{"podcast":{"title":"The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast","slug":"the-classic-ghost-stories-podcast-421206","podcast_index_feed_id":421206,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/7002956/episodes/feed","website_url":"http://www.classicghost.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/8a15de31d0a499398c4e04f4f8c6dc66.jpg","author":"Tony Walker","episode_count":375,"summary":"A weekly podcast that reads out ghost stories, horror stories, and weird tales every week. Classic stories from the pens of the masters Occasionally, we feature living authors, but the majority are dead. Some perhaps are undead. We go from cosy Edwardian ghost stories (E. F. Benson, Walter De La Mare) to Victorian supernatural mysteries (M. R. James, Elizabeth Gaskell, Bram Stoker, and Charles Dickens) to 20th-century Weird Tales (Robert Aickman, Fritz Lieber, Clark Ashton-Smith, and H. P. Lovecraft) and wander from the Gothic to the Odd, even to the Literary, and then back again. Each episode is followed by Tony's take on the story, its author, its content and any literary considerations, which may be useful to students! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-classic-ghost-stories-podcast--7002956/support .","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-classic-ghost-stories-podcast-421206"},"episode":{"title":"A Message for Julia by R A Sunter","slug":"a-message-for-julia-by-r-a-sunter","published_at":"2026-01-13T11:29:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-classic-ghost-stories-podcast-421206/a-message-for-julia-by-r-a-sunter","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-classic-ghost-stories-podcast-421206","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-message-for-julia-by-r-a-sunter--71815938","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71815938/cgs8614474513.mp3","summary":"Jean-Pierre Ducharme and Ms. Esmeralda Spinoza are experts in the delicate architecture of the séance. Inside the stillness of Julia Silverman’s game room, they prepare to reach across the divide for a daughter lost four months prior. It is a space of flickering candles, soft whispers, and the heavy weight of a mother’s grief. But as the circle joins hands, the atmosphere begins to curdle. The familiar rituals start to feel unpredictable, and a coldness settles that no draft can explain. They have spent years navigating the boundaries of the unknown, but tonight, those boundaries are no longer holding. \"A Message for Julia\" was first broadcast on The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast in January 2025. Roy Sunter is a New Hampshire-based author. Roy Sunter’s primary body of work can be found at Studio 8, with earlier archives located at ArcanumCafe. He writes under the handle \"sasha\"—the Russian diminutive of his middle name, Alexander. His ongoing \"chapbook\" at Studio 8 features a collection of spontaneous prose, much of it in the zuihitsu style, alongside his photography. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-classic-ghost-stories-podcast--7002956/support . *To buy my paperback books:* https://books.by/tony-walker-books The Classic Ghost Stories Newsletter — short essays on the genre, odd discoveries, and recommendations. Free, fortnightly. Subscribe: https://www.classicghost.com/#/portal To buy my ebooks and audiobooks: payhip.com/TheClassicGhostStoriesPodcast Or, if you'd just like to make a one-off gesture of thanks for my work https://buymeacoffee.com/10mn8sk *Intro and Outro Music by The Heartwood Institute* 🎼 https://bit.ly/somecomeback","meta_description":"Jean-Pierre Ducharme and Ms. Esmeralda Spinoza are experts in the delicate architecture of the séance. Inside the stillness of Julia Silverman’s game room…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3666,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-classic-ghost-stories-podcast-421206/episodes/a-message-for-julia-by-r-a-sunter/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-classic-ghost-stories-podcast-421206/a-message-for-julia-by-r-a-sunter.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}