“THE CARNIVAL OF DESIRES” and 3 More Short Fiction Horror Stories! #WeirdDarkness #ThrillerThursday
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 132 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: It’s #Thriller Thursday! “The Room Where The Stars Live” *** “The Trunk” *** “Eight O’Clock In The Morning” *** Wonderland (Carnival of Desires)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
“Wonderland” by Riley Vanderlip: https://www.creepypasta.com/wonderland-2/
“Eight O’Clock in the Morning” by Ray Nelson: https://tinyurl.com/y2fm3d86
“The Room Where The Stars Live” from Quiet Please: https://tinyurl.com/y6nedu5t
“The Trunk” by J.M. Cennamo: https://tinyurl.com/yyt88343
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Superkins here, and I've teamed up once again with the LEGO Group to bring you series |
| 0:04.4 | two of my podcast at your leisure. Join me as I chat to chart toppers, catch up with |
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| 0:15.4 | being famous. Expect more excellent guests, sharing more unusual hobbies. So why not join us |
| 0:22.9 | on the journey? Listen to the at-your-leisure podcast with me, Superkins, on Global Player. |
| 0:30.2 | You sat there doing all this financial mumbling and working out, is everything gonna be okay? |
| 0:35.1 | It is so rewarding when you get to that point where the business has finally turned around. |
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| 0:45.5 | and advice from real experts. Sage, helping business flow. Stories and content and weird |
| 0:52.1 | darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended for mature audiences only. |
| 0:56.7 | parental discretion is strongly advised. |
| 1:07.9 | Welcome Weirdos, I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of |
| 1:13.5 | the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, strange and bizarre, prime, conspiracy, mysterious, |
| 1:22.2 | macabre, unsolved and unexplained. Coming up in this episode, it's The Riller Thursday. |
| 1:31.0 | Back in the golden age of radio, there was a program similar to the outer limits or the twilight |
| 1:36.1 | zone. It was called Quiet Please. An weirdo listener asked if I'd ever considered narrating one of |
| 1:42.0 | the stories from that radio show. The actual episodes are extremely difficult to listen to nowadays |
| 1:47.9 | because of the poor quality of the old recordings, but I was able to find a few short stories |
| 1:53.5 | that were adapted from episodes of the series. Tonight I'll be sharing the story from Quiet Please, |
| 1:58.8 | called The Room Where The Stars Live. Later, a story from the creepypasta.com website. |
| 2:06.5 | One of their readers, J.M. Sonamo, submitted a story that got some great ratings, so I'm going to share |
| 2:12.2 | it with you. It's called The Trunk. A Weirdo Family member suggested another story for this episode, |
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