{"id":24757,"date":"2025-07-31T22:12:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=24757"},"modified":"2025-08-02T22:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T02:23:47","slug":"the-monster-of-lightower-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24757","title":{"rendered":"The Monster of Lightower Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Monster of Lightower Library: A Lamplight Short Story<\/em> (2025) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/Stang_Morgan.php\">Morgan Stang<\/a> (Lamplight Murder Mysteries #1.5)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/The-Monster-of-Lightower-Library.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Monster of Lightower Library\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/The-Monster-of-Lightower-Library.jpg?w=316&amp;ssl=1 316w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/The-Monster-of-Lightower-Library.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Evie, Isabeau and Penny need more information about the monster they are hunting, so they head to the library, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the library seems to have it&#8217;s own unexpected monster.<\/p>\n<p>These stories really are fun.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They make monster anatomy a first year course for a reason, along with medical training that focuses on traumatic wounds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDo you always destroy all locations of your hunts, Izzie?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Isabeau gave a little shrug. <\/p>\n<p>She thought on the question for a bit, and was only slightly ashamed to realize that yes, most environments she hunted in ended up generally destroyed, more or less. \u201cNo, not always.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Characters<\/strong>: Evie Turnstall, Huntress Isabeau Agarwal, Penny, Wilber, Parvati Bhatia, William Diederich, Lucy Staunton<\/p>\n<p>Cover design by: Etheric Design<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monster of Lightower Library: A Lamplight Short Story (2025) Morgan Stang (Lamplight Murder Mysteries #1.5) Evie, Isabeau and Penny need more information about the monster they are hunting, so they head to the library, of course. Unfortunately, the library seems to have it&#8217;s own unexpected monster. These stories really are fun. They make monster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,292,2,204,196,148,28],"tags":[717,718],"class_list":["post-24757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-5-10","category-ebook","category-fantasy","category-good","category-novella","category-queer","category-steam-punk","tag-lamplight-murder-mysteries","tag-morgan-stang"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-6rj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22535,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22535","url_meta":{"origin":24757,"position":0},"title":"Murder at Spindle Manor","author":"Michelle","date":"November 15, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Murder at Spindle Manor (2022) Morgan Stang (Lamplight Murder Mysteries) Isabeau Agarwal is a huntress, and her latest hunt has led her to Spindle Manor, to search out a monster that takes the memory and skins of it victims, replicating them until it finds a new victim. \u201cIs there any\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Murder at Spindle Manor","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Murder-at-Spindle-Manor.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Murder-at-Spindle-Manor.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Murder-at-Spindle-Manor.webp?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":22608,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22608","url_meta":{"origin":24757,"position":1},"title":"Murder on the Lamplight Express","author":"Michelle","date":"December 17, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Murder on the Lamplight Express (2023) Morgan Stang (The Lamplight Murder Mysteries) Like the previous book, this story is delightful. 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Sellswords? You see, a murder-hobo is a man or woman who travels all about the land. They have no\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;9\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"9\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/9-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Bookshop and the Barbarian","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/The-Bookshop-and-the-Barbarian.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/The-Bookshop-and-the-Barbarian.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/The-Bookshop-and-the-Barbarian.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":12670,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/12670","url_meta":{"origin":24757,"position":4},"title":"Checking Out Love","author":"Michelle","date":"March 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Checking Out Love (2015) R. Cooper Jeremy Song is a graduate student who is not always good at focusing but very good about being exciting. The problem with being one of those people fascinated by everything was that he annoyed those humans around him who didn\u2019t think it was fun\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;7\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"7\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/7-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Checking Out Love","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Checking-Out-Love.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24320,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24320","url_meta":{"origin":24757,"position":5},"title":"Brother Cadfael&#8217;s Penance","author":"Michelle","date":"March 14, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Brother Cadfael's Penance (1994) Ellis Peters (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #20) Set in England in 1145. 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