Episode 192 - Campfire Tales #10: In Life and Death
Lunatics Radio Hour: The History of Horror

Episode 192 - Campfire Tales #10: In Life and Death

B2Upper-intermediateMay 26, 202616 min
  • Conversation
  • Fiction & stories

This week Abby is joined by Alex Goleman to read two haunting stories about grief and death. Forgiving Amy was written by Mike Macera. Follow @mikemacera on Instagram and check out https://www.scene3.co/films In Life and Death was written by Sam Logan. Visit samloganwrites.com and sluggerfiction.com. Get Lunatics Merch here. Join the discussion on Discord. Check out Abby's book Horror Stories. Available in eBook and paperback. Music by Michaela Papa, Alan Kudan & Jordan Moser. Poster Art by Pilar Keprta @pilar.kep. Support the show

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get into the first story, I do want to, on a personal note, say that the first story we're

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and grief. I found it, when I was reading it, it struck me in a very personal way as,

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Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of the Lunatics Radio Hour podcast. My name is Abby Brinker and I'm sitting here with Alex. Hello. We are back. The Weeknd Update team to give you two more spooky stories today. Before we

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get into the first story, I do want to, on a personal note, say that the first story we're going to read isn't necessarily horror or spooky at all. It does send her around death and grief. I found it, when I was reading it, it struck me in a very personal way as, I don't know, very relatable. I've had some loss in the last few years that felt,

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felt very like adjacent and represented in this story. And so I'm just going to acknowledge that A, it's not not really horror, but B, more importantly, it can be a little bit heavy, maybe depending on where you might be in your grief journey, if that's relevant. So just a kind of like a very mild warning, nothing is graphic about it at all. But it's just a

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