Category: Christmas Ghost Story Readings

We are wrapping up our festive ghost story reading of “The Great God Pan” by Arthur Machen.

This reading has been organised by good friend of the Good Friends, Mike Perceval-Maxwell (host of Mr Spike’s Bedtime Stories), taking place on our Discord server. Mike is joined by guest readers Anthony Lee-Dudley, Brian Murphy, Jen Fridy, Sarah Dovey, and Scott Dorward, and Sue Savage.

You can find the first three parts in your podcast feed, or right here on this very server.

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

So invoke the name of Nodens, practice your knots, and dive into Queer Street with us.

“Veni, Veni Emmanuel”, arranged by Jon Fylling, is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence.

If you would like to read along at home, you can find Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan” on Project Gutenberg.

And if all this has put you in the mood for Christmas ghost stories, please check out our previous readings:

• “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens
• “The Canterville Ghost” by Oscar Wilde
• “The Viy” by Nikolai Gogol
• “Told After Supper” by Jerome K Jerome
• “The Searcher of the End House” by William Hope Hodgson
• “The Horse of the Invisible” by William Hope Hodgson

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We are continuing our festive ghost story reading of “The Great God Pan” by Arthur Machen.

This reading has been organised by good friend of the Good Friends, Mike Perceval-Maxwell (host of Mr Spike’s Bedtime Stories), taking place on our Discord server. Mike is joined by guest readers Anthony Lee-Dudley, Brian Murphy, Sarah Dovey, and Scott Dorward, and Sue Savage.

If you’re reading this shortly after release, you have time to join us for the conclusion at 22:30 GMT on Thursday the 18th of December.

So take a bracing night-time walk, brush up on your Latin, and try not to dwell on those unsettling illustrations.

“Veni, Veni Emmanuel”, arranged by Jon Fylling, is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence.

If you would like to read along at home, you can find Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan” on Project Gutenberg.

And if all this has put you in the mood for Christmas ghost stories, please check out our previous readings:

• “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens
• “The Canterville Ghost” by Oscar Wilde
• “The Viy” by Nikolai Gogol
• “Told After Supper” by Jerome K Jerome
• “The Searcher of the End House” by William Hope Hodgson
• “The Horse of the Invisible” by William Hope Hodgson

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We are continuing our festive ghost story reading of “The Great God Pan” by Arthur Machen.

This reading has been organised by good friend of the Good Friends, Mike Perceval-Maxwell (host of Mr Spike’s Bedtime Stories), taking place on our Discord server. Mike is joined by guest readers Andy Goodman, Brian Murphy, Graham Walmsley, Jen Fridy, Sarah Dovey, and Scott Dorward.

If you’re reading this shortly after release, you have time to join us for part 3 at 22:30 GMT on Wednesday the 17th of December. We shall be continuing at the same time on Thursday the 18th.

So put down those Chinese boxes, open up a bottle of good chianti, and listen to this tale of the City of Resurrections.

“Veni, Veni Emmanuel”, arranged by Jon Fylling, is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence.

If you would like to read along at home, you can find Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan” on Project Gutenberg.

And if all this has put you in the mood for Christmas ghost stories, please check out our previous readings:

• “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens
• “The Canterville Ghost” by Oscar Wilde
• “The Viy” by Nikolai Gogol
• “Told After Supper” by Jerome K Jerome
• “The Searcher of the End House” by William Hope Hodgson
• “The Horse of the Invisible” by William Hope Hodgson

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It is time once again for us to all gather around the virtual hearth for another festive ghost story reading. This year, we present “The Great God Pan” by Arthur Machen, a weird tale of mad science, supernatural horror, and very human revenge.

This reading has been organised by good friend of the Good Friends, Mike Perceval-Maxwell (host of Mr Spike’s Bedtime Stories), taking place on our Discord server. Mike is joined by guest readers Andy Goodman, Graham Walmsley, Jen Fridy, Sarah Dovey, Scott Dorward, and Sue Savage.

If you’re reading this shortly after release, you have time to join us for part 2 at 22:30 GMT on Tuesday the 16th of December. We shall be continuing after that at the same time on Wednesday the 17th and Thursday the 18th.

So settle back in a comfortable chair, open your mind, and prepare to experience the Great God Pan.

“Veni, Veni Emmanuel”, arranged by Jon Fylling, is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence.

If you would like to read along at home, you can find Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan” on Project Gutenberg.

And if all this has put you in the mood for Christmas ghost stories, please check out our previous readings:

• “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens
• “The Canterville Ghost” by Oscar Wilde
• “The Viy” by Nikolai Gogol
• “Told After Supper” by Jerome K Jerome
• “The Searcher of the End House” by William Hope Hodgson
• “The Horse of the Invisible” by William Hope Hodgson

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Our 2024 Christmas ghost story double-bill concludes with the second part of William Hope Hodgson’s “The Horse of the Invisible”, from the casebooks of Carnacki, the Ghost Finder. This is our second Carnacki tale this year, and you can find “The Searcher of the End House” on your podcast feed of choice or on this very server.

This reading has been organised by good friend of the Good Friends, Mike Perceval-Maxwell (host of Mr Spike’s Bedtime Stories), taking place on our Discord server. Mike is joined by guest readers John Casey, Scott Dorward, Sarah Dovey, Anthony Lee-Dudley, Brian Murphy, Nic Rosenberg, and Sue Savage.

So load your shotguns, fire up the electric pentacle, and prepare to make the First and Last signs of the Saaamaaa Ritual.

“Silent Night”, performed by The St. Joseph’s Convent Choir, is in the public domain.

If you would like to read along at home, you can find “The Searcher of the End House” in William Hope Hodgson’s collection Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder, available on Project Gutenberg.

And if all this has put you in the mood for Christmas ghost stories, please check out our previous readings:

• “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens
• “The Canterville Ghost” by Oscar Wilde
• “The Viy” by Nikolai Gogol
• “Told After Supper” by Jerome K Jerome

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