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Sep 2023
22m 25s

The Yellow Wallpaper

Scary Stories
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A woman confined to a room with hideous yellow wallpaper begins to question her own reality. Told by Agnes Moorehead, featuring Joe DeSantis and Anne Hunter.

Audio from this story has been newly mastered and edited from an episode of "Suspense" released June 30, 1957. The story is based on Charlotte Perkins Gillman's The Yellow Wallpaper.

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