{"podcast":{"title":"The Lantern Anthology — Fexingo Horror","slug":"the-lantern-anthology-fexingo-horror-7868468","podcast_index_feed_id":7868468,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/horror/the-lantern-anthology.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/horror/the-lantern-anthology/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/the-lantern-anthology/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":85,"summary":"Under the amber glow of a hurricane lantern in a dusty attic, Luna opens a worn hardcover and reads stories that are not meant to be read alone. Each episode of The Lantern Anthology is a self-contained tale drawn from a fictional collection of lost and forbidden literature — forgotten folklore, abandoned manuscripts, letters never sent. The stories wander through isolated farmhouses at dusk, towns swallowed by forest, and roads that appear only on maps no one remembers drawing. Some whisper of bargains made with creatures beneath the floorboards; others speak of inheritances that should have been refused. There is no single arc, only the quiet certainty that the next story might be the one that follows you home. Luna's voice is a low, unhurried presence, as if she knows you are listening in the dark. Settle in. The lamp is lit, and the pages are turning. #TheLanternAnthology #LanternStories #AtmosphericHorror #FolkloreHorror #ForgottenTales #LostLiterature #CandlelitHorror #IsolatedHorror #RuralDread #StorybookHorror #NarratedHorror #FictionalFolklore #AbandonedPlaces #MidnightReading #CreepyTales #Horror #HorrorPodcast #StorytellingHorror Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.co…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T08:18:15.159395+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-lantern-anthology-fexingo-horror-7868468"},"episode":{"title":"The Night the Bridge Keeper Took Names at the Saylor Creek Crossing","slug":"the-night-the-bridge-keeper-took-names-at-the-saylor-creek-crossing","published_at":"2026-06-23T16:18:22+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-lantern-anthology-fexingo-horror-7868468/the-night-the-bridge-keeper-took-names-at-the-saylor-creek-crossing","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-lantern-anthology-fexingo-horror-7868468","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/the-lantern-anthology/episode-0050.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/the-lantern-anthology/episode-0050.mp3","summary":"On a humid August night in 1987, a young woman named Ellen drove down a gravel road in eastern Kentucky toward a bridge that should not have had a keeper. The man in the folding chair by the Saylor Creek bridge did not look like a toll collector — he looked like someone who had been waiting a very long time. He asked for her name. Then he asked for the name of the person she had lost. Ellen told him about her grandmother, who had died three days before. The keeper wrote both names in a ledger the size of a family Bible. Then he told her that the bridge only lets you cross if you understand what you are leaving behind. Ellen crossed. But the next morning, she found the ledger page folded in her back pocket, and her grandmother's name was crossed out with a line so thin it could have been a spider's thread. Some stories are not about ghosts. They are about the weight of a name that is still counted. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #TheLanternAnthology #BridgeKeeper #SaylorCreek #Ledger #Names #Grief #Crossing #1987 #Kentucky #GravelRoad #TollBooth #AugustNight #EveryNameMatters #WhatYouLeaveBehind #Unsettling #Atmospheric Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"On a humid August night in 1987, a young woman named Ellen drove down a gravel road in eastern Kentucky toward a bridge that should not have had a keeper.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":412,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-lantern-anthology-fexingo-horror-7868468/episodes/the-night-the-bridge-keeper-took-names-at-the-saylor-creek-crossing/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-lantern-anthology-fexingo-horror-7868468/the-night-the-bridge-keeper-took-names-at-the-saylor-creek-crossing.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}