The Midnight Library

It’s the 50th Reading Celebration, Dear Guests!!  Brought to you LIVE (relatively) from The Broom & Fang Pub!  Give the bouncer the password, step inside, jump over the snakepit and join us in a cozy corner as Miranda Merrick, Mr. Darling, Irma, and The Lormen spend a daring evening of delightful storytelling, unique cuisine, swanky music, and some questionable happenings for which there will be no answers.  We believe there’s even a chance you’ll survive and perhaps even remember this nite out for a long time. Maybe.

Special Thanks to Sounds Like an Earful Music Supply for the amazing music AND sound design during this episode.

Welcome to The Reading Room, Dear Guest!  Why doesn’t anyone want to sit beside Mr. Cutlass, our totally just-for-show, prop guillotine??  Oh well.  Please find a comfy spot and pull the blankets up tight around your chilly neck because tonight our heart-stopping topic is all about BEHEADINGS!  When did they start?  How were they improved?  Why were they popular?  Who tried to speak after they were beheaded?  And why are they a hot topic in more ways than one in The Midnight Library?  Head right this way!

Special Thanks to Sounds Like an Earful Music Supply for the amazing music AND sound design during this episode.

What if... someone thoughtfully awoke an angry, vicious spirit from its cozy slumber… and it was waiting to meet YOU?  Well then, perhaps you’d better hurry along to The Reading Room to mingle with George “Bloody” Mackenzie fresh from his Black Mausoleum in Greyfriars Kirkyard!  It’s not all terror, though. There’s also fire, an explosion, plague pits, Harry Potter connections, and one Good Boy! (No, not Mr. Darling) Come, Dear Guest, and tiptoe through the tombstones with us!

Special Thanks to Sounds Like an Earful Music Supply for the amazing music AND sound design during this episode.

Step right this way, Dear Guest!  A magical feast for the ears has been prepared for you this evening.  We want to tempt you with magic mushrooms-not like that.  Well...maybe. Tonight we delve into the earthy and mysterious world of fabulous fungi.  Learn to tell tasty from toxic...hopefully, as Ms. Merrick has collected a fine selection of mushroom lore and toadstool tales for you to devour!  Well of course they’re on The Hospitality Tray, Silly!

Special Thanks to Sounds Like an Earful Music Supply for the amazing music AND sound design during this episode.

The guests are all settled and filled with dread, while Visions of Vampires dance in their heads!  Join us tonight as your haunting host, Miranda Merrick leads you astray to meet some “blood enthusiasts” of olden times.  We’ll find some of the first famous vampires and hear how they were stopped, then we’ll weigh up our options for joining a nice, friendly blood-drinking cult.  Such a full evening… Our cup runneth over.  Welcome, Dear Guest!

Special Thanks to Sounds Like an Earful Music Supply for the amazing music AND sound design during this episode.

You know the legend he created.  Tonight, our reading will tell you just how eerily all of the spooky pieces of Bram Stoker’s life fell precisely into place so that he could give the world--DRACULA!  Stoker had the right illness, the right grim mother, friends, books, and even the right nightmare that contributed to the making of the perfect literary monster, Count Dracula. So, find your favorite spot in The Reading Room and cuddle up with a wolf pup because we are Stoked for Stoker!

Special Thanks to Sounds Like an Earful Music Supply for the amazing music AND sound design during this episode.

Welcome back, Dear Guests, to The Midnight Library. Tonight, your host, Miranda, will introduce you to The Famous Fox Sisters! Three wily women who took The Modern Spiritualist Movement by storm and left many a ghost in their wake. From a haunted old farmhouse, mysterious coded raps from another realm tapped out messages that put the women in the spotlight to perform their supernatural craft, driving throngs of people to pay them to contact their dearly departed loved ones. Please take your seat and meet: The Foxy Fox Sisters

Special Thanks to Sounds Like an Earful Music Supply for the amazing music AND sound design during this episode.

Your journey to reach The Midnight Library is narrated in ASMR fashion by your humble host: Miranda Merrick.  Who will you meet on your walk?   
You’ve gotten in your car and driven to the edge of the village.  The main road has narrowed.  Forests, pastureland, and old farms dot the dimming distance.  Whatever life has had to offer you, whatever reality has forced you to of late- You’re looking for something different; a mood, a setting,... the warmth and chill ...of beings of a different nature.  You turn onto a nameless, lonely old road, marked only by a small, wooden sign that illuminates when your headlights catch it.  Its deeply carved script reads: THIS WAY TO THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY

Headphones are recommended for the best listening experience.

Well, Dear Guest, how do you feel about getting a little dirty? (Not like that!)  Join us tonight! - as we slip into the slime with Bog Bodies!!  How old are they?  How did they all get into the bogs in the first place?  What kind of fashion sense did they have?  What kind of tea do they prefer?  Visit The Reading Room and hear your Host, Miranda Merrick, get down and dirty with: A Bevy of Bog Bodies (No bog bodies will be harmed, molested, or bathed during this reading...probably.) 

Special Thanks to Sounds Like an Earful Music Supply for the amazing music AND sound design during this episode.

So, you’ve got a little demon infestation.  Who ya gonna call?  More demons, of course!  Carefully make your way to The Reading Room, Dear Guests, as tonight Ms. Merrick holds court in the case of: DEMON Vs. DEMON.  Oh and there’s cake! Join us for tonight’s reading as we go down, down, down where the demons dwell! Isn’t that a Hell of a thing?