This episode’s story is another favorite of mine by H.P. Lovecraft. I find this story particularly intriguing, being an artist myself, and in typical Lovecraft fashion, it is being told through the recollection of an observer.

You can read this story and more by H.P. Lovecraft in the archive at

https://www.hplovecraft.com/

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Welcome to THE WEIRD LIBRARY, a horror anthology podcast featuring modern voices in weird fiction.

Host, narration and music by the librarian, Bridgette Brenmark

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To close out Women in Horror Month, I am bringing to you a story by C.M. Rosens, which features a woman named Charlie. Charlie is a photographer, living life behind the safety of her lens. When she meets a man whose image cannot be committed to memory, either in person or in a photograph, she becomes dangerously obsessed with what he looks like.

C.M. Rosens is a genre-bending hybrid author of Gothic Horror, New Weird, and dark Sci-fi and Fantasy, based in the U.K. Find her traveling by rail, wandering among lonely ruins and ancient megaliths, and lost in worlds of fiction, music and folklore.

She is an active member of the Horror Writers Association and British Fantasy Society, and her fiction is published with Canelo (which is owned by Penguin Random House), Black Hare Press, and Red Cape Publishing, among other places. She is a multiple Indie Ink Awards nominee. Find out more at cmrosens.com

This story is produced with permission from the author.

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Welcome to THE WEIRD LIBRARY, a horror anthology podcast featuring modern voices in weird fiction.

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Learn more at www.weirdlibrary.com

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Today is the spring equinox, a time of equal day and night, a transitional space between the seasons. In this vain, I have selected two stories for a special double feature that will bring you to an opening in the forest, a magical place for transformations.

Our first story, The Bride of Starfire Hallow, is by Cassandra Celia.

Cassandra Celia (they/them) is a Maryland bookseller turned author who writes dark, weird, and horrific lit fiction. Their work includes The Elric Undoing and their newest release, House of Harrow. They’re obsessed with stories that blur the lines between love and death, beauty and rot, and endings that don’t feel like endings at all. Cassandra finds inspiration in haunting art, unsettling media, and has a particular fondness for angry, scorned women clawing their way through the dark.

Our second story, The Beast of Villanor, is by Max D. Stanton.

Max D. Stanton is a bookish, morbid Dungeons *& Dragons nerd who lives in Philadelphia with his common-law wife, their hound, and an ever-growing collection of cats. An unexpected meeting with the Devil inspired Max to take up writing. His first short story collection, A Season of Loathsome Miracles, is available from Trepidatio Publishing.

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Welcome to THE WEIRD LIBRARY, a horror anthology podcast featuring modern voices in weird fiction.

Host, narration and music by the librarian, Bridgette Brenmark

Learn more at www.weirdlibrary.com

Subscribe to THE WEIRD LIBRARY:

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There was something unnatural about the color of the sky. Perhaps, that was the worst part.

In celebration of Women in Horror month, this episode's story is: The Ever After by L. Marie Wood. This story appeared in the Stoker nominated anthology, Sycorax's Daughters.

Host, narration and music by the librarian, Bridgette Brenmark

A celebrated psychological horror author, L. Marie Wood is the winner of multiple awards including the Bram Stoker Award, the Golden Stake Award for Literature, and the International Impact Book Award. She is also a MICO Award-winning screenwriter, an Elgin Award finalist poet, an accomplished essayist, and a playwright. Wood is the President of the Horror Writer’s Association, the founder of the Speculative Fiction Academy, an English and Creative Writing professor as well as a horror scholar. Learn more at www.lmariewood.com

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Welcome to THE WEIRD LIBRARY, a horror anthology podcast featuring modern voices in weird fiction.

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Subscribe to THE WEIRD LIBRARY:

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On the thirteenth day of Christmas, well, the holidays may truly be over.

This episode’s story is: “The Thirteenth Day of Christmas” by Max D. Stanton, narrated by Mike Davis of the Lovecraft eZine.

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Max D. Stanton is a Dungeons & Dragons nerd who lives in Philadelphia with his common-law wife and their unruly animals. An unexpected meeting with the Devil inspired Max to take up writing. His first short story collection, A Season of Loathsome Miracles, is available from Trepidation Publishing.

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Welcome to THE WEIRD LIBRARY, a horror anthology podcast featuring modern voices in weird fiction.

Host (aka librarian) and music by: Bridgette Brenmark

Learn more at www.weirdlibrary.com

Subscribe to THE WEIRD LIBRARY:

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The Weird Library is produced by Dark Side of the Bridge Studios LLC

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A university student finds unique lodging where he encounters a mysterious musician who plays melodies of an otherworldly nature.

This episode’s story is: “The Music of Erich Zann” by H.P. Lovecraft

Host (aka librarian), narration and music by: Bridgette Brenmark

A great resource for H.P. Lovecraft stories online can be found at: https://www.hplovecraft.com/

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Welcome to THE WEIRD LIBRARY, a horror anthology podcast featuring modern voices in weird fiction.

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A child left at home without parental supervision for an extended holiday may be frightened, but they might also *find themselves resourceful in unusual ways, a Lovecraftian pastiche.

This episode’s story is: “454 Angels” by Anthony Pearce

Narrated by Anthony Pearce

Host (aka librarian) and music by: Bridgette Brenmark

“454 Angell” is produced for The Weird Library with permission from the author.

You can learn more about Anthony at https://anthonypearcecreative.com

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Welcome to THE WEIRD LIBRARY, a horror anthology podcast featuring modern voices in weird fiction.

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Subscribe to THE WEIRD LIBRARY:

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