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GUEST HOST: JOHN DARNIELLE

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Guest host, singer, songwriter, and author John Darnielle presents favorite works that reflect on life and death and what comes after. He reads Robert Browning’s chilling poem “My Last Duchess,” and also offers up a new song, “Skeleton’s Tooth.” Molly Ringwald performs “No More Loves,” by Javier Marias, in which a ghost learns to read by proxy. Kirsten Vangsness reads Neil Gaiman’s “When We Went to See the End of the World by Dawnie Morningside, Age 11 ¼," in which the child narrator doesn’t like what she finds. The heroine of Robert Aickman’s “Le Miroir,” does like what she sees in an antique-looking glass—but there’s a price to pay. The reader is Kathryn Erbe.

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