The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Classic Horror Story

Tonight, we read The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, one of the most disturbing stories ever written about the human mind.A woman is taken to a colonial mansion for the summer to rest and recover. Her husband, a physician, confines her to a room. And on the walls of that room is a wallpaper; ugly, creeping, alive. What begins as an irritation becomes an obsession, and then becomes something else entirely.Written in 1892, this story was drawn from Gilman's own experience. It is something far more unsettling than a ghost story. Subscribe for weekly readings from the darkest corners of classic literature.Turn off the lights. Put on headphones. Listen closely.