The Lantern Library

The Lantern Library

An audiobook podcast, The Lantern Library brings you those stories you wish you'd read in an old wood library lit by flickering lights. I'm G. G. E. Tinsmuir, and I write and narrate short stories that bring together horror, mystery, drama, and, at times, heart-warming tones. Get your headphones on and join me for a thrilling, intriguing, and entertaining experience!

Episodes

November 5, 2021 50 mins

Please note: due to the podcast upload limits on my plan, I'm unable to post another episode next week. Stay tuned for the week after for the next volume of the Rusher Series!

I’m a food delivery driver. I don’t always follow the delivery instructions.

Episode warnings: this story contains mentions of child and domestic abuse.

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The Male Ward 7 of Callan Park Mental Hospital was known as “notorious”. Searching for why, I found out next to nothing. At least, not until I started digging into the patient notes of those who’d been inmates there.

Note: the language used in this story is intended to depict the views and language of the past. I do not condone the outdated terms used. 

This story is also very much based on a real place. See story...

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October 22, 2021 13 mins

We were driving. Where to, I had no idea. But I knew what we were running from.

Episode warnings: horror elements

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October 15, 2021 55 mins

I bought my apartment off the plan. I thought there may be catches – teething problems and cheep materials. I didn’t anticipate night knockers.

Episode warnings: horror elements

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If you ever buy your apartment off the plan… Research it well beforehand. Don’t think it’s just dodgy construction you have to worry about.

Episode warnings: horror elements

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In the summer before I left for high school, we unravelled the mystery of the child and the spooky woman on the phone line. To be clear: this is no morality tale.

Episode warnings: rare profanity and horror elements

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When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s, we had a party line telephone. There was one thing that made us avoid it: the spooky woman’s voice on the phone line.

Episode warnings: rare profanity and horror elements

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Some small towns have secrets and gossip. Ours had secrets, gossip, and that spooky woman’s voice on the telephone line. To be clear, this is no morality tale.

Episode warnings: rare profanity and horror elements

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