by alliennimmons@gmail.com | Oct 26, 2021 | Season 1, Story Read
Welcome to Episode 1 of Hysteria. Today we are reading The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton, published in 1896. Gertrude Atherton was born in 1857 and was raised by her paternal grandfather, Stephen Franklin. Franklin insisted that his granddaughter – a...
by alliennimmons@gmail.com | Jul 26, 2021 | Season 1, Story Read
Welcome to Episode 2 of Hysteria. Today we are reading In the Dark by Edith Nesbit, published in 1910. Edith Nesbit was born in 1858. She was no stranger to death, losing both her father and sister before the age of 14. She was married twice and died of lung cancer in...
by alliennimmons@gmail.com | Jun 26, 2021 | Season 1, Story Read
Welcome to Episode 3 of Hysteria. Today we are reading The Hall Bedroom by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, published in 1905. In 1852, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman was born into a strict orthodox Congregationalist household and found herself consistently restrained by religion....
by alliennimmons@gmail.com | May 26, 2021 | Season 1, Story Read
Welcome to Episode 4 of Hysteria. Today we are reading Flowering Evil by Margaret St. Clair, published in 1950. Margaret St. Clair was born in 1911 and lived a very unconventional life for a woman of the early 20th century. She was raised without siblings, relying...
by alliennimmons@gmail.com | Apr 26, 2021 | Season 1, Story Read
Welcome to Episode 5 of Hysteria. Today we are reading Each Man Kills by Victoria Glad, published in 1951. Startlingly little is known about author Victoria Glad. Each Man Kills is by far her most popular story, published in Weird Tales in March of 1951. Each Man...
by alliennimmons@gmail.com | Mar 26, 2021 | Season 1, Story Read
Welcome to Episode 6 of Hysteria. Today we are reading In the Closed Room by Frances Hodgson Burnett, published in 1904. Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in 1849 to a wealth family. With the sudden death of her father when she was four, Frances, her pregnant mother and...
