TWL 1020: "Close Your Mouths and Clench Eyes Tight", by Pippa Bailey
The Wicked Library
9th Story Studios LLC
4.6 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
It's the Midnight Mayhem Camp-out and everyone is sharing their scariest stories. A Haitian man shares a very personal and terrifying tale about when he was a boy and came face-to-face with majik, voodoo, and the Gunny Sack Man in a tale he calls "Haitian Graffiti and Tonton Macoute".
Told by: Guy Fortt
Custom Score: Nico Vettese
Voice of the Librarian: Nelson Pyles | Artwork: Jeanette Andromeda | Host / Producer / Showrunner: Daniel Foytik | Executive Producers: Cynthia Lowman, Nelson Pyles, Nico Vettese, Scarlett R. Algee Lead Editor: Scarlett R. Algee
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 9th Story Studios, giving story a voice. |
| 0:12.2 | You're listening to the Wicked Library. |
| 0:34.7 | Hello. Hello. My name is Daniel Morden. I'm a storyteller from Wales in the UK. |
| 0:40.2 | For 30 years, I've made my living telling myths, legends, fairy tales and folk tales. |
| 0:47.0 | Now during this crazy year, stories I read or heard many years ago have wormed their way back into my memory, |
| 0:50.6 | like a snatcher melody I couldn't place. |
| 0:53.9 | It was as if they were whispering, listen. |
| 0:57.5 | I can help. |
| 0:59.5 | So when I tracked down the stories, |
| 1:01.9 | they seem to have something to say |
| 1:03.8 | about the pandemic and the way our lives have changed. |
| 1:06.8 | So I've told these stories in a podcast. |
| 1:10.0 | Every episode consists of just one story. |
| 1:12.9 | It goes out weekly on Sundays, and if you're interested, you can give it a try at |
| 1:17.7 | www. www.org slash podcast. |
| 1:25.6 | Thanks for your time. |
| 1:30.3 | Hello and welcome to episode number 1020 of the Wicked Library. I'm Daniel Foytech and I thank |
| 1:36.1 | you for listening. Today is our season 10 finale and we're already hard at work on season |
| 1:41.8 | 11 due out later this spring. |
| 1:45.5 | Don't worry, though. In addition to more episodes of the private collector, |
| 1:48.8 | we'll be doing a little something we're calling the Darkness in Between, |
| 1:53.1 | featuring at least one short story told by me each month, |
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