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The Strange and Unusual Podcast

Horror Story Bonus: The Waxwork

The Strange and Unusual Podcast

Alyson Horrocks | Morbid Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, History

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Join me for a bonus horror story reading of 'The Waxwork' by A.M. Burrage. In this tale, madness is brought on by the uncanny valley, a concept discussed in Episode 7, Raising the Dead, Part 2.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, my strange and unusual friends.

0:04.4

Though the concluding episode in my Axeman of New Orleans series is nearly complete, I need

0:09.9

a few more days for the final edits, and it will be released later this week.

0:15.1

Until then, I'm releasing another horror story bonus, and since I've made you lovely people

0:20.1

wait longer than I anticipated for the conclusion, the last in the series on the Axeman will

0:26.2

be presented ad-free as a thank you for your patience.

0:30.8

For this horror story bonus, I will be telling the 1931 tale of The Wax Work by A.M.

0:36.4

Brage.

0:37.4

You may recall another A.M. Brage story I told, Smee from Episode 18, A Haunting Winter.

0:44.1

Brage certainly knew how to weave a creepy tale.

0:47.5

The wax work is an eerie tale of what our minds can create when we enter the uncanny

0:53.2

valley, a concept which I discussed in Episode 7, Raising the Dead Part 2.

0:59.7

So without further ado, let's get on with our story.

1:11.4

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1:17.1

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1:23.8

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1:30.0

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1:36.0

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1:39.2

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1:42.7

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1:49.7

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1:56.2

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