"Stillborn" + "Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead"
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"Stillborn" + "Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead"

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 15, 202555 min

This episode features "Stillborn" by Shantell Powell (©2025 by Shantell Powell) read by Susan Hanfield, and "Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead" by Sam J Miller (©2025 by Sam J Miller) read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the Nightmare Magazine Story podcast. Enter freely and of your own free will. I am your humble host, Terence Taylor, one very much at home with the children of the night.

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Stay close as my muse, the medieval demon goblah, guides us down into beautiful darkness. In this episode, before our fulling story, we have a poem, Stillborn, written by Chantal Powell and narrated by Susan Hanfield. But first, a word from our sponsors.

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And now, Susan Hanfield. I grew up in rural and remote areas across Canada and have traveled the world, witnessing both willful and incidental destruction of ecosystems, until I became too disabled to continue.

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