Hello! Luke here - through lockdown I've been reading old gothic ghost fiction live on my YouTube channel. These decades-old tales of horror and haunting are often creepy, reliably ridiculous and have been a brilliant distraction from a crap year.

But this story is special. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' (1892) is a masterpiece of horror fiction and an important work of feminist literature. The story is brief, but captures attitudes to women's physical and mental health in the 19th century so frightening that frankly it doesn't matter if the spectre in the wallpaper is real or not.

128 years later the story's themes of obsession and overthinking resonate hard, in a time where there is still so much work to be done around understanding and normalising mental health, so if you got a kick out of hearing this spooky story, it would be amazing if you could donate what you're able to Mind, a brilliant mental health charity.

Mind offers help for those suffering with mental health issues, support lines and community centres, and campaigns to fight the stigma around mental health. More info: https://www.mind.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/