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Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense
Hosted by CM Rosens · EN
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.
S01: The complete novel THE CROWS, Gothic Horror with tentacles for spooky soap opera lovers, read by the author.
S02: The complete novel THIRTEENTH, an eldritch coming-of-rage tale, read by the author.
S03: The complete novel THE DAY WE ATE GRANDAD, an urban fantasy cosmic horror, read by the author.
S04: The complete novel YELEN & YELENA, a Gothic Dark Fantasy based on Beauty and the Beast, with aromantic m/f monster spice and a queer cast.
S05: Mini series for A SCARE A DAY reading challenge, where I talk about the stories and poems set for each day of October 2025, and read my creative fiction and non-fiction responses to them.
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#AScareADay - October Reading Challenge Days 30-31
Oct 3100:42:19Tap to summarizeThe 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) – Read it here or listen hereOctober 18th – Everill Worrell – ‘The Canal’ (1927) – Read and listen to it hereOctober 8th – Rhoda Broughton – ‘The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing but the Truth’ (1868) – Read it hereLeague of its own: October 24th – Lisa L Hannett – ‘Sweet Subtleties’ (2012) – Read it hereThere are so many from this year's list that I loved.I also go into my top 10 films for the #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days challenge, which I've now completed!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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#AScareADay - October Reading Challenge Days 28-29
Oct 2900:30:37Tap to summarizeOnly 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 Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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#AScareADay - October Reading Challenge Days 25-27
Oct 2700:43:54Tap to summarizeI 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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#AScareADay - October Reading Challenge Days 21-24
Oct 2400:52:32Tap to summarizeHave 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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#AScareADay - October Reading Challenge Days 18-20
Oct 2100:33:37Tap to summarizeToday 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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#AScareADay - October Reading Challenge Days 14-17
Oct 2000:56:23Tap to summarizeI 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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#AScareADay - October Reading Challenge Days 10-13
Oct 1701:03:29Tap to summarizeMore 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.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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#AScareADay - October Reading Challenge Days 08-09
Oct 1500:52:02Tap to summarizeMINI 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 horrors haunting a room - the vampire furniture of Glamorgan is back!For Day 09, I've got an unseen draft chapter of my new Gothic Fantasy novel - currently a work in progress - As Below, So Above.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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#AScareADay - October Reading Challenge Days 01-07
Oct 1300:53:31Tap to summarizeMINI 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 (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Yelen and Yelena Chapter 20: A Mortal Ending
Jun 3, 202500:59:00Tap to summarizeYelena, 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. SCP-x4x, Giant Wyrm.
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