{"podcast":{"title":"Bound in Black — Fexingo Horror","slug":"bound-in-black-fexingo-horror-7876228","podcast_index_feed_id":7876228,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/horror/bound-in-black.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/horror/bound-in-black/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/bound-in-black/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":78,"summary":"From a private library wall, Luna removes a single black-bound book—its leather cracked, its twine binding tight. This is 'Bound in Black', an anthology of stories drawn from that volume alone. Each episode is a self-contained descent into a different kind of dread: a woman who finds a photograph of herself in a book she's never opened, a man whose reflection begins aging faster than he does, a town where every library book contains a single handwritten page about the reader's deepest fear. The stories share a unifying thread—the power of what is written, what is read, and what is left between the lines. In Luna's hushed, intimate register, each tale unfolds slowly, like ink bleeding through paper, until the final sentence tightens like a knot. Open the book. Turn the page. But some words are meant to stay read. #BoundInBlack #BookHorror #LibraryHorror #BlackLeatherBook #TwineBinding #HandwrittenHorror #PageTurner #InkAndDread #PrivateLibrary #SlowBurnHorror #AnthologyHorror #DarkFiction #LunaNarrates #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #StorytellingHorror #AtmosphericHorror #HorrorStories Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T08:18:36.490680+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bound-in-black-fexingo-horror-7876228"},"episode":{"title":"The Key at the Pine Ridge Motel, August 1996","slug":"the-key-at-the-pine-ridge-motel-august-1996","published_at":"2026-06-25T16:30:07+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bound-in-black-fexingo-horror-7876228/the-key-at-the-pine-ridge-motel-august-1996","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bound-in-black-fexingo-horror-7876228","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/bound-in-black/episode-0052.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/bound-in-black/episode-0052.mp3","summary":"In August of 1996, my cousin Claire spent a single night at the Pine Ridge Motel off Route 9 in western Massachusetts. She was driving back to college early, trying to beat the heat, and she picked a place that looked cheap and quiet. But the room they gave her, number 14, had a deadbolt on the inside that didn't match the key. And the woman at the front desk kept saying the same thing: 'Don't open the door after midnight, not for anyone, not even if they say they're me.' Claire promised she wouldn't. What she heard at 2:47 AM made her break that promise. This is what she told me the next morning, shaking, with the key still in her pocket, because she never checked out. #PineRidgeMotel #Route9 #Claire #August1996 #Key #Room14 #Deadbolt #Midnight #FrontDesk #Promise #WesternMassachusetts #SmallTown #Cousin #SleeplessNight #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #BoundInBlack #SoloNarrated Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"In August of 1996, my cousin Claire spent a single night at the Pine Ridge Motel off Route 9 in western Massachusetts. She was driving back to college ear…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":412,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/bound-in-black-fexingo-horror-7876228/episodes/the-key-at-the-pine-ridge-motel-august-1996/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bound-in-black-fexingo-horror-7876228/the-key-at-the-pine-ridge-motel-august-1996.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}