{"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":"An Encounter in the Mist by A N L Munby","slug":"an-encounter-in-the-mist-by-a-n-l-munby","published_at":"2026-02-16T18:26:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-classic-ghost-stories-podcast-421206/an-encounter-in-the-mist-by-a-n-l-munby","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-classic-ghost-stories-podcast-421206","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/an-encounter-in-the-mist-by-a-n-l-munby--71815929","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71815929/cgs2101506398.mp3","summary":"A solitary man, lost in the Welsh hills, stumbles through thick mist—his only companion a mounting sense of unease. The landscape is indifferent; the path vanishes; every familiar landmark dissolves into obscurity. Rescue appears in the form of an enigmatic stranger, whose kindness feels both matter-of-fact and unsettling. A map changes hands, but the mist has a memory longer than any traveller’s, and the hills have their own way of keeping secrets. What follows is not a tale of terror, but a quiet reckoning with the uncanny—a story in which benevolence and danger are not so easily separated. “An Encounter in the Mist” by A. N. L. Munby, first published in The Alabaster Hand (1949). A. N. L. Munby (1913–1974) was a British librarian, bibliographer, and author, best known for his ghost stories and scholarly work on rare books. Join Our Podia Community for 100s of Ad Free Ghost Stories https://www.classicghost.com/ghost-stories-episodes/buy 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":"A solitary man, lost in the Welsh hills, stumbles through thick mist—his only companion a mounting sense of unease. The landscape is indifferent; the path…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2506,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-classic-ghost-stories-podcast-421206/episodes/an-encounter-in-the-mist-by-a-n-l-munby/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/an-encounter-in-the-mist-by-a-n-l-munby.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}