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Oh, the hard truths of perennial Poe. Grab your torch. Watch your step. It's time to descend. You can leave a response to this show in your very own voice at https://www.speakpipe.com/billoberstjr. Your weird family is dying to hear from you!

Season 2 of the Moonlit Library begins, and Bill has just the thing to soothe your monstrous soul - an M.R. James tale. For best results, wait until bedtime and listen in the dark! Leave a voice response to this episode at https://www.speakpipe.com/billoberstjr (https://www.speakpipe.com/billoberstjr) Your message may be played next time.

Season Finale: An audio time capsule to the future from Gothic Goodnight listeners. The spirits of the soon-to-be-dead speak to the spirits of the soon-to-be-living...just before the long sleep.

Howl at the moon as Bill reads from "The Werewolf In Lore & Legend." We need YOUR voice for the Audible.com collection of Gothic Goodnight episodes - leave a voice message for future generations right now! https://www.speakpipe.com/billoberstjr (https://www.speakpipe.com/billoberstjr)

Bill reads us to sleep from a translation of Gaston Leroux's 1910 "The Phantom of the Opera." Wounded monsters are always welcome in the Moonlit Library! Leave us a voice message with your response to this or any episode: https://www.speakpipe.com/billoberstjr (https://www.speakpipe.com/billoberstjr)

Bill is reminded that he's overlooked some rather important writers in his Moonlit Library bedtime readings, and seeks to remedy the situation posthaste! Leave us a free voice message from anywhere in the world with your thoughts on any Gothic Goodnight episode: https://www.speakpipe.com/billoberstjr (https://www.speakpipe.com/billoberstjr)

Bill's come up from the basement of the Moonlit Library with a 19th century newspaper clipping for tonight's gothic bedtime snack: a storm, a derelict ship, an onboard horror...Alucard! You can leave a free voice message with your response to any Gothic Goodnight at https://www.speakpipe.com/billoberstjr (https://www.speakpipe.com/billoberstjr)

Bill's been up to a high section of the Moonlit Library to retrieve tonight's reading, an 1891 masterpiece by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. Why not leave Bill a voicemail with your response to the show? It's free at https://www.speakpipe.com/billoberstjr (https://www.speakpipe.com/billoberstjr).

Bill invites you into the moonlit library for sleepy musings on dual things, and reads you to rest from Washington Irving's "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow." https://www.speakpipe.com/billoberstjr (Leave us a free voice message by clicking here).

Bill invites you into the moonlit library for a bedtime bite - H.P. Lovecraft's 1921 weird tale "The Outsider." https://www.speakpipe.com/billoberstjr (Click here to leave a quick, free voice message to the show) so Bill can play it for your fellow listeners next week.

Bill welcomes you to the moonlit library for a bedtime reading of Nathaniel Hawthorne's strange "The Minister's Black Veil." https://www.speakpipe.com/billoberstjr (Click here to leave a free voice message for Bill and fellow listeners. Share your ruminations.) Your message may be played on the next show.

Bill shares a midnight snack in the moonlit library, with bits of Poe's The Bells, Alone & The Imp Of The Perverse. https://www.speakpipe.com/billoberstjr (Click here to leave a free voice message for Bill and fellow Gothic Goodnight listeners.) Your message may be played on next week's podcast.

Are you afraid of the dark? What is your relationship with the night? Bill wants to know. https://www.speakpipe.com/billoberstjr (Click here to leave us a voice message answer). It may be included on next week's show.

Bill invites you into his moonlit library and reads from Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson. https://www.speakpipe.com/billoberstjr (Click here to record your audio review of this episode).

Bill roams his moonlit library and pulls down The Hollow of the Three Hills by Nathaniel Hawthorne & The Conquerer Worm by Edgar Allan Poe. https://www.speakpipe.com/BillOberstJr (Click here to record your audio response to this episode).