31Ghosts

Our heroine meets the last of the Brankovans and explore their castle in the Carpathians a bit in this week's episode. Alexandre Dumas' "The Pale Lady" continues with the most Gothic chapter, yet.

The new season of 31Ghosts launches, now! Dive head first on horseback into Alexandre Dumas' 1849 Vampire story "The Pale Lady." This is the first of 4 installments from the novella, which is set against the scenic Carpathian mountains. Meet the brave maid, dangerous brigands, and brothers at odds who will define this unexpectedly Gothic tale from the write of "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo".

Murder by millstone and a would-be-bride taking matters into her own hands features heavily in "Bopolûchî", a story from Punjab, told to Flora Annie Steel in 1894.

The son of seven abandoned queens goes on a quest to retrieve their eyes from a witch whose made of them a necklace. This version of the story from Uttar Pradesh was translated by folklorist Joseph Jacobs in the late 1800s.

Karen gets carried away with a pair of enviable red dancing shoes in Hans Christian Andersen's version of "The Red Shoes".

A young acolyte fond of drawing cats spends the night in an abandoned temple. "The Boy Who Drew Cats" is a classically spooky tale from Japan. This version was translated by Lafcadio Hearn, who is identified most often as a "Japanese Writer" despite his European origin.

Prince Prospero's party sequesters itself beyond an epidemic- or so they believe- in "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe.

"The Story of Bluebeard" has inspired countless retellings and conversations on marriage and gender. This version was written by fairy tale author Charles Perault.

Today we read the gendered horror story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

31 Ghosts starts off with the Victorian ghost story The Cold Embrace, written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon.