It's time to turn off the lights and turn on the dark.

Chilling tales for dark nights. The

The Good evening, listener.

You're listening to Chilling Tales for Dark Nights.

On tonight's edition, we invite you to leave behind your safe reality

and descend with us into the frightening depths of the most terrifying imaginations,

with an audio adaptation of frightening fiction about ethereal events.

I'm your host, Paul J. McSorley, and tonight, in every other Wednesday night, I'll be your guide as we traverse the dimly lit corridors of your darkest dreams.

Joining us tonight to help bring life to the frightening fiction of Kisto Healy is myself, voice talent Paul J. McSorley.

Now, get your ticket ready.

Take your seat in our theater of the minds.

Embrace yourself.

It's time to turn off the lights and turn on the dark.

Our first tale this evening is written by Kisto Healy and is performed by me, Paul J. McSorley. Meet Samson and Olivia, a couple plagued by a very big problem.

Now, without further ado, I present to you, Franklin's Garden.

Samson stared up at the ceiling. He could hear movement in the attic above, scraping

and quiet banging, like the shuffle and

walk of feet.

Originally, the sounds were more subtle, and he thought they had rats, or maybe a bird had

gotten itself trapped up there somehow, but each time he climbed the ladder in search of a

critter, he came up empty-handed.

And each time he returned to the main floor of the

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