Welcome to Gates of Imagination - where classic tales get a second life through your headphones! 🎧
Ever wanted to experience Lovecraft's cosmic horrors while doing the dishes? Or maybe dive into Wells' time-traveling adventures during your morning commute? Well, you're in the right place! We're bringing public domain masterpieces straight to your ears, focusing on the weird, the wonderful, and everything in between.
Here's the best part: all our audiobooks are completely FREE and unabridged - because who likes paying for stories that are already in the public domain? Plus, you get the full experience, exactly as the author intended!
New stories materialize every weekday, bringing you fresh doses of literary greatness to fuel your imagination.
So plug in those earbuds and join our growing community of audiobook enthusiasts. After all, these stories weren't meant to gather dust on library shelves - they were meant to be experienced!
Gates of Imagination
Hey everyone! 👋
1️⃣ New on Patreon and Spotify
We’ve just released “The Crystal Egg” by H.G. Wells on Patreon and Spotify. It’s a short but highly evocative story about a mystery hidden in an entirely ordinary place. Perfect for fans of subtle, unsettling speculative fiction. If you enjoy Wells at his most intriguing, be sure to check it out.
👉 Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/151816279
👉 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2LqPHQyECNb5SnIp54qXLU
2️⃣ March plans - we’re coming back to YouTube
In March, we’re planning to return to regular uploads on YouTube. We want to work toward regaining monetization, so we’ll be putting more effort into developing the audiovisual side of our new recordings. This is fairly new territory for us. There will be more atmosphere, visuals, and some experimentation along the way, with plenty of learning as we go. If you’re curious how an audiobook might work in a more cinematic form… stay with us 👀
3️⃣ Thank you ❤️
And as always: thank you so much for all the support we’ve been getting lately. Your comments, messages, and encouragement mean a lot to us and keep us going. We genuinely appreciate every bit of it.
See you soon, and thanks for listening 🎧✨
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📣 Channel Update - This Week’s News
Dear listeners,
Following your suggestions, we made another attempt to reach YouTube support on X. After many tries, we finally received a response, unfortunately, we were told that all decisions are made by an internal team and are not reversible.
This means that our YouTube channel, which for years was our main platform no longer generates any income at all. Because of this, we are gradually shifting our focus to other platforms, where audiobooks are more welcome and better supported.
📕 Updates & important links:
- “The Chessmen of Mars”, the next volume in the Barsoom series, is now available for our supporters on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/151309464
- Dozens of audiobooks are now available for free to everyone:
👉 on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/gates_of_imagination
👉 and on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/1vEDmCOuMqbGJyg1oraGhX
-We’ve also introduced new support tiers on Patreon, allowing you to commission short stories and audiobooks, if there’s a specific work or author you’d love to hear, this is now possible ✨
🔔 Reminder: YouTube subscriptions were automatically disabled when the channel was demonetized, this was not our decision.
Finally, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all your support, messages, shares, and continued presence. Your encouragement is what keeps this project alive and moving forward. 🖤
We’re still here and we’re not stopping.
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Quick update for everyone following the channel 👋
Because of the recent demonetization, we’ve decided to make the audiobook Mrs. Amworth available completely free outside YouTube. You can now listen to it on our Patreon and on Spotify. No paywalls, no strings attached.
👉 Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/150666887
👉 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5ycWIsmJdtLqGUqwH6lyFb
It’s a classic, slow-burning ghost story: quiet countryside, polite society, and something deeply wrong lurking just beneath the surface.
Thank you, as always, for sticking with us and supporting the channel ❤️
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It’s been a while since our last upload - and unfortunately, there’s a reason for that.
At the end of January, our channel was demonetized. For the past three years, we’ve been creating and sharing free audiobooks - bringing classic literature, fantasy, horror, and adventure to everyone who loves stories. We kept the channel running thanks to ad revenue through the YouTube Partner Program.
Now, overnight, we’ve not only lost our main source of income, but YouTube also withheld our January payment, which completely breaks our business model and financial stability. We tried to appeal the decision, but our efforts were rejected.
According to YouTube, audiobooks fall under “content that exclusively features readings of other materials”, which under the new guidelines makes us ineligible for monetization.
But this is not the end of Gates of Imagination.
We still have few audiobooks already recorded - including the next book in the Barsoom series: The Chessmen of Mars and the gothic short story “Mrs Amworth” by E. F. Benson. These and more will be released exclusively on our Patreon in the near future.
If you’d like to help us keep the channel alive and continue producing audiobooks for everyone, you can support us by:
☕ buying us a virtual coffee: buymeacoffee.com/goi.audiobooks
💫 joining our Patreon: www.patreon.com/gates_of_imagination
Every bit of support means the world to us - thank you for being part of this journey. 💛
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