A dark and stormy night. Wind howling in the trees. The creaky door of an old house…The tropes of the classic ghost tale did not spring up overnight, fully formed; they grew over time, from the Romantic literature of the 18th century to the early 20th century, the ‘hey day’ of horror fiction. The Tales from the Penny Bloods Podcast began as a series of audio dramas inspired by stories from Victorian Penny Fiction (think Penny Dreadfuls), keepsake volumes, and journals like Household Words. This collection brings together the ghostlier of such stories: loves lost and crimes unpunished, haunted carriages, and of course, haunted houses. From Gothic Romanticism to Edwardian horror, these tales illustrate the evolution of the modern ghost story over the ‘long century’. The companion volume to this story anthology includes the original scripts for these audio plays.   [The Tales from the Penny Bloods Podcast can be heard, performed by a talented group of actors and brought to life with music and special effects, on Spotify, Apple Music, and other platforms. Non-profit theatres can request the rights to perform the scripts at no cost, and for-profit theatres can present them for a nominal fee.]