44 episodes

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups. In each episode, librarian Adam Vorobok reads one fantastical, shiver-inducing tale. If you enjoy sitting around a campfire, listening to a storyteller as the flames leap higher into the darkness and the trees seem to inch a little closer, this podcast is for you. A production of the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library.

Warlock Vorobok Reads Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library

    • Fiction

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups. In each episode, librarian Adam Vorobok reads one fantastical, shiver-inducing tale. If you enjoy sitting around a campfire, listening to a storyteller as the flames leap higher into the darkness and the trees seem to inch a little closer, this podcast is for you. A production of the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library.

    Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"

    Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"

    One of New England's most famous writers comes forth from the void to share a story no-doubt connected to his family's witch-trail roots. Gather round as Warlock Vorobok reads about a Puritan's temptation to stray from good to evil in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown."

    • 41 min
    Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

    Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

    It all started because of bad weather and boredom. A ghost story contest was announced. And the genre of horror was about to change forever. Join Warlock Vorobok as he reads from one of his favorite horror novels—and an all-time classic—Frankenstein.

    • 16 min
    Ann Radcliffe Returns with “The Mysteries of Udolpho”

    Ann Radcliffe Returns with “The Mysteries of Udolpho”

    Brace yourself for gloomy castles, ghostly apparitions, and gruesome corpses! This new season of Warlock Vorobok Reads features scary good short stories, starting with the queen of Gothic literature, Ann Radcliffe. Radcliffe returns from the void to join the podcast after first sharing her supernatural writings with the Library’s resident warlock on the March 2022 episode. This time, Warlock Vorobok shares her 18th century masterpiece, “The Mysteries of Udolpho.”

    • 18 min
    Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto"

    Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto"

    Join Warlock Vorobok as he kicks off a new season of this supernatural podcast with an excerpt from the first Gothic novel, the Castle of Otranto. Written in 1764, this slim novel would be the start of so many nightmares to come.

    • 31 min
    Walter de la Mare

    Walter de la Mare

    Walter is most famous for his lyrical poetry for children, but "the Listeners" still manages to scare this Warlock every time I read it - and it is perfect for a cold winter's evening!
    Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups.

    • 14 min
    Emma Lazarus

    Emma Lazarus

    Did you know the poet that penned the famous words on the Statue of Liberty also wrote poems about haunted places and Will O'the Wisps? Come get scared by the phantasmagoric verses of one America's most important poets.
    Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups.

    • 11 min

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