The Yellow Wallpaper
A Feminist Psychological HorrorBy Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Length52m
About this audiobook
This adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper enters the classic through feminist horror, psychological horror, and feminist gothic fiction, preserving its intimacy while drawing the reader deeper into the pressure of being watched, diagnosed, dismissed, and denied control over her own mind.
Her husband John is both physician and authority. He decides when she rests, when she works, what she may believe about her illness, and which fears count as real. Her writing becomes secret. Her voice retreats inward. In the upstairs nursery—with barred windows, a bolted bed, torn walls, and sickly yellow wallpaper—something takes shape behind the pattern.
As the wallpaper consumes her attention, domestic confinement becomes psychological captivity, medical certainty becomes control, and the boundary between the woman in the room and the woman behind the wall begins to collapse.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (492.8K)
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GenreHorror, Literary Classics
Length52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 6, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 The House Apart
5Chapter 5 The Woman Behind
2Chapter 2 The Nursery Walls
6Chapter 6 The Yellow Smell
3Chapter 3 The Watching Paper
7Chapter 7 The Woman Outside
4Chapter 4 The Pattern Beneath
8Chapter 8 The Torn Room
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