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 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

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

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

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

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.

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." 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." 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." 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.