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🎃 Spooktober Pick · Gothic Week #6

Stoker's Dracula didn't invent the vampire, but it defined it for good, and every Count, cape and castle since owes it a debt. It's the perfect weekend listen, told through letters, diaries and growing dread.

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🎃 Spooktober Pick · Gothic Week #5

The Turn of the Screw is the ghost story that critics have argued about for over a century: are the apparitions real, or is the governess losing her mind? Henry James turned ambiguity into an art form, and horror has been borrowing the trick ever since.

1 day ago | [YT] | 8

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🎃 Spooktober Pick · Gothic Week #4

A wounded soldier, a crumbling Spanish manor, and a family that hides something in its blood. Olalla is Stevenson's forgotten gothic gem, a vampire story that never says the word.

2 days ago | [YT] | 10

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🎃 Spooktober Pick · Gothic Week #3

Long before psychological horror had a name, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote The Yellow Wallpaper. It's a landmark of both the genre and feminist literature, and it still gets under the skin over a century later.

3 days ago | [YT] | 8

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🎃 Spooktober Pick · Gothic Week #2

A grieving man, a midnight knock, and a black bird with only one word to say. The Raven is Poe's most famous poem, and it's best heard in the dark

4 days ago | [YT] | 14

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🎃 Spooktober Pick · Gothic Week #1

Every day until Halloween, we're recommending one dark classic from our library, and on October 31st a brand-new audiobook premieres to close the season. We open with The Tell-Tale Heart, Poe's masterpiece and the blueprint for every unreliable, guilt-ridden narrator in horror fiction since.

5 days ago | [YT] | 14

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⚔️ Homer vs. Nolan — where do you stand?

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has just hit theaters. A 3,000-year-old epic on the biggest screen possible. But how does it compare to the original?

If you've seen the film (or plan to), here's the question:

Which do you prefer?

2 months ago | [YT] | 98

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 ⚔️

We've finished recording our full audiobook of Homer's Iliad, in Samuel Butler's classic translation. We're now putting the YouTube video together — the premiere is coming next week.

Don't want to wait? The complete audiobook is already available on Patreon:
👉 www.patreon.com/gates_of_imagination/posts/iliad-b…

See you at the gates of Troy.

2 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 291

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Some of you may have already noticed – and yes, it's true: the channel is monetized again.

From here we'll be rebuilding, and we won't pretend it'll happen overnight. We're stepping away from audio-only uploads (we'd rather not hand the algorithm another excuse to bury us), so the catalogue will come back gradually – in a new and, we hope, better shape.


To kick things off, we've brought back an old friend: Algernon Blackwood's The Willows, one of the most terrifying tales weird fiction has ever produced. This time it's paired with footage from our own wanderings through the forest – so you can lose yourself among the trees while the dread quietly closes in.


Come take a walk with us. There's much more to come.

3 months ago | [YT] | 16

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𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 🔍

Hello again, everyone – it's been a while, and we've missed this.

We're back with something we're genuinely excited about: a full audiobook recording of Agatha Christie's 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞, the very first Miss Marple novel. A tyrannical colonel turns up dead in the vicar's own study, the village is overflowing with suspects, and the only person quietly putting it all together is an elderly lady with a ball of knitting and a very sharp eye. Cozy on the surface, wickedly twisty underneath – perfect listening for a long evening.

A quick reminder while we're here: every audiobook that disappeared from our YouTube channel still has a home right here on Patreon. If you've been missing any of them, they're all waiting for you in our catalogue – nothing is lost.

Thank you to everyone who stuck around through the quiet stretch. This is the first of more to come. Press play, put the kettle on, and enjoy. ☕

👉 www.patreon.com/posts/murder-at-by-158683279

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