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.

Stay close as my muse, the medieval demon Gubana,

guides us down into beautiful darkness.

In this episode, before our full-length story,

we have a short shot,

a magic kingdom,

written by Bruce McAllister and narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

But first, a word from our sponsors.

And now, Stephen Rudnickie.

The Magic Kingdom by Bruce McAllister.

When I worked at Disneyland in the summer of 65, it was strange enough even without what I found

in the dumpster.

This was the 60s, and the Magic Kingdom, no matter how many long-haired hippies,

it denied admission to, couldn't escape the decade.

Peter Pan and the Big Bad Wolf were both on acid.

My best friend, a crew-cut engineering major from UCLA, was the kingdom's main hash dealer, though I wasn't a customer,

drug wimp that I was. There were rumors that Disney himself had died, his head taken to the famous

cryogenic tanks in Riverside, and that it was an audio-animatronic duplicate of him that was

acting drunk in his private quarters above

Main Street. A kid trying to sneak into the park by hanging under the monorail was sprayed all over

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