“Out of my sight before I do the thing I want to do!” I came across Elia Wilkinson Peattie when I was researching a writing course. Her weird and ghost stories are wonderful — she takes ordinary, everyday situations, innocuous situations in any other imagination, and brings to them a dark (but very human) twist. In this Michigan-based story find out what happens in the old rectory’s pleasantest room when the night settles in and the fire is lit in ‘The Room of the Evil Thought’… ‘Unfeared: a podcast of ghost stories written by women’ is researched and hosted by Jacqueline Gabbitas with sound and production by Martin Parker. This episode was recorded in October 2022 before a roaring, crackling fire in Jacqueline’s home. This reading is from The Shape of Fear by Elia Wilkinson Peattie, published by Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.com). Help support Unfeared by buying us a coffee over at Kofi . You’ll find snippets about each episode’s writer, cool illustrations and downloadables as well as behind the scenes pickies.