W.B. Yeats’s He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead stands out as an unusual take on the Gothic tradition, subverting its typical themes of mourning a lost lover or yearning for a love that has already slipped into death. Instead of lamenting a beloved who has died, the speaker disturbingly expresses a wish for his beloved to die—not out of cruelty, but from a twisted longing to finally experience the depth of her love in the stillness and silence of the grave. So, let's dive into that!

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This week I want to introduce a new sort of segment to Audibly Haunted called Audibly Haunted Read Alongs. Here I will read to you the story we have analysis the week before but now with your minds full of what the themes are an how they come to play you get to see the story in a different light. This week we kick off our first Read Along with Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Wives of the Dead. So, let’s dive into that.

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This week I bring to you a short story from an author I have mentioned here before. That Author is Nathaniel Hawthorne and the story for this week's episode is “The Wives of the Dead”. This story walks the fine line between the ambiguity of death and grief with an air of supernatural eeriness. The ending to this tale leaves the reader left guessing what is actually real and what is but a dream casted by a mourning and grieving heart. So, let’s dive into that.

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