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Today on the CCLaP Podcast, it’s episode 2 of A Podcast Dreadful, the center’s 12-part serial-fiction audiobook anthology taking place every Monday this autumn. Today’s episode includes:

“Steamhouse,” part 2 of 12, by Davis Schneiderman: In which we learn more about the augmented-reality device known as the System that is holding together our heroes’ post-apocalyptic society in the former Chicago suburbs;

“The Gothickers,” part 2 of 12, by Keith McCleary and Sophia G. Starmack: In which our Victorian detective siblings learn more about their new client, and a monkey fight ensues;

“The Sharpened Spears of the Huaorani!,” part 2 of 3, by Jason Riley: In which our young Irish narrator continues having too much to drink at a dinner party held by his new girlfriend’s family;

“Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade,” part 2 of 12, by Karl Wolff: In which our famed alchemist and libertine discovers a supernatural element to his investigation of the murder of a Viennese aristocrat;

and “Bad Penny,” part 2 of 12, by Jacob S. Knabb: In which we learn more about the dark medical experiments behind an unsolved murder in early 20th-century rural West Virginia.