{"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 Librarian Found the Last Book on the Shelf at the Hemlock Falls Public Library","slug":"the-night-the-librarian-found-the-last-book-on-the-shelf-at-the-hemlock-falls-public-library","published_at":"2026-07-19T15:44:59+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-lantern-anthology-fexingo-horror-7868468/the-night-the-librarian-found-the-last-book-on-the-shelf-at-the-hemlock-falls-public-library","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-lantern-anthology-fexingo-horror-7868468","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/the-lantern-anthology/episode-0076.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/the-lantern-anthology/episode-0076.mp3","summary":"August 1987. A stifling Saturday night in Hemlock Falls, Missouri. Luna’s cousin Ellen, the night librarian at the Hemlock Falls Public Library, is closing up when she notices a single book left on the reference shelf—a worn volume with no spine label, no barcode, no checkout card. Inside, a handwritten note in neat cursive: 'Read me last.' The book has no author, no title page, no publication date. But as Ellen reads the first paragraph aloud, the lights flicker, and the temperature drops. By the third page, she realizes the story inside is about her—only the ending is wrong. The book knows her. It knows what she did last summer. And it has its own ending waiting. Luna retells the story Ellen told her over the phone that night, her voice low and urgent, the lantern flame trembling as she speaks. A quiet, spine-aching episode about shared secrets and the pages that rewrite themselves. #HemlockFalls #NightLibrarian #TheBookThatKnew #Ellen #ReadMeLast #PublicLibraryHorror #MissouriHorror #1987 #August #SaturdayNight #ReferenceShelf #NoAuthor #BookWithoutCover #SelfWritingStory #LunaCousin #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #TheLanternAnthology Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"August 1987. A stifling Saturday night in Hemlock Falls, Missouri. Luna’s cousin Ellen, the night librarian at the Hemlock Falls Public Library, is closin…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":428,"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-librarian-found-the-last-book-on-the-shelf-at-the-hemlock-falls-public-library/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-librarian-found-the-last-book-on-the-shelf-at-the-hemlock-falls-public-library.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}