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Tonight at The Hollow Library, we read The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs; one of the most perfectly constructed horror stories ever written.A sergeant-major returns from India with a curious relic, a dried monkey's paw with the power to grant three wishes. The White family laughs it off. They make their wish. And then the consequences come knocking.Published in 1902, this story has terrified readers for over a century. The horror here is not in what you see. It is in what you hear at the door.

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.

Tonight at The Hollow Library, we read The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, one of the greatest gothic horror stories ever written.A man receives a desperate letter from his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, and travels to the crumbling family mansion to offer comfort. What he finds there is a deteriorating man, a dying sister, and a house that seems to breathe with a life of its own. It will push him, and you, to the edge of sanity.Written in 1839, this story defined what gothic horror could be. Poe at his absolute darkest.Subscribe for weekly readings from the darkest corners of classic literature.Turn off the lights. Put on headphones. Listen closely.

Tonight we read The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, one of the most chilling psychological horror stories ever written. A murderer, convinced of his own sanity, cannot escape the sound that haunts him from beneath the floorboards.Story: The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)Author: Edgar Allan PoeChannel: The Hollow Library