{"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 Gas Station Clerk Found the Cigarette Burns at the Salem Truck Stop","slug":"the-night-the-gas-station-clerk-found-the-cigarette-burns-at-the-salem-truck-stop","published_at":"2026-07-20T17:00:38+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-lantern-anthology-fexingo-horror-7868468/the-night-the-gas-station-clerk-found-the-cigarette-burns-at-the-salem-truck-stop","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-lantern-anthology-fexingo-horror-7868468","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/the-lantern-anthology/episode-0077.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/the-lantern-anthology/episode-0077.mp3","summary":"A true story from the graveyard shift at the Salem truck stop on Route 86, that November when the rains wouldn't stop and the pumps glowed yellow through the fog. Luna recounts the night a clerk named Cassie noticed cigarette burns on the counter that hadn't been there before—small, fresh, still warm. And the man who placed them, who never blinked, who paid for a single pack of matches with a hundred-dollar bill from a wallet that had someone else's name embossed in gold. This is what happens when a familiar routine breaks at 3:17 in the morning. This is what Cassie saw in the rearview mirror long after he'd driven away. A story about the small wrongnesses that don't correct themselves. About the moment you realise someone has been watching you longer than they should have been. And about the name you read on the back of a matchbook, and why you can't Google it. Because there is no record. Because there never was. #SalemTruckStop #Route86 #GraveyardShift #CigaretteBurns #Matches #HundredDollarBill #NoBlink #Cassie #NovemberRain #FogLights #RearviewMirror #FamiliarStranger #SmallWrongness #Watching #Unrecorded #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #TheLanternAnthology Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"A true story from the graveyard shift at the Salem truck stop on Route 86, that November when the rains wouldn't stop and the pumps glowed yellow through…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":506,"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-gas-station-clerk-found-the-cigarette-burns-at-the-salem-truck-stop/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-gas-station-clerk-found-the-cigarette-burns-at-the-salem-truck-stop.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}