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Today on the CCLaP Podcast, it’s episode 3 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 3 of 12, by Davis Schneiderman: In which yet more is learned about the post-apocalyptic Chicago suburb where our story takes place, as well as the time-manipulating science-fiction machine known as the System holding it together;

“The Gothickers,” part 3 of 12, by Keith McCleary and Sophia G. Starmack: In which a harp lesson is endured, a laboratory is defiled, and our Victorian detective siblings learn more about their new case;

“The Sharpened Spears of the Huaorani!,” part 3 of 3, by Jason Riley: In which we conclude our adventures with our young Irish narrator, as he has too much to drink at a dinner party held by his new girlfriend’s family;

“Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade,” part 3 of 12, by Karl Wolff: In which our famed alchemist and libertine enlists the aid of a Romany friend in his investigation of the murder of a Viennese aristocrat;

and “Bad Penny,” part 3 of 12, by Jacob S. Knabb: In which a young woman does some private snooping into an unsolved murder in early 20th-century rural West Virginia that has captivated her small town.