'Honeysuckle Cottage' by P.G. Wodehouse: with Julia Armfield
Release Date: 10/08/2025
'A Wicked Voice' by Vernon Lee with Brontë Schiltz
The Ghost Story Book Club
In Series 5, Episode 7 join me, , and my guest, Brontë Schiltz, as we discuss 'A Wicked Voice' by Vernon Lee. Brontë Schiltz is a writer, journalist and PhD candidate researching the Televisual Gothic at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. Her creative work has been published in Hungry Ghost Magazine, Olney Magazine and Lotus-Eater Magazine, as well as Comma Press collections The Book of Manchester (2024) and The Monster, Capital (2025). Her debut collection is forthcoming. She is the members coordinator of the International Gothic...
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LIVE EPISODE: Night of the Demon and M.R. James with Brontë Schiltz
The Ghost Story Book Club
In Series 5, Episode 6 join me, , for a LIVE episode of the podcast, recorded at The Dukes, Lancaster, on Tuesday 28 October 2025, as part of their 'Spooked' festival. I was joined on stage, after a screening of Night of the Demon (1957), by writer and academic researcher Brontë Schiltz and academic, writer and poet Professor Catherine Spooner for a discussion about the film and M.R. James's enduring appeal. Also in this episode, you'll hear the DEADVAULT trailer! Please consider supporting us in our fundraiser . SUPPORT...
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'In the Tube' by E.F. Benson with Adam Farrer
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In Series 5, Episode 5 join me, , and my guest, Adam Farrer as we discuss 'In the Tube' by E.F. Benson. Adam Farrer is a writer, lecturer, mentor and editor based in Manchester, UK. His debut essay collection, Cold Fish Soup (Saraband, 2022), won the NorthBound Book Award and the follow-up, Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures, was published in the UK by HarperNorth in February 2025 and was published in the US on November 4th 2025 Listen to Adam Farrer's ghost story 'The Only' Adam Farrer's : **CONTENT WARNING: As mentioned in the episode, as part of our...
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'A View from a Hill' by M.R. James with Andrew Michael Hurley
The Ghost Story Book Club
In Series 5, Episode 4 join me, , and my guest, Andrew Michael Hurley, as we discuss 'A View from a Hill' by M.R. James. Andrew Michael Hurley's first novel, The Loney, was originally published by Tartarus Press as a 300-copy limited-edition, before being republished by John Murray. It went on to sell in twenty languages, win the Costa Best First Novel Award and Book of the Year at the British Book Industry Awards. Devil's Day, his second novel, was picked as a Book of the Year in five newspapers and won the Encore Award. Starve Acre was published by John Murray in...
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'The Haunting of Hill House' by Shirley Jackson: with Evelyn Hollow
The Ghost Story Book Club
In Series 5, Episode 3 join me, , and my guest, as we discuss 'The Haunting of Hill House' by Shirley Jackson. Evelyn Hollow is a Scottish writer and paranormal psychologist. She was a resident author at for several years, was the recipient of the 2015 Lonely Planet Travel Writing Scholarship, the occult columnist for Corvid Culture, has written numerous articles for Haunted magazine, and has taught writing classes at everywhere from universities to arts festivals. She has also been featured in exhibitions at ESAF and is the creator...
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'Don't Look Now' by Daphne Du Maurier: with Colin Walsh
The Ghost Story Book Club
In Series 5, Episode 2 join me, , and my guest, Colin Walsh as we discuss 'Don't Look Now' by Daphne Du Maurier. Colin Walsh's short stories have won several awards including the RTE Francis MacManus Short Story Prize and the Hennessy Literary Award. In 2019 he was named Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year. His writing has been published in the Stinging Fly, the Irish Times and broadcast on RTE Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4. KALA is his first novel. He is from Galway and lives in Belgium. MY LIVE SHOWS: Come and see me on tour with Darkness &...
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'Honeysuckle Cottage' by P.G. Wodehouse: with Julia Armfield
The Ghost Story Book Club
In Series 5, Episode 1 join me, , and my guest, as we discuss 'Honeysuckle Cottage' by P.G. Wodehouse. Julia Armfield is a fiction writer, living in London. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award. She was longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Award 2018, and won the White Review Short Story Prize 2018 and a Pushcart Prize in 2020. She is the author of salt slow, a collection of short stories, which was longlisted for the Polari Prize 2020 and the Edge Hill Prize 2020. Her debut novel, Our Wives Under The Sea, was shortlisted...
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SERIES 5 TRAILER (plus Autumn/Winter Events)
The Ghost Story Book Club
The Ghost Story Book Club rises from the dead! Series 5 begins Wednesday 8 October. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Come and see me on tour... Join us on Bluesky Join our Facebook Group Support us on
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Christmas Special 2024: with Jenn Ashworth and Andrew Michael Hurley
The Ghost Story Book Club
In the second of our 2024 Christmas Specials - join me, , and my guests Jenn Ashworth (author of Ghosted, A Kind of Intimacy and Fell) and Andrew Michael Hurley (author of The Loney, Starve Acre and Barrowbeck). We discussed three ghost stories for Christmas: Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk by Frank Cowper The Glamour of the Snow by Algernon BlackwoodDon't Tell Cissy by Celia Fremlin Jenn Ashworth is novelist and Professor of Writing at Lancaster University. Her novels include A Kind of Intimacy, The Friday Gospels and Fell. She was elected a Fellow of...
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Christmas Special 2024: with Mike Muncer - 'The Signalman' (1976) and 'A View From a Hill' (2005)
The Ghost Story Book Club
In the first of our 2024 Christmas Specials - join me, , and my guest, in this episode (recorded live on Zoom on 11 December 2024) as we discuss two classic BBC Ghost Story for Christmas films, 'The Signalman' (1976) and 'A View From a Hill' (2005). Mike Muncer is the host and creator of , a weekly podcast in which he explores the history of the horror genre by delving into particular sub-genres across several weeks. Each episode Mike is joined by a different guest: a critic, filmmaker or expert, to discuss a particular film in depth, to look at its place within...
info_outlineIn Series 5, Episode 1 join me, Adam Z. Robinson, and my guest, Julia Armfield as we discuss 'Honeysuckle Cottage' by P.G. Wodehouse.
Julia Armfield is a fiction writer, living in London. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award. She was longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Award 2018, and won the White Review Short Story Prize 2018 and a Pushcart Prize in 2020. She is the author of salt slow, a collection of short stories, which was longlisted for the Polari Prize 2020 and the Edge Hill Prize 2020. Her debut novel, Our Wives Under The Sea, was shortlisted for the Foyles Fiction Book of the Year Award 2022 and won the Polari Prize 2023. Her second novel, Private Rites, was longlisted for the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize in 2024.
Private Rites is out now in paperback, available from all good bookshops.
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