“Podcasts, podcasts everywhere, nor any episode about Samuel Taylor Coleridge.”

Suspend your disbelief as CHPL’s resident warlock reads Taylor Coleridge’s chilling poetry in this month’s episode of Warlock Vorobok Reads.

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups.

Paradise Lost was the most famous example of fan fiction until Twilight came along. Catch a glimpse of hell with Warlock Vorobok as he reads some devilish passages from Books One and Two of Paradise Lost.

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups.

Although this author is more known for his carpe-diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," Robert Herrick also included some supernatural and fantastical elements in his poems "The Spell," "Oberon's Feast," "the Hag," and "Another to Bring in the Witch." Tune your senses towards the otherworldly void as Warlock Vorobok returns to read these paranormal poems.

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups.

Spurned love is the subject of many famous Shakespeare works, written in vivid prose and imagery. Another English poet at the time, John Donne expressed the tragedy of heartbreak in a more supernatural manner. With witches and ghosts abounding in spooky sonnets, listen closely as CHPL’s Warlock Vorobok reads two of Donne’s most chilling poems The Apparition and Witchcraft by a Picture.  

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups.

For 12 long years, the monstrous Grendel has plagued Heorot, attacking the Hall all that find themselves inside. Luckily for us, the resident guide to all supernatural things, Warlock Vorobok, is here to tell the epic poem of Beowulf, who is tasked by the King to face Grendel once and for all!

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups. 

Warlock Vorobok returns with a new focus on reading supernatural poetry starting with section from the Ancient Greek poet The Odyssey.

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups.

In the finale episode of the Warlock Vorobok Reads podcast, we come to the reality-crushing conclusion in which two stranded campers have to fend for themselves against something unearthly! Click here to listen to part 2 of "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood.

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups.

In part 2 of 3 of the finale of the Warlock Vorobok Reads podcast, the narrator and his friend realize they are trapped on the island, the willows are closing in, and they begin to suspect each other of sabotage. If you like John Carpenter's "The Thing", then this story is for you! Click here to listen to part 1 of "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood.

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups.

It's the beginning of the end! In this 3-part finale to the Warlock Vorobok Reads podcast, Adam begins to tell his favorite, creepy story of all time: "The Willows' by Algernon Blackwood!

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups.

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups. In this episode, Adam puts a cap on National Poetry Month with an excerpt from 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge!