The Endless Library

"Black winter had descended in a single night." Watch the tides and slip out in the cover of night for Daphne Du Maurier's "The Birds" (1952). It's a chilling, suspenseful story that's not really li...

13 Sep 202025min

And now she sat so very quietly, so very still, like a living-dead doll staring out the window.   Buenas noches, spooky friends! This week, let Aurelien tell you all about how Georgina's perfectly pla...

6 Sep 202023min

"She is only a ghost, and nobody believes in ghosts any longer."   Let's go back in time for book club this week, with Ellen Glasgow's 1920 ghost story "The Past". If you like classic gothic stories a...

30 Aug 202030min

"The house was full of dead bodies, it seemed. It felt like a mechanical cemetery." Hey, spooky friends! It's a special, Bradbury birthday edition of book club. Aurelien discusses (and spoils!) her ...

22 Aug 202032min

"Darkness stood hushed and bulky beneath his kitchen window."   Bring a flashlight and stay out of the cellar! This week, Aurelien covers Ramsey Campbell's viscerally horrifying "The Brood" (1980). It...

16 Aug 202024min

"Even when you're dead, some things cut close to the bone." Let's go to the mall, everybody! But be careful - you don't want to get stuck here, like the ghosts in "Old Habits" (2011) by Nalo Hopkins...

9 Aug 202015min

"...and there were the trooping faeries that would steal them all away to their underground hills for a hundred years."   Meet by the edge of the wood and wear your best coat to book club for modern f...

2 Aug 202018min

"Not a spirit to be found, of course."   Meet in the hidden passage at midnight for book club to discuss modern gothic comic "Women Do Not Creep by Daylight" (2019), written by Vera Greentea and illus...

25 Jul 202014min