“THE CARNIVAL OF DESIRES” and More Short Fiction Horror Stories! #WeirdDarkness #ThrillerThursday

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Somewhere deep in the woods, there’s a place that only appears when called — a place that promises everything you desire… but takes more than you ever expected.

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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)

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Disclaimer and Show Open (Coming Up In This Episode)
00:02:18.112 = Wonderland, Part 1
00:17:14.822 = Wonderland, Part 2
00:45:18.219 = Wonderland, Part 3
01:04:50.017 = Eight O’Clock In The Morning
01:18:55.789 = The Room Where The Stars Live
01:31:57.520 = The Trunk
01:58:15.520 = Show Close, Verse, and Final Thought

SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“Wonderland” by Riley Vanderlip: https://www.creepypasta.com/wonderland-2/
“Eight O’Clock in the Morning” by Ray Nelson: (Link no longer available)
“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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Originally aired: November 19, 2020
EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/CarnivalOfDesires

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0:45.0	Danger? We laugh in the face of danger. I'm not worried about it.
0:50.0	Yeah, I've learned for us that you don't worry about things.
0:54.4	Brand new world's most dangerous roads.
0:56.7	Tomorrow at 8 on Dave and UK TV Play.
1:00.1	As heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third-party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself.
1:08.0	Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended for mature audiences only.
1:14.6	Parental discretion is Weird Darkness.
1:28.6	Here you'll find stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained. Coming up in this episode, it's Thriller Thursday.
1:47.0	Back in the Golden Age of Radio, there was a program similar to the outer limits or the twilight zone. It was called
1:54.3	quiet please and a weirdo listener asked if I would ever consider narrating one of the
1:59.6	stories from that radio show. The actual episodes are extremely difficult to listen to nowadays due to the poor quality of the old recordings
2:07.5	but I was able to find a few short stories that were adapted from episodes of the series.
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