The Yellow Wallpaper

From over here, Evie says:

I would like to recommend “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It has to be my favorite short story… no matter how many times I read it it still gives me the chills!

To which Miette replies: your wish, my command, and about those chills, have you ever tried to read it aloud? It’s utterly skin-crawling. Of course, I’ve already read the Virginia Woolf story with a similar (though not -quite- as resplendent with crawling-skin heebies) narrative structure.

I was just the other day staring at the ceiling in my own bedroom, and could’ve sworn it was comprised really of thousands of cats, trying to escape the two-dee flatlands of the ceiling. And while at the time I attributed that vision to… the detritus of some decisions of my youth … given the evidence put forth by Woolf and Gilman, I’m in pretty good company for textured wall hallucinations. Anyone else ever stare at their walls until they go stereoscopic?

6 thoughts on “The Yellow Wallpaper”

  1. Whoa! So creepy! I’ll listen for a third time now. Its a firsthand experience of madness.

  2. I’ve been a lurker for a while now, this is my first post.
    This one has to be my favourite podcast so far, its a great story. Thanks Miette :).

    Peter

  3. Dear sir
    I am a student of english at algier’s University ,i do thnk you for this veru valuable project of audio books

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