S14 Ep4: Mr. Hemlock's Helper

The Midnight Library

Scott Philbrook

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Thank you so much for volunteering to help Mr. Hemlock with the necessary gardening chores, Dear Guest! We were amazed at the lightning speed with which you raced to scribble your name on the sign-up sheet! Why, you seemed almost to be in a fever-dream as you drove your pen into the paper with madness, then you wandered away giggling and mumbling to yourself. In any case, we appreciate your overt willingness to lend a hand. And we certainly won't forget your efforts. We doubt that you will forget, either...

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0:00.0	Astonishing Legends Network.
0:04.0	The following is intended for bizarre audiences only.
0:12.0	Welcome to the Midnight Library. High up in the darkened window across from your bed, a soft and lustrous moon
0:46.3	silently claims its space in your room, its glittery shaft of light hanging in mid-air.
0:57.0	Without a single thought of who you are or what the world even is, you intuitively open your eyes,
1:07.0	just to see it there, presenting its radiant microcosm of astral beauty.
1:15.4	How simple it could all be, you think. Muffled in the far distance, the village church bells ring with a tumultuous clatter.
1:48.6	Your heavy eyelids close.
1:52.2	When you reopen them, your brief dream vanishes, and you're solidly awake and aware that you only closed your eyes for a moment as you
2:03.2	sat to rest on one of the scroll-work wooden benches on the grounds of the midnight library.
2:11.9	You were supposed to be at work.
2:14.7	You were supposed to be a lot of things today.
2:18.3	But with the weight of the world, the way that it is, you just couldn't.
2:26.3	Instead, even though it's daytime and the library is closed,
2:33.3	you abandoned everything that was demanded of you
2:37.7	and chose to come here instead.
2:45.9	Beyond the tall wrought iron gate,
2:49.2	the famous and rumored about library, sits looming and out of reach
2:54.8	across the way. The curtains are drawn, the shades are down, and the only sign of life is the swaying
3:05.3	leaves on the nearby trees
3:08.3	and the gentle rustling of the clinging ivy,
3:13.3	making its way upward across the grand structure's haunting face.
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