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Once in a Haunted House — The Complete Collection So Far: Volumes 1 & 2

Both issues of the Classic Ghost Stories folk horror zine, at a saving

Two issues. Two obsessions. One house.

Volume 1 (Winter 2025–26) begins with place as the source of all unease — haunted London, the geometry of old churches, the way certain buildings carry their histories in their bones.

With contributions from Annie Smith, David Ashley Kilvington, Owain Draig, Jo Hinckley, Jasper LeStrange, and others, it established Once in a Haunted House as a zine that takes the supernatural seriously — not as escapism, but as a way of paying attention.

Volume 2 (Summer 2026) deepens the theme into full folk horror territory. Here the land itself becomes the protagonist. A hill, a shoreline, a particular bend in a lane — each carrying memories older than the people moving through them.

With new fiction and essays from Monica McGuinness, Josh Maybrook, J. L. Worrad, Annie Smith, R. A. Sunter, David Ashley Kilvington, Amelia M. Smith, and more, this issue asks the question folk horror always asks: what happens when the place stops pretending it doesn't remember you?

Both volumes are published by Classic Ghost Stories and edited by Tony Walker.

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Volume 1

Once in a Haunted House is a new independent magazine devoted to ghosts, hauntings, and the uncanny life of places.

This first issue brings together original fiction, essays, reviews, and artwork that take seriously the idea that landscapes remember and that buildings, streets, and rooms can exert a presence of their own.

Inside you will find literary ghost stories, hauntological essays, psychogeographic wanderings, reflections on haunted bookshops and churches, and reviews that favour atmosphere over spectacle.

Every piece is rooted in place, whether Suffolk lanes, Yorkshire moorland, Bloomsbury stone, New York streets, or imagined towns weighted with history.

Produced to support writers and artists while offering readers something thoughtful, unsettling, and quietly absorbing, Once in a Haunted House is for those who prefer their supernatural grounded, intelligent, and lingering long after the page is turned.

Volume 1

Once in a Haunted House is a new independent magazine devoted to ghosts, hauntings, and the uncanny life of places.

Inside you will find literary ghost stories, hauntological essays, psychogeographic wanderings, reflections on haunted bookshops and churches, and reviews that favour atmosphere over spectacle.

Every piece is rooted in place, whether Suffolk lanes, Yorkshire moorland, Bloomsbury stone, New York streets, or imagined towns weighted with history.

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Volume 2

Once in a Haunted House — Volume 2: Folk Horror

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast Zine — Summer 2026

The second issue of Once in a Haunted House takes its theme from the tradition that understands landscape not as backdrop but as protagonist. Folk horror at its best is not about monsters or the supernatural as a violation of natural law. It is about the thinning of the membrane between people and the land — the moment a place stops being scenery and reasserts itself as something older, and less indifferent, than we had assumed.

The ten stories and essays in this issue take that idea seriously.

A woman alone in a house makes a quiet pact with a mouse, and something shifts in the arrangement.

A walker on an ancient chalk barrow finds the map no longer quite describes where he is.

A fossil collector on a remote shoreline brings something home that shouldn’t have come.
An apartment building holds its tenants closer than they know.
A villa in an English village carries the weight of what happened there.
A European street at night is subtly, persistently wrong.

The dead take many forms; some of them help.

Alongside the fiction, the zine’s film critic, Jasper Le Strange, reviews folk horror on screen, and the editor reflects on why the genre keeps returning to the same question: what does it mean to be a self, sealed inside your own skin, walking through a world that remembers everything?

Contents:

• The Mouse — Monica McGuinness

• Blackthorn Barrow — Josh Maybrook

• Ghost of a Fossil — C. P. Webster

• Apartment 31 — S. Reddy

• The Wood on the Eston Hills - A True Account — Marc Curry

• At Hobchalk Villa — J. L. Worrad

• In Salesianergasse — David Ashley Kilvington

• Psychopomps — Amelia M. Smith

• The Peace of the Pink Rose — Annie Smith

• Upper and Lower Crust in the Middle World by Owain Ddraig

• The Lady of Russell Farm — R. A. Sunter