.
108
“Glamis Castle” — Elliott O’Donnell
A haunted-castle account built around the legends of Glamis, full of old-family dread and spectral atmosphere.
109
“The Return of Imray” — Rudyard Kipling
Corrected spelling: Kipling. A colonial ghost/mystery story about a vanished man whose return is not what anyone expects.
110A
“Since I Died” — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
A sentimental supernatural piece told from beyond death, focused on grief, love, and the living left behind.
110B
“On the Northern Ice” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A short icy ghost story, also known in some listings as “The Spectre Bride.”
111
“The Withered Arm” — Thomas Hardy
A dark rural tale of jealousy, folk belief, class, and bodily curse, with the bleak fatalism Hardy does so well.
112
“The Yellow Wallpaper” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A woman confined for a “rest cure” becomes obsessed with the room’s wallpaper; psychological horror and feminist classic.