What exactly lies beyond the treacherous and previously impassable Canadian Glacier?

Robert W. Chambers, today on the Classic Tales Podcast.

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Today's story is by Robert W. Chambers, who is most famous collection of short stories,

the King in Yellow, influenced many writers of weird fiction in his day, including HP Lovecraft.

I've taken the liberty of naming today's story beyond the broken glacier.

It comprises chapters six to eight in his book In Search of the Unknown.

This book contains several stories about strange, fabled and unknown creatures encountered

by a secretary of the Zoological Gardens in Bronx Park, New York.

We heard the first story in this collection a while ago, the Harbor Master,

which inspired the film The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Today's story has some playful humor in it

and also touches on the lost world genre, which I am rather fond of. I hope you enjoy it.

Now for our personal moment. It's kind of official. I don't have school spirit and I figured it

out the hard way. Freshman orientation for my daughter. So we go in there, Freshman orientation,

to find out what high school is all about and we found out. We couldn't even get into the auditorium

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