The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Finally! Here it is, at long last:  the fourth episode of my story podcast! I’m ashamed to say that it has been quite a few months since my last upload, and I beg you to forgive me. (Please, please forgive me). I promise that I will be more consistent from this moment forth. Cross my heart and hope to die.

Anyway, our story tonight is “The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as requested by my dear friend Ellen. This is a favorite of mine — very creepy. This is also the longest story I’ve read on the podcast (which is one of the reasons why it took me so long to post it). But I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and I hope you enjoy listening. 

As always, feel free to leave me requests.

The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

Tonight – a CREEPY story!

I’ve always loved this one by Edgar Allan Poe, classically scary. I remember reading it first back in junior high and watching a short film interpretation of it that really freaked me out.

I’ll admit that I had a few glasses of wine before recording and that, as a result, in trying to get sufficiently into character, I may have stepped into the realm of over-the-top and cheesy instead of staying in my intended place at a simple creepy. But you tell me.

For best results, listen to this story in a dark room, with a single candle flickering before you on whatever surface at hand, be it a table, counter-top, breakfast tray, or the floorboards under which you have deposited the remains of that neighbor who wouldn’t stop bothering you about mowing your lawn.

Enjoy and, as always, feel free to leave me requests of your own favorite stories.