The final Tumblr turned behind the wall the unmistakable sound of a real-to-real cassette player starting.

I told you! Monteague half screamed. I tried to warn you of the horrors that await behind these walls.

Suo-Pod, episode 717 for August 14, 2020.

The Mad Eyes of the Heron King by Richard Dansky.

This is your guest host, Sorin Narnia, author of the Knife Point Horror Podcast, speaking to you from Falls Church, Virginia, a place of fog-drenched mores, swirling mists, and dense secretive forests.

The author of this week's tale, secretive forests.

The author of this week's tale, Richard E. Dansky, worked for four years as a game developer for White Wolfing, where he was a developer on games such as Wraith the oblivion and Vampire the Dark Ages.

He also worked on the Mind's Eye Theater, Kindred of the East, and Orpheus game lines. He is written, designed, or otherwise contributed to

over 100 role-playing source books. Danski has published four media tie-in novels through White Wolf, including Clan Novel

La Sombra and the trilogy of the Second Age for exalted.

His fiction and narrations have appeared on Sudopod a few times, including our second episode, Good Advice in 2006,

and about two months ago with episode 709, Unhaunted House.

The Mad Eyes of the Heron King originally appeared in the anthology Dark Faith from Apex Publishing in 2010.

Our reader this time around is Chris Stroub.

Chris is a cartoonist, podcaster,

and author of the short story Candle Cove, yeah that Candle Cove, which was adapted for TV as season one of Scifies Channel Zero.

He recently launched the third chapter of his horror adventure comic Brood Hollow on Patreon.

He has narrated four times previously for Sudapod, including episode 590, Emperor All.

And now we have a story for you.

And we promise you. It's true. The Mad Eyes of the Heron King by Richard Dansky, narrated by Chris Straub.

There was a lake or something like one

near Leonard's office,

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