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Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense

Welcome to Eldritch Girl, where I provide the free audio versions of my fiction in full as read-along weekly serials, with short fiction and author interviews as bonus content.

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42:19

#AScareADay - October Reading Challenge Days 30-31

Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense ·

2025/10/31

The final two days - and my top 5 from the whole list!You can find all the list and links on romancingthegothic.com and individual daily posts on my Ko-Fi and at cmrosens.com.Get the OCCUPYING BODIES anthology, out now!My top 5 #AScareADay stories:October 27th – Helen Stubbs – ‘Uncontainable’ (2016) – Read it hereOctober 28th – Nibedita Sen – ‘Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnibar Island’ (2019) – Read it hereOctober 15th – Conrad Aiken – ‘The Vampire’ (1916)

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30:37

#AScareADay - October Reading Challenge Days 28-29

Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense ·

2025/10/29

Only 2 days to catch up with now, so this is a shorter episode! I tried my hand at fragment writing, and also a web comic style story with photos I took, and stock photos I found in Canva. So these two days are both a bit experimental! You can find them on cmrosens.com and all the challenge stories listed on romancingthegothic.com if you want to find them.CW for body horrorIntro/Outro Credits:"Danse Macabre - Busy Strings" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By

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43:54

#AScareADay - October Reading Challenge Days 25-27

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2025/10/27

I loved these stories/poems, and highly recommend them. Get ahead or do the challenge day by day: https://romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/21/the-scare-a-day-challenge-october-2025/My creative responses vary from Changelings to Beverley Wend & Eglantine Pritchard, and more...Intro/Outro Music Credits: "Danse Macabre - Busy Strings" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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52:32

#AScareADay - October Reading Challenge Days 21-24

Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense ·

2025/10/24

Have a read of the stories for these days and join in with your own thoughts - here are mine, along with media recs, and creative responses! Go over to cmrosens.com for all my #AScareADay posts, and to find all the links mentioned in this episode.Intro/Outro Music Credits: "Danse Macabre - Busy Strings" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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33:37

#AScareADay - October Reading Challenge Days 18-20

Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense ·

2025/10/21

Today we've got more vampire fiction, sapphic fiction, and domestic horror. Let's dive in!Follow the challenge list: https://romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/21/the-scare-a-day-challenge-october-2025/Read the posts on my website and on my Ko-Fi. Intro/Outro Credits:"Danse Macabre - Busy Strings" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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56:23

#AScareADay - October Reading Challenge Days 14-17

Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense ·

2025/10/20

I share my thoughts and creative fiction and nonfiction responses on the 3 poems and stories on the #AScareADay 2025 challenge list for Oct 14-16. Check the full list out on www.romancingthegothic.com and check out the daily posts on my Ko-Fi and my website.Intro/Outro Music Credit:"Danse Macabre - Busy Strings" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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63:29

#AScareADay - October Reading Challenge Days 10-13

Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense ·

2025/10/17

More new-to-me poets and authors, courtesy of the romancingthegothic.com A Scare A Day reading challenge running through October. Join in on social media with the tag #AScareADay. Here are my thoughts on, and creative responses to, the next few days of the challenge. You can find all my posts so far on cmrosens.com - I'm posting every day of October at 6:30PM UK time. My Ko-Fi posts, open to all, go live 10:30AM UK time.

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52:02

#AScareADay - October Reading Challenge Days 08-09

Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense ·

2025/10/15

MINI SEASON!Catch up with the reading challenge list on romancingthegothic.com and all my posts on cmrosens.com and ko-fi.com/cmrosens. Days 08-09 are here, with my thoughts on the 2 stories for these days, but beware as spoilers abound - I give full summaries of these 19thC short tales. One is a new-to-me author (Rhoda Broughton), the other is not new to me, but I've never read this short story before (Margaret Oliphant). For Day 08, I have some recs for you, and also I have folklore of unseen

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53:31

#AScareADay - October Reading Challenge Days 01-07

Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense ·

2025/10/13

MINI SEASON!Days 01-07 of #AScareADay, featuring my thoughts on each of the challenge reads and summary (with spoilers) of the stories and poems. We go from the 1600s-1800s this week! Additionally this year I'm posting some creative responses, using the stories and poems as prompts. Some of these pieces are brand new for the challenge, and I've had a lot of fun with them. Find all my posts on Ko-Fi and cmrosens.com.Intro/Outro Music Credit: "Danse Macabre - Busy Strings" Kevin MacLeod

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59:00

Yelen and Yelena Chapter 20: A Mortal Ending

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2025/06/03

Yelena, Yelen, and Velna must all come to terms with the situations they are in, and face some very difficult decisions. CW: on page suicide, threatened execution, body horror.Music Credits:Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Intro/Outro : Quinn's Song: The Dance BeginsSoundtrack: Quinn's Song - A New Man, Bittersweet, Leaving Home, Redletter, Morgana Rides, The Stages of Grief, Midnight Tale, Achaidh Cheide

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64:02

Worldbuilding Chat with Rob Mitchelmore (aka...

Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense ·

2025/06/01

An hour special chatting with Rob Mitchelmore about worldbuilding on hard mode, so if you're up for some full nerding out on constructing fictional ancient cultures, playing with mythology, and some of the pitfalls to be mindful of in the process, join us for this special worldbuilding chat! We read a small segment of The Marriage of the Fire Under Water and Gale, for two voices, as a jumping off point to talking about Rob's fictional city state near Carthage (the story itself is set just before the

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31:17

Yelen and Yelena Chapter 19: The Embrace

Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense ·

2025/05/27

Yelena confronts the Mortress and learns what she must do to save her world.CWs: death, some depictions of bones and impalement.Music Credits:Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Intro/Outro: Quinn's Song: The Dance BeginsSoundtrack: Gregorian Chant, Devastation & Revenge, Morgana Rides

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39:45

Author Interview with Jackson P. Brown: Urban...

Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense ·

2025/05/25

Jackson P. Brown (she/her) is a writer from London, an anime and manga enthusiast, and the founder of Black Girl Writers — a mentoring programme for aspiring Black writers. She won Penguin Random House’s #WriteNow competition in 2020, and signed a 3-book deal with Del Rey UK for her debut adult fantasy series, GETHSEMANE. We chat about the British class system, worldbuilding, and her debut novel THE REAPER coming 2025.Website: jacksonpbrown.comFollow her on Threads/IG: @_JackPBrown & TikTok:

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28:24

Yelen and Yelena Chapter 18: Meeting the Mortress

Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense ·

2025/05/20

... Things go downhill. But not, we hope, for the lovely indie (and trad) authors who have a shout out at the end of the episode! Head over to cmrosens.com to check out my 2025 Author Spotlights and you'll find a whole host of books awaiting you.Don't forget to support the podcast on Ko-Fi!CWs: loss of bodily autonomy, violenceMusic Credits:Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Intro/Outro: Quinn's Song: The

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34:44

Yelen and Yelena Chapter 16: The Curse-Damned and...

Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense ·

2025/05/14

Yelena discovers the downside of living in the castle for so long, and the Mortress begins to interfere.CWs: Nightmares of the rot, possession horror, autonomy, relapseMusic Credits:Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Intro/Outro: Quinn's Dream: The Dance BeginsSoundtrack: Bittersweet, Quinn's Dream: A New Man, Giant Wyrm, Morgana Rides, Magic Forest, Redletter

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31:49

Yelen and Yelena Chapter 15: A New Arrival

Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense ·

2025/05/07

Velna arrives in the castle and meets the monster of the fireside tales, but is she the same woman Yelena knew? Stick around for my Indie Author Spotlights and shout-outs at the end, and head to cmrosens.com/author-spotlight-series to check them all out!CWs: Loss of agency and autonomy, depression themes - these increase from this chapter onwards. Music Credits:Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Intro/Outro:

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41:20

Author Interview with Jamison Shea: Monsters, Monster...

Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense ·

2025/05/04

This interview is with author Jamison Shea on their duology I Feed Her To The Beast And The Beast Is Me, and I Am The Dark That Answers When You Call. Also a bit more on their upcoming summer 2025 release, Roar of the Lambs. We chat about monstrosity, monsters in media, and Jamison's work. cmrosens.com has the full transcript with links and images, and the plain text transcript is available here.

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32:15

Yelen and Yelena Chapter 14: Dark Snows

Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense ·

2025/04/29

Part 3: The RotVelna flees the village after a single act of defiance brings the soldiers down on them, but what is waiting in the forest is worse... Stick around to the end as Worldbuilding Part 3 is at the end of this chapter, and I talk about how I went about constructing my fantasy religions for this novel.CWs: eviction, animal death (an owl), mycelial body horror, fear of drowning/freezing to death.Music Credits:Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0

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29:52

Yelen and Yelena Chapter 13: Water and Winter

Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense ·

2025/04/22

Yelen and Yelena head down to the dungeons and the underground spring to do some blood letting, and Yelen begins to accept personal responsibility for his past. Stick around to the end of this shorter chapter for some behind-the-scenes worldbuilding chat, where I discuss my influences and how I used folklore and Beauty and the Beast adaptations to help shape the world and the characters. CWs: Depression, and suicide ideation more pronounced here. Blood-letting with antique medical

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42:34

Author Interview with S.R. Severn: Dark Fantasy...

Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense ·

2025/04/20

S.R. Severn, a British dark fantasy romance author, blends steampunk and mythology in her works, focusing on morally complex characters. Inspired by her love for romance novels and Greek mythology, she self-published her debut in 2014, republished in 2024 as “Pirate’s Vow”, Book 1 of the Jackson J Tales. Book 2 is out now!

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