On this episode of the Story Vault, a quiet summer escape becomes a locked room of the mind.

On this episode of Story Vault with BJ Odom, BJ brings Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s haunting 1892 classic, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” to life. Confined by her physician husband to an upstairs nursery and forbidden from working or writing, a young woman becomes increasingly consumed by the room’s sickly yellow wallpaper and the figure she believes is trapped behind it.

Part psychological horror, part Gothic mystery, and part indictment of the “rest cure” imposed on women of the era, this unforgettable story builds toward one of the most chilling endings in classic literature.

Put on your headphones, dim the lights, and step inside The Story Vault.