Spook Lit: Audiobook Club

“The palest man, the blackest suit Bigger than the tallest brute Fear the man, the slender man For he can do what no one can” ⁃ Slenderman by Rostin Amirani - Audio: Beware the Slenderman (HBO Documentary Films) Hello and welcome to your weekend haunt with Spook Lit, an audiobook club by dreary dendrophile I’m your host Lyns, and I’ll be reading aloud our spooky stories. Thank you so much for bein...

Hello and welcome to your weekend haunt with Spook Lit, an audiobook club by dreary dendrophile I’m your host Lyns, and I’ll be reading aloud our spooky stories. Thank you so much for being here. I really hope you enjoy. First of all - wtf? We’re doing something a little different this week. Our next chapter led me down a serious rabbit hole of research, and I can’t wait to share it with you. I wa...

I step into a small room, bracing myself for that familiar smell. Decomposition. The full moon is just beginning to rise on this late evening on May 1st, Beltane. They say we are midway between the spring equinox and summer solstice. They say this midway point is similar to that of Halloween. They say the veil is equally thin now as it is then. Who knew? I am taking advantage of the quiet to get c...

A heavy hush falls over the house as we enter the ancient dining room, empty aside from a fireplace, a mirror, and a painting on the wall. “This is the room where people report seeing shadow figures,” explains my guide. I light up instantly, turning in circles and snapping photos from every direction, while she searches through her phone. I am too transfixed by the mirror hanging slightly above my...

Hello everyone, I’m just popping by for a minute to let you know the votes are in for our next Spook Lit read, and the winner is The Bell in the Fog by Gertrude Atherton. A humungous THANK YOU to everyone who voted! I really appreciate you all. I’m really excited about this one. It’s creepy, delightfully dreary and overall just perfect for Season 2. We’ll officially begin the new season in April a...

“The terror of that night was never spoken of again; but I have often thought that silence was worse than any confession.” -Elizabeth Gaskell, Gothic Tales Hello and welcome to your weekend haunt with Spook Lit, an audiobook club by dreary dendrophile I’m your host Lyns, and I’ll be reading aloud our spooky stories. Thank you so much for being here. I hope you enjoy. Previously on Spook Lit… Last...

“Death —where was he? What a curious experience: to be sitting alone in a big house… waiting for Death to come and snatch her husband from her. No; he would not snatch, he would steal upon his prey as noiselessly as the approach of Sin to Innocence-an invisible, unfair, sneaking enemy, with whom no man’s strength could grapple. If he would only come like a man, and take his chances like a man! Wom...

“We’ll never find a ghost in this bar - it’s too loud,” Marty whispers to me, not trying to attract the bartender. Our group has already drawn enough attention with our K2 EMF meters, flashing green-yellow-red in response to any enigmas. “I know where we can find one!” I breathe excitedly. “Come with me!” We brush swiftly past the bustling bar and through the wooden door in the back of the pub. We...

I hear a faint whimper as I start to run a bath for my dog’s swim therapy. I pause, listening, shutting off the water and holding my breath. Silence. I turn the handle once more. The water flows warm and steamy against the foggy rain spattering the windows. I fumble for a towel and shove it into the dryer to warm up. Just as I turn the knob, I hear it. Loud, high-pitched moaning. A dog whimpering...

I pause in the stony entrance of a casemate in arguably the most haunted military fort in the country. It holds rumors of hauntings dating back to the 1700s. I step tentatively through the powder magazine room, searching for shadows. They say this is the most common place for apparitions to appear. This chamber is cold and musty, its ancient walls swallowed by vines. Its crumbling hearth lies floo...

I step tentatively into a dark upstairs bedroom in what is known as America's most haunted house. The room closes in on me, heavily... waiting. I'm alone in the dark, the only light filtering through the lacy curtains from the street lamps below. I feel a wave of melancholy wash over me as I sit down on the creaking wooden floorboards. I switch my recorder on and set it on the floor beside me. "Vi...

Spirits wander in the woods behind the Conjuring House. A group of us are hiking out to meet them on a humid Summer night, just before midnight. A black creek burbles and splashes ominously, drowned out by an orchestra of buzzing and chirping - crickets singing the world to sleep. The night has come alive. Our boots squelch through mud and thump softly onto a wooden bridge. We spread out against t...

My friends and I creep cautiously around the dimly lit basement, EMF detectors at the ready. We slip past an armory of multifarious antiques, an ancient treadmill, a foggy old mirror. Readings are negligible. No evidence of ghosts here, much to my chagrin. We climb the stairs to the main floor of the hundred-year-old house, into the kitchen and down the hallway toward the bedrooms. Lights flicker...

I feel like I’m being watched as I creak slowly up the basement stairs at the Conjuring House , exiting into a dimly lit parlor. I’m greeted by a massive stone hearth, next to the infamous antique cabinet that clicks open on its own whenever things get a little too quiet. I pause for a moment at the basement threshold, admiring a drawing of Abigail Arnold, who inhabited the home when it was the Ar...

It’s 3:00 AM at the Evergreen Masonic Lodge in Seaside, Oregon. A group of us are scattered about the darkened room, slouched in disheveled leather arm chairs. Infrared lights and red laser grids illuminate the aging wooden walls. A woman sits on a folding chair in the center of the room, blindfolded. She wears large noise-canceling headphones, listening to the static white noise of a spirit box a...

The pre-school teacher hears the disembodied giggle as she locks up for the night. She glances nervously around the dark wooden hallways beneath the main arcade at Pike Place Market. All the shops are closed. The lower levels are silent. Except for the childlike laughter coming from the room she just locked. There must be a child left behind - hidden in a closet or under a desk, playing hide and s...

Show Notes: Welcome to Spook Lit—an Audiobook Club by Dreary Dendrophile! Hi Friends, Thank you for joining us for Spook Lit! You are the greatest! Every Monday, paid subscribers receive the next chapter delivered to their inbox. For those who prefer to read along, photos of the text are included at the bottom of the show notes. Want to join the club? Upgrade your membership for just $2.50/month w...

Show Notes: Welcome to Spook Lit—an Audiobook Club by Dreary Dendrophile! Hi Friends, Thank you for being part of Spook Lit! I am so glad you’re here. Every Monday, paid subscribers receive the next chapter delivered to their inbox. For those who prefer to read along, photos of the text are included at the bottom of the show notes. Want to join the club? Upgrade your membership for just $2.50/mont...

Show Notes: Welcome to Spook Lit—an Audiobook Club by Dreary Dendrophile! You know the drill…every Monday, paid subscribers receive the next chapter delivered to their inbox. For those who prefer to read along, photos of the text are included at the bottom of the show notes. Want to join the club? Upgrade your membership for just $2.50/month with an annual subscription. (You may need to exit the a...

Show Notes: Welcome to Spook Lit—an Audiobook Club by Dreary Dendrophile! Every Monday, paid subscribers receive the next chapter delivered to their inbox. For those who prefer to read along, photos of the text are included at the bottom of the show notes. Want to join the club? Upgrade your membership for just $2.50/month with an annual subscription. (You may need to exit the app and use a web br...

Show Notes: Welcome to Spook Lit—an Audiobook Club by Dreary Dendrophile! Every Monday, paid subscribers receive the next chapter delivered to their inbox. For those who prefer to read along, photos of the text are included at the bottom of the show notes. Want to join the club? Upgrade your membership for just $2.50/month with an annual subscription. (You may need to exit the app and use a web br...

Welcome to Spook Lit—an Audiobook Club by Dreary Dendrophile! Every Monday, paid subscribers receive the next chapter delivered to your inbox, ready for a haunting good time. For those who prefer to read along, I’m including photos of the text at the bottom of each post. In this chapter ( Round the Fire. First Evening. ), we explore two stories about ghostly visitations before friends and family a...

Welcome to Spook Lit—an Audiobook Club by Dreary Dendrophile! Every Monday, paid subscribers will receive the next chapter delivered to your inbox, ready for a haunting good time. For those who prefer to read along, I’m including photos of the text at the bottom of each post. Ghosts and Family Legends by Catherine Crowe “A wonderful and entertaining collection of ghost stories by Catherine Crowe.”...