S14 Ep4: Mr. Hemlock's Helper

The Midnight Library is honored to have pod star, Robin Warder, as our guest!  Join us as he travels well beyond the cordoned-off areas, finds a kitten, and attempts to get his little mitties on our sacred volumes.  He risks his life to find the secret of the mystery of Teresita Basa, a ghost who returns from the dead to recruit a coworker to help solve her own murder!  Find Mr. Warder’s fine podcast, The Trail Went Cold on all podcast platforms everywhere!TTWC website: https://www.trailwentcold.com/ Special Thanks to Sounds Like an Earful Music Supply for the amazing music AND sound design.

Accidents will happen. It seems no matter how hard we all try, things just sometimes have a way of getting mixed up. Shoes go on the wrong feet. The right key goes into the wrong lock. And a live person gets buried, even though they're not dead. It happened, Dear Guest, and more than once. Now, please have a seat and enjoy our special blend of Gravedigger's tea... and I'll tell you all about this kind of accident...twice.Single article source for short story read⬇️Quoted article: https://www.lurganancestry.com/mmccall.htm Special Thanks to Sounds Like an Earful Music Supply for the amazing music AND sound design.

Welcome, Dear Guest!   Please take your seat for a stone-cold treat! Tonight, we are Hellbent on sharing the eerie story of Murder Stones. These morbid, mournful monuments are strewn across the United Kingdom and are meant to mark the spot of many a murder! Join us for a triple telling of ghastly bump-offs, and how one murder stone inspired a second...in honor of the murderers! Tonight's sponsor is The League of Lady GravediggersSpecial Thanks to Sounds Like an Earful Music Supply for the amazing music AND sound design.

Welcome Back, Spooky Lovelies! We think there's no better atmosphere to begin our NEW SEASON than a swamp! Or better yet, to have a nice visit with Swamp Witches! First we'll have an array of swamp monsters, then we'll feature glorious Native American Owl Witches, a cursing Voodoo Swamp Witch, and a Swamp-dwelling Witch who transformed herself into a tree! Our reading tonight is proudly sponsored by Grimm's Grocer's Moonlight Madness Sale. Grab your waders and join us...if you dare...Special Thanks to Sounds Like an Earful Music Supply for the amazing music AND sound design.

Join us tonight while an exclusive, private discussion between Miranda and Mr. Darling takes place! It seems a bit of Hellish mail has arrived bearing the most demonic news! A new member of The Midnight Library staff is arriving. Immediately! Are you ready?Special thank you to Mr. Darling.

Let us visit the long dead. Let us travel beneath the bustling streets where they dwell. We believe the 16th-century Capuchin Monks had the right idea! Don't bury your dead and forget them. Place them in tunnels and dress them up in their best duds, then invite everyone to visit them, forever! Tonight, we return to our stomping grounds: a beautifully dreary catacomb with 8,000 dead to gaze upon. One... is rumored to open and close her eyes. Join us below!Special Thanks to Sounds Like an Earful Music Supply for the amazing music AND sound design.

Curses! Well, cursed belongings is our topic in The Reading Room tonight! A pretty silver vase that killed the bride it was gifted to. An ancient female figurine that's rumored to have been deadly since forever...and some bedazzlingly dangerous jewels, The Dubious Delhi Purple Sapphire and The Hopeless Hope Diamond. Please find your favorite, totally not cursed spot!Special Thanks to Sounds Like an Earful Music Supply for the amazing music AND sound design.

We have for you this evening a deluge of divine underwater divas! Mermaids are some of folklore and fantasy's most magical creatures, and for centuries, artists have been obsessed with bringing them to life on canvas. Our three, briny, beautiful paintings are: Ulysses and the Sirens, by Herbert James Draper. Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom, by Ilya Repin. And Contemplation or Promise, by Victor Nizovtsev. Don't forget your snorkel!Special Thanks to Sounds Like an Earful Music Supply for the amazing music AND sound design.a

Thank you so much for volunteering to help Mr. Hemlock with the necessary gardening chores, Dear Guest! We were amazed at the lightning speed with which you raced to scribble your name on the sign-up sheet! Why, you seemed almost to be in a fever-dream as you drove your pen into the paper with madness, then you wandered away giggling and mumbling to yourself. In any case, we appreciate your overt willingness to lend a hand. And we certainly won't forget your efforts. We doubt that you will forget, either...Special Thanks to Sounds Like an Earful Music Supply for the amazing music AND sound design.

Calling all ghouls! If you are a fan of all things grim and ghastly, tonight's reading is for YOU! This is the story of Carl Tanzler, "Count von Cosel," who fell so deeply in love with a young woman he saw in his visions, that he wouldn't let the fact that she was dead stand in the way of their romance. Obsession, tragedy, grave-robbing, secrecy, necromancy, and discovery—tonight's reading has it all. Join us! (Sponsored by The League of Lady Gravediggers)Special Thanks to Sounds Like an Earful Music Supply for the amazing music AND sound design.