GHOST STORIES FROM THE GILDED AGE

Ten narrators lend a contemporary feel, intimate tones, and a nice sense of reverence to 15 well-crafted stories of gothic hauntings and insistent apparitions by twelve of the 19th century's most accomplished women authors. These are stories of longing and loss. In Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," Amanda Stribling builds a strident sound of obsession when a woman's husband prescribes a postpartum rest cure. In Wharton's "The Lady's Maid's Bell," Aven Shore captures a servant hanging onto her sanity in a country home full of secrets and abuses. In Woolf's gentle "A Haunted House," Nikki Zakocs' narration reflects the lightness of finally discovering a treasure. These authors were close to their ghosts. [Published: JANUARY 2026]