Echoes in the Dark with Rae Wilson
In the oral tradition of storytelling, Echoes in the Dark, delivers classic works of gothic fiction weekly. Hosted and curated by Ms. Rae (an award-winning educator, actor, and literary analyst) the collection of stories spans popular works by authors like Edgar Allan Poe as well as lesser known works by authors such as Guy de Maupassant. Each story is followed by a literary analysis.
If you’re looking to enjoy more classic literature, struggle to find the time to read, hate reading, or just love listening to stories, then this podcast is for you.
A Note on Content: While these stories are generally appropriate for listeners aged 12 and up, classic Gothic literature frequently explores themes of murder, romantic affairs, and "tortured souls." Stories are performed exactly as written in their original historical context.
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Episodes
18 episodes
The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce
"Fear has no brains; it is an idiot."Ambrose Bierce, a rather prolific short story writer, is known for his whit, but scholars have often noted that The Moonlit Road is a piece that is not talked about enough. This traditional g...
The Lady's Maid's Bell by Edith Wharton
"I could have shaken the man for his stupidity."Edith Wharton may be known world wide as the scribe behind Age of Innocence, but she equally adapt at making her star-crossed lovers, pine away in much darker circumstances. Her go...
The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
" I should like to know how any one of us would look, or what the devil we should have to say for ourselves, in any Christian witness-box. "Robert Louis Stevens may be known world wide for Treasure Island and Strang...
The Trial for Murder by Charles Dickens
" A truthful traveller, who should have seen some extraordinarycreature in the likeness of a sea-serpent, would have no fear of mentioningit; but the same traveller, having had some singular presentiment, impulse,vagary of thoug...
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The Fall of The House of Usher
" I looked at him with a feeling of sad surprise. Surely, no man had everbefore changed as Roderick Usher had! Could this be the friend of myearly years?"True friends are there for you through thick and thin, and in chil...
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The Hall Bedroom by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
" I have experienced the revulsion which comes sooner or later to the adventurous soul who experiences nothing but defeat and so-called ill luck. I have swung to the opposite extreme. I have lost in everything — I have lost in love, I have ...
The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce
"...people of the frontier—restless souls who no sooner had hewn fairly habitable homes out of the wilderness and attained to that degree of prosperity which to-day we should call indigence than impelled by some mysterious impulse of their natu...
The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft
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The Grey Woman by Mrs. Gaskell (Part 3)
"indeed, I have sometimes fancied since that the flower-garden, to which the only access from the castle was through his rooms, was designed in order to give me exercise and employment under his own eye."What is it that makes his fall in...
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The Grey Woman by Mrs. Gaskell (Part 2)
"indeed, I have sometimes fancied since that the flower-garden, to which the only access from the castle was through his rooms, was designed in order to give me exercise and employment under his own eye."In part 2 of our story, we find A...
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The Grey Woman by Mrs. Gaskell (Part 1) updated
"indeed, I have sometimes fancied since that the flower-garden, to which the only access from the castle was through his rooms, was designed in order to give me exercise and employment under his own eye."What is it that makes his fall in...
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The Music of Erich Zann by H.P. Lovecraft
"I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty; but ... the soul remained untouched."Who among us hasn't had a moment where we act before we think? Whether it's an impulse to hug or a...
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The Apparition by Guy de Maupassant
""I was wounded at that remark and told him so somewhat sharply."What do we owe others, especially our friends from long ago? Whether the willingness to help comes from kindness, sympathy, or obligation, the impact of the decision to ass...
The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
"I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty; but ... the soul remained untouched."Who among us hasn't had a moment where we act before we think? Whether it's an impulse to hug or a...
A Vine on a House by Ambrose Bierce
"The next evening, at about the same hour... and again the mysterious phenomenon occurred..."Society has so many unspoken rules, but should all the rules be followed? And if so, then at what cost? In this short story by Ambrose Bierce, r...
The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
"Will you say that I am mad?"What is madness? In this beloved story, Poe invites readers to question their own ideas of when exactly we cross the line. Rae Wilson shares her observations on Poe's words and invites you to question the uni...
Luella Miller by Mary Wilkins Freeman
" You kill everybody that is fool enough to care anythin’ about you... "What is our obligation to love they neighbor? In this short story by Mary Wilkins Freeman (best known for Pembroke), readers are invited to question their own ideas ...
