Caitlin and Alan read “The Dagger in the Desk” by Jonathan Stroud. This short story first appeared as a choose-your-own-adventure style article in The Guardian. We debate what kind of ghost is causing the haunting, and feel guilty about laughing at all the George jokes.

The Dagger in the Desk is free to read or free to listen to.

Fighting Fantasy is a game book series published during the 1980s

Choose Your Own Adventure was a book thing

Lone Wolf was a game book thing

Encyclopedia Brown is a children’s book series thing

Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters is the “secret” base of Marvel’s X-Men.

St Simeon was an ancient saint

Fatphobia is a social stigma thing

Isaac Asimov had some sideburns

Trench knives were notorious weapons from WWI and WWII

Follow Caitlin on Twitter @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.