EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast

  First, an apology.  I had promised to record The Yellow Wallpaper episodes ago, but I've been sidetracked for a couple of reasons.  One is purely commercial.  I have learned that the YouTube audience for audio horror crave novelty and that stories that haven't been readily available online draw higher views.  As such, I've been reading widely and finding obscurities and curios - and these have jumped the queue while I try and grow the channel, diverting my attention from better-known stories.  But since the podcast is the "Classic Horror Podcast" I ought to narrate some bona fide classics every so often - and The Yellow Wallpaper is in this category. There is another reason, however, and that is that, maybe more than any other story I've so far covered, The Yellow Wallpaper is an important story, and a woman's story - and I confess to some hesitancy about whether I ought to tell it.  In the end, I felt that were I to record it I should take partic...

Not for the first time on EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast we find an author primarily known for one thing moonlighting in the realm of horror.  E. Nesbit is, of course, most remembered for her enduring, and hugely influential, writing for children; The Five Children and It , The Phoenix and the Carpet , The Treasure Seekers , and The Railway Children being among her best-loved works. She wrote for adults too and, in her short fiction particularly, indulged a predilection for the supernatural. Man Size in Marble was compiled in her first collection of such (1893's Grim Tales ) although she wrote many more*. As our series of podcasts continues we begin to identify recurring themes, and it is possible to speculate on what they reveal about the (very different, but in some ways the same) times in which they were written. In the next episode, for example, we return to the subgenre I would like to call "The Terrible Aunt" (part of a broader category of vintage horror fi...