The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The Yellow Wallpaper

Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Missing Scenes

Narrator: Linda Jones

Unabridged: 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Published: 04/29/2025

Synopsis

“There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.”Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s haunting chronicle of crippling depression, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” is a cornerstone of weird fiction. First published in 1892, it has now been given an unsettling yet empathetic treatment courtesy of Robert Hunter (original score) and Linda Jones (narration) who skillfully brings the listener into the tale’s interiority and demonstrates its timelessness.Weaving sound into patterns that gradually reveal themselves like those lurking in the titular wall covering, Hunter’s score pairs with Jones’s graceful delivery to masterfully guide the listener through the nameless narrator’s insular world. The listener is invited to examine the wallpaper, first with revulsion, then with inquisitiveness, and finally concern until the time arrives to find out what lurks within—or behind—the hideous wallpaper. The listener experiences the oppressive weight of an ever-shrinking world with its attendant lack of stimuli, and obsessiveness offering the only escape.

About Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) gained much of her fame with lectures on women’s issues, ethics, labor, human rights, and social reform. She often referred to these themes in her fiction. She is best remembered for her 1892 short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” based on her own bout with severe postpartum depression and misguided medical treatment.

About Missing Scenes

Robert Hunter has been creating music under a variety of monikers and in various projects, like Conversations About the Light, Occulted Sound, Self Spiller, and Snares of Sixes. His current project, missing scenes, has released five albums of lunar-infused dreamscapes. The Yellow Wallpaper opened his eyes to how deep the well of weird fiction runs, which combined with a childhood love of soundtracks, inspired him to create a score of creeping unease that by turns evokes the feelings of paranoia, curiosity, and fragility that live in the heart of the tale.

About Linda Jones

Linda Jones is an award-winning narrator and NYC actor with a penchant for dark edges and curious truths. Weaned on du Maurier and Hitchcock, Kafka and Poe-tales of mystery, adventure, and intrigue spawned a decades-long career with writers in new work, development, and narration. She has narrated for Penguin Random House, Recorded Books, Audible Studios, and Dreamscape, as well as a variety of independent authors and publishers. She has a BFA from Ithaca College. She lives in Brooklyn with writer John C. Foster and their dog, Coraline, in an apartment filled-to-bursting, floor-to-ceiling, corner-to-absolute-corner with books.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Federico on September 10, 2023

Well, looky here! Ailing woman narrator takes a break from the city and settles on a rental country house to rest and recover her health after childbirth. Her physician husband taking exhaustive vigilance on her well being. The new accommodations are wonderful, ample space, a beautiful garden, and......more

Goodreads review by emma on February 22, 2024

better late than never. and the extremely unnecessary, redundant, and untimely reviews are in: this one is a classic for a reason!!! this was creepy and well-written and compelling. crazy that i'm extolling the virtues of a short story everyone was required to read at the age of 14 and a half but i wa......more

Goodreads review by Federico on November 18, 2024

Delightful. A collection of short stories by renowned Charlotte Perkins Gilman. She’s good, she’s REALLY good. This may be one of the best collections I’ve ever read. Clearly an exception to the mixed bag rule, nearly all of the stories being good or better, noting “The Good” ones may even feel ex......more

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean on October 18, 2024

The Yellow Wallpaper is a short novella from 1892, which has become a classic of the genre. It is a claustrophobic depiction of what would then be described as a woman's descent into madness, but now sounds more like severe post-natal depression. The story consists of passages from a secret journal,......more

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