The Whateleys are now all gone ... or are they? Something has been left inside the abandoned Whateley farmhouse, and it's going to get hungry ... 

Content warning: this story does include elements of racism and classism.

Apologies for the intermittent background hissing in the intro this week! Don't know what that was, will investigate.

I'm not brave enough to attempt an American accent, but I did try to read the accents as Lovecraft wrote them (phonetically) - please don't judge me too harshly!!!!

Read and edited by Tracey Carvill

Music by https://www.purple-planet.com/

Classical music from https://musopen.org/music/?instrument=piano&period=classical . We used:

Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 2, No. 3 - 2nd Movement - Adagio by Beethoven

Preludes, Op. 28 - No. 4 'Suffocation'

Preludes, Op. 28 - No. 2 'Presentiment of Death'

Backgrounds and sounds from https://freesound.org/ :

Audio-dread: very-creepy-horror-music-2

Cmdrobot: angry-dog

Cognito-perceptu: thunder-sharp-crack-approaching

Craigsmith: g18-10-1920s-1940s-traffic-in-tunnel

Craigsmith: r29-04-crashing-collapse-of-wood-building

Cyoung510: waves-lapping

Elfman-rox: bird-flapping-wings

Gibarroule: cow-scream

Hdfreema: night-crickets-back-porch

Imonacan: whippoorwill3

Inspectorj: snapping-wooden-fence-g

Klankbeeld: dutch-farmland-october-calm-141025-0450

Mrfossy: outdoors-day-lightrain-01

Mrthenoronha: dogs-barking

Paresh: wolves

Rambler52: rain-storm

Smidoid: quake

Szegvari: big-temlpe-cave-soundscape-fantasy-201117-0067

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A small town in rural Massachussets of the early 1900s is experiencing something inexplicable ... something that seems to be centred around the Whateley family and the old standing stones on the hills above their farmhouse ...

Content warning: this story does include elements of racism and classism.

I'm not brave enough to attempt an American accent, but I did try to read the accents as Lovecraft wrote them (phonetically) - please don't judge me too harshly!!!!

Read and edited by Tracey Carvill

Music by https://www.purple-planet.com/

Classical music from https://musopen.org/music/?instrument=piano&period=classical . We used:

Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 2, No. 3 - 2nd Movement - Adagio by Beethoven

Preludes, Op. 28 - No. 4 'Suffocation'

Preludes, Op. 28 - No. 2 'Presentiment of Death'

Backgrounds and sounds from https://freesound.org/ :

Audio-dread: very-creepy-horror-music-2

Cmdrobot: angry-dog

Craigsmith: g18-10-1920s-1940s-traffic-in-tunnel

Cyoung510: waves-lapping

Hdfreema: night-crickets-back-porch

Imonacan: whippoorwill3

Mzui: bookshop-shop-quiet-atnosphere-some-voices

Smidoid: quake

Comments? Suggestions? Requests? Get in touch on my Wattpad page: https://www.wattpad.com/user/TraceyMary7

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The General's tale comes to a sad conclusion, and so too does Carmilla's, as the secrets of the old abandoned churchyard by the ruins of the Karnstein mansion are at last revealed.

Read and edited by Tracey Carvill

Music by https://www.purple-planet.com/

Classical music from https://musopen.org/music/?instrument=piano&period=classical . We used:

Piano Sonata no. 14 in C#m 'Moonlight', Op. 27 no. 2 - I. Adagio sostenuto by Beethoven

Backgrounds and sounds from https://freesound.org/ :

Lefthandwinnie: horsewagon-horse-walking-slowly-ext

Gowlermusic: summer-outside-ambience

Kyles: wind-light-calm-soft-breeze-deep-big-gusty

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The search is on after Carmilla goes missing - but where exactly did she go? Our heroine is soon to find out when an old friend comes calling with an extraordinary story ...

Read and edited by Tracey Carvill

Music by https://www.purple-planet.com/

Classical music from https://musopen.org/music/?instrument=piano&period=classical . We used:

Sonata No. 21, Op. 53 in C Major Waldstein - II. Introduzione - Adagio Molto by Beethoven

Backgrounds and sounds from https://freesound.org/ :

Giddster: fireplace-burning

Tetrisrocker: clock

Gowlermusic: summer-outside-ambience

Kyles: wind-light-calm-soft-breeze-deep-big-gusty

Lefthandwinnie: horsewagon-horse-walking-slowly-ext

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A charming new visitor has been received into the castle; but who is she, and why is she so shrouded in mystery? And what strange sickness is causing the nearby villagers to grow weak and die?

Read and edited by Tracey Carvill

Music by https://www.purple-planet.com/

Classical music from https://musopen.org/music/?instrument=piano&period=classical . We used:

 Sonata in C major, Hob. XVI50 - II. Adagio by Haydn

 Sonata No. 21, Op. 53 in C Major Waldstein - II. Introduzione - Adagio Molto by Beethoven

Piano Sonata no. 14 in C#m 'Moonlight', Op. 27 no. 2 - I. Adagio sostenuto by Beethoven

Backgrounds and sounds from https://freesound.org/ :

Giddster: fireplace-burning

Gowlermusic: summer-outside-ambience

Kyles: wind-light-calm-soft-breeze-deep-big-gusty

Sagetyrtle: 1103octobernight

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A young girl living in an isolated location with only her father and governesses for company leaps at the chance to receive a visitor - a girl of her own age - in their country home. However, the circumstances of the girl's arrival - and the girl's behaviour - are shrouded in mystery ...

We had some issues with the recording this time, but we've powered through as best we can. Hopefully we'll have it cleared up for part 2!

Read by Tracey Carvill

Edited by Kris Brown and Tracey Carvill

Music by https://www.purple-planet.com/

Background classical music found on https://musopen.org/music/?instrument=piano&period=classical . We used  Mozart's Piano Sonata no.16 'Facile' K.545 - II Andante.

Other sounds and backgrounds from https://freesound.org/ :

Gowlermusic: summer-outside-ambience

Kyles: light-wind-calm-soft-breeze-deep-big-gusty

Giovannitp: horse-and-chariot-30-sec

Arnaud-coutancier: nervous-horses

Goodsjemes: female-wilhelm-scream

Kodack: wooden-ship-break

Giddster: fireplace-burning

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When our narrator is invited to stay with an old childhood friend, he is shocked to discover how much his old friend Roderick Usher has changed over the years. Little does he realise just how much ... 

Written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1839.

Read by Tracey Carvill

Edited by Kris Brown and Tracey Carvill

Music by https://www.purple-planet.com/

Backgrounds and sound effects all from the excellent https://freesound.org/ :

Ambientsound: wind-morning

Davincamas: onechime2

Svegvari: big-temple-cave-soundscape-fantasy

Dblover: howling-wind-ambience

Inspectorj: snapping-wooden-fence

Cognito-Perceptu: creaky-metal-swing

Tembre: cartoony-clangs-hit-with-spade-2

Onteca: building-collapse02

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Hello, my name is Tracey and this is Reading Gothic, a little podcast where I read some of my favourite gothic and spooky stories for you to enjoy, and then geek out about them afterwards!

I’m an aspiring writer, so from time to time I’ll add my own work in here for you to listen to. Everything else I read will be public domain work, so if you like it and want to read it yourself, you should be able to find it for free out there on the internet!

Feedback and suggestions will always be welcome, so if you want to let me know what you think, or if you have a favourite story of your own you want to suggest I read on the show, you can get in touch via my Ko-Fi page at www.ko-fi.com/traceymary7 

That about covers everything, so sit back and enjoy the stories!

PS: Big thanks to Anchor.fm for their great site which makes podcasting easy! 

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com