Petra's Dark & Dreamy: Gothic Sleep Stories & Macabre Verse

 In At The Mountains of Madness, Chapter Nine, Dyer and Danforth push deeper into the ancient alien city and study the murals carved into its walls. The carvings reveal the full rise and fall of the Old Ones — how they created the Shoggoths as laborers, how those creatures evolved, rebelled, and ultimately overran the city. The chapter shifts from archaeological discovery to dawning terror as they understand the place isn’t as...

Join me as I share a new recording of my favorite poem, The Highwayman, by Alfred Noyes.

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In Chapter 8 of At The Mountains of Madness, Dyer and Danforth explore the ancient alien city and find huge murals that reveal the whole history of the Old Ones: they came from space, built a massive civilization, created the shoggoths as slaves, and eventually got wrecked by shoggoth rebellions and changing Earth condi...

At the Mountains of Madness is a chilling Antarctic expedition tale by H.P. Lovecraft. Told through the eyes of a scientist, it blends real exploration with growing unease as the team ventures deeper into the frozen wastes. The story builds an atmosphere of isolation, cosmic dread, and the sense that humanity is brushing against mysteries it was never meant to uncover.

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Thank you for counting down to All Hallows Eve with me! I hope you enjoyed this journey as much as I have. Please be sure to like, follow, subscribe, download and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform if you would like more sleepy gothic stories by Petra.

“The Tomb” by H. P. Lovecraft is a gothic short story about a young man named Jervas Dudley, who becomes obsessed with a mysterious, sealed family crypt belonging to the...

***WARNING, this episode contains VIOLENCE***

Unlock the mysteries of the night with Petra's Dark & Dreamy. Drift into tranquility with our immersive sleep stories, where every episode weaves a spellbinding narrative designed to lull you into a restful slumber. Embrace the enchanting blend of soothing voices and captivating tales, and let your dreams take flight with Petra's Dark and Dreamy. Sweet dreams awai...

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DAY 26! The Witch's Daughter, by John Greenleaf Whittier, explores themes of social prejudice, religious intolerance, and the resilience of the human spirit. I like this story's moral, to think of others with compassion and refrain from judgment, and I hope you can understand it through the old English poetry.

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Day 25 of our Countdown to Hallows Eve contains three poems involving witches. One from the perspective of a woman who helps a witch, one of the witches themselves, and one of a woman who perhaps wished ill upon a witch.

THE WITCH, by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Excerpt from THE SCOTTISH PLAY, by WIlliam Shakespeare

A SALEM MOTHER, Theodosia Garrison (Hamilton, anyone?)

Countdown this Halloween with creepy, gothic horror sleep stories! Pe...

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For Day 23 of our HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN we released a video episode on YouTube, be sure to watch there if you like! Dark poetry, today. 

THE CONQUEROR WORM, by Edgar Allen Poe

THE ERL-KING, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Countdown this Halloween with creepy, gothic horror sleep stories! Petra's soothing, alluring voice gently guides you through haunting tales designed to...

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For Day 22 of our countdown to All Hallow's Eve, join us in a celebration of stories, tales, poetry, gothic, macabre and mysterious! I am revisiting Hansel and Gretel, as I am currently working on a project of this title in my life outside of the podcast.

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Unlock the mysteries of the night with Petra's Dark & Dreamy. Drift into tranquility with our immersive sleep stories, where every episode weaves a spellbinding narrative designed to lull you into a restful slumber. Embrace the enchanting blend of soothing voices and captivating tales, and let your dreams take flight with Petra's Dark and Dreamy. Sweet dreams awai...

At the Mountains of Madness is a chilling Antarctic expedition tale by H.P. Lovecraft. Told through the eyes of a scientist, it blends real exploration with growing unease as the team ventures deeper into the frozen wastes. The story builds an atmosphere of isolation, cosmic dread, and the sense that humanity is brushing against mysteries it was never meant to uncover.

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Join us for Night 19 of our countdown to All Hallow's Eve celebration of stories, tales, poetry, gothic, macabre and mysterious! Tonight we float in the City in the Sea by Edgar Allan Poe.

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Day 18 of Gothic Tales and Sleepy Stories counting down to All Hallow's Eve...Part 2 of The Minister's Black Veil...

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Unlock the mysteries of the night with Petra's Dark & Dreamy. Drift into tranquility with our immersive sleep stories, where every episode weaves a spellbinding narrative designed to lull you into a restful slumber. Embrace the enchanting blend of soothing voices and captivating tales, and let your dreams take flight with Petra's Dark and Dreamy. Sweet dreams await!

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I thought halfway through our October countdown would be a great time to re-introduce myself for those of you that are new to Petra's Dark & Dreamy! 

Unlock the mysteries of the night with Petra's Dark & Dreamy. Drift into tranquility with our immersive sleep stories, where every episode weaves a spellbinding narrative designed to lull you into a restful slumber. Embrace the enchanting blend of soothing voices and ...

Day 15, better late than never! My apologies, listeners, a cold kept me down. Part 1 of the Minister's Black Veil, part two will come out on Day 16.

Please help the podcast earn sponsors be setting your devices to auto-downloads (you can delete them later!) We are more than halfway to our goal of 1000 downloads per month in order to receive monetization! Now that we have almost 100 episodes, if you are set to auto-download maki...