{"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 Waitress Found the Last Table Set at the Oasis Diner","slug":"the-night-the-waitress-found-the-last-table-set-at-the-oasis-diner","published_at":"2026-07-18T15:56:18+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-lantern-anthology-fexingo-horror-7868468/the-night-the-waitress-found-the-last-table-set-at-the-oasis-diner","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-lantern-anthology-fexingo-horror-7868468","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/the-lantern-anthology/episode-0075.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/the-lantern-anthology/episode-0075.mp3","summary":"It was the slowest hour of the graveyard shift at the Oasis Diner on the edge of Salton, California—3:47 AM, according to the clock above the pie case. The waitress, a woman named Cora who had worked that shift for eleven years, noticed a booth in the back corner that she had not set. The table was laid for one: a water glass, a coffee cup turned right-side up, a single paper napkin folded into a triangle. She knew every regular, every trucker on rotation, every deputy who stopped in for coffee on his rounds. She had not placed those items. The kitchen was empty, the parking lot was empty, and the heat lamps glowed on a tray of untouched hash browns. Cora stood behind the counter for a long time, watching that booth. She told herself she would not look away. But she did—once, to wipe down the counter—and when she looked back, the coffee cup had steam rising from it. This episode is a story about the things that arrive in the spaces we refuse to watch, and what happens when a woman who has spent her whole life being unseen finally sees something she cannot explain. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #TheLanternAnthology #OasisDiner #SaltonCalifornia #GraveyardShift #Waitress #Loneliness #Unseen #EmptyBooth #CoffeeCup #Steam #Route9 #Desert #NightShift #AtmosphericHorror #SlowBurn #Luna Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"It was the slowest hour of the graveyard shift at the Oasis Diner on the edge of Salton, California—3:47 AM, according to the clock above the pie case. Th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":484,"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-waitress-found-the-last-table-set-at-the-oasis-diner/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-waitress-found-the-last-table-set-at-the-oasis-diner.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}