The Midnight Library

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 podc...

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...

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 i...

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...

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. O...

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...

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 Ni...

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...

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...

Greetings, Dear Guests! We have for you this fine evening the opportunity to get to know some...unusual ladies. Okay. Hags. We'd like you to meet and take into your mushy, human heart a variety of horrific hags! We believe you'll find these unique women are often just misunderstood and have been mislabeled by a close-minded society. We also believe you'll find them to be mysterious, unpredictable....

Welcome Back, Spooky Lovelies! Let us embark on a dreary journey to "The Land Down Under" (not that one) to enjoy an evening tale of mysteries, tragedies, and souls that linger long after their demise...wandering the grounds and trundling the winding staircases... of Haunted Australian Lighthouses. This reading features the haunting of South Solitary Island Lighthouse and "the lighthouse of horror...

Welcome, Dear Guest! We hope you're hungry for knowledge about getting others into Heaven by risking your own soul, because tonight, we have for you the complete telling of the life of a professional Sin Eater! Included in the telling are "scapegoats" and "whipping boys," with a dash of Holiday cheer brought to you by our own Eric & Jill, who have given Irma a very unique and befitting gift. N...

How very good of you to visit, dear guest! Do step into the Reading Room and warm your weary bones near the fire. Tonight, we have just the thing to take your mind off all the dreadfulness in the world- a ship, a ghost ship, The Octavius. Lost, then found, then lost again. And argued about to this day...as to its whereabouts. Rest...and hear the tale of its bold captain and doomed crew who dared t...

It's Mr. Darling's birthday! To celebrate (and salivate), tonight's reading will be all about everyone's favorite Cajun werewolf, The Rougarou! If you're ravenous to know just how a French lycanthrope got their claws sunk into the Louisiana swamplands, do we have a fluffy tale to tell you! These fanged beasties are rumored to have influenced a war, and somehow are now in charge of a huge festival...

Ever wanted to leap into the fiery depths of an eternally-burning, monster mouth of Hell? Good! Then stick with us, because tonight, we have just that very thing all heated up and ready to welcome you! You don't see a HellMouth every day, yet you know exactly what one is. Why is that? Ms. Merrick offers you a cavernous inferno of knowledge on the history and nature of the eerily familiar... HellMo...

So, if your granny casts a love spell on your neighbor's donkey, is that folk magic, or witchcraft? Or granny magic? Tonight, your bewitching host will help you sift through all of the hair and fingernail clippings to find out. Magic, for the sake of good, and for the sake of... not-so-good, has been practiced by witches and common folk alike for several thousand years. Sometimes, all you need to...

Welcome, Spooky Lovely! We have a fabulous evening planned for you in Highgate Cemetery! There will be gruesome finds, battling vampire hunters, rattled bones, and wandering ghosts- all shared with you by your rumored witch host! So, breathe deep, the gathering gloom, and pick out your spot in The Reading Room! We're so happy to see you! Special Thanks to Sounds Like an Earful Music Supply for the...

You look peckish, Dear Guest! How about a little something you can sink your teeth into? Teeth, from every kind of animal, including you, have had a special kind of power and lore about them since forever! Tonight, Ms. Merrick intends to expose the roots of tooth folklore and witchcraft– witchcraft containing the magical ingredient... TEETH! Join us! We don't bite...all that much... (*Includes a s...

It said that "your fate is in your hands" - Learn how, with Miranda's voice in your ears, in this insightful reading on Palmistry! Hear of this mystical practice, its ancient roots, and how it spread across time. Find out which cultures embraced it, and just who made it into the thriving tool of divination that is to this day. And, how you...can easily pick up the skill! Your parlor awaits. Join u...

The Midnight Library is proud to present for your listening pleasure, Fear Daily, a deeply atmospheric show that lures you into the unknown to unsettle you with the uncanny. Fear Daily takes you into the shadows of the past, unearthing the 1990's most terrifying tales of monsters, madness, and life after death. Join them as they explore the ghost stories and supernatural encounters left on an old...

Whether you can swim or not, Dear Guest, you're still in grave danger of tonight's maelstrom of moist monsters: The Malevolent Mermaids! Your Hell or high water host has 3 waterlogged, brutal beauties to share with you. So put your water wings on and hope for the best! You'll also be pleased to hear that tonight's soaking wet sponsor is The Evil Witches Yacht Club! (glub, glub) **BONUS! Sample of...

Come right in, loosen your scarf, and have a headless cookie from The Hospitality Tray, dear guest! Tonight, your hostess, Miranda Merrick, is beyond thrilled to present for your delight, three fine and famous paintings of Beheadings in Art! And what beautifully dark things they are! There will be two versions of Judith beheading Holofernes and one unforgettable portrayal of Medusa sans head. If y...

Welcome to The Midnight Library, Dear Guest! We hope you notice how freely you can move about...within the cordoned-off areas. Tonight we have something just a little different for you, the story of The Collyer Brothers. If you've never heard of them, you're in for a treat, sort of. If you have heard of them, please don't alarm the others. Without giving away any spoilers, this story offers wealth...

Our reading this evening is issued with a rare "Heartbreak Warning" It tells the story of how one young man's obsession influenced the governing of his country, and gave unchecked power to the courts who worked in partnership with the church in order to ruin the lives of countless innocent people, primarily women, by first accusing them of witchcraft, then capturing and torturing them- and then ul...