Gothic horror narrator: Harper

Gothic horror narrator, velvety, elegant, and dreadful

Prompt: A low, velvety female voice for gothic horror. Her rich alto is elegant and shadowed, unfurling dread like black silk, Victorian in its precision. There's a candlelit-crypt beauty in her tone. The sound of a narrator who makes decay sound exquisite and terror sound like a lullaby.

Script: The manor did not welcome guests so much as swallow them. Wren felt it the moment the great door closed behind her—that subtle shift in the air, as though the house had been holding its breath for a very long time and had just, at last, decided to exhale. Somewhere above, a floorboard sighed.