Well, hello there, listeners of After Dark. I'm Anthony.

And I'm Maddie.

And today we're welcoming you to a special episode of After Dark, something a little different than usual.

Last summer, we made a documentary for history hit called Death at the Parsonage,

which explores the dark and gothic world that surrounded the famous Bronte family.

Now, with a new Wuthering Heights film being released,

we want to explore that world with you on the podcast.

It's one of, you guessed, a relentless death and tragedy, but also wild creativity and supernatural

belief, all against the backdrop of an industrial Victorian England.

This episode was recorded on location in Howarth in Yorkshire, in the home of the Brontes

themselves, where they lived, but also in its surrounding cobbled streets

and on the windswept moors that feature so dramatically in their stories.

Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte wrote some of literature's darkest, most enduring novels,

including, of course, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and the tenant of Wildfell Hall.

But where did this darkness come from? As we'll find out, death and a sense of foreboding were never far from their lives.

Right in front of the house was the church graveyard filled with the town's dead, including members of their own family.

And to the back of the house were the wild

Yorkshire Moors, an untamed landscape steeped in its own eerie folklore, and that we were

lucky enough to get to walk as part of the documentary. In the middle of all of this were the Brontes

themselves. Now today the Moors still whisper with their presence, and the house they haunted in life

is now haunted by their legacy, their brilliance and their tragedy.

First, let's get a feeling for this place where the Brontes lived and worked.

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