Fireside Ghost Stories
Fireside Ghost Stories originated from my annual Christmas Ghost Stories, when listeners told me they would prefer not to wait a whole 12 months until the next scary story.
I’m Jon Briggs, and once a month I now gather those listeners back to the fire for a monthly ghost story, written and read as these tales once were: slowly, intimately, and with room for unease to settle. These are stories of voices that return, places that remember, and moments where something is almost explained but never fully resolved.
If you first found these stories at Christmas and felt they lingered with you enough to want more, Fireside Ghost Stories is where that tradition continues.
Fireside Ghost Stories
Latest Episodes
A Michaelmas Hiring
Michaelmas. The old quarter day when accounts were settled, contracts ended and the country’s servants gathered at the mop fair hoping to be hired for another year. At Wychgate, the boys and girls stand waiting with the...
A sneak preview of what's in store in August...
Yes it's the Glorious 12th of August we are celebrating this month. Fireside Ghost Stories is growing - and all thanks to our subscribers. Here's the August story in a sneak preview so that you can sample this month's story before...
A Most Inglorious Twelfth
It is the Glorious Twelfth — the most celebrated date in the shooting calendar. On a great Edwardian moorland estate, the guns are assembled, the hides are manned, and everything is exactly as it should be.Except that it isn't.
The Debt Came Due
Hidden among the papers of a vanished nineteenth-century farmer lies a diary never meant to be read. It tells the story of one extraordinary harvest, an ancient stone at the edge of a lonely field, and a promise made in despair th...
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Loved the Michaelmas story! --Brenda from Somerville, Massachusetts (US)
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