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

Chilling tales for dark nights. The

The Good evening and welcome to chilling tales for dark nights.

I'm your host this evening, Steve Taylor.

Tonight's story begins with a warning, the kind most people ignore until it's far too

late.

An archivist discovers an impossible journal hidden among forgotten relics, a text that seems

less like a record and more like an invitation.

Its pages speak of vanished worlds, thinning veils, whispered heralds, and a hunger vast

enough to consume reality itself.

And the deeper he reads, the more he begins to understand a terrible truth.

Some knowledge does not illuminate. It summons. Settle in and dim the lights. The show is about to

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Originally appearing on scary stories told in the dark, season 16, episode 18, on January 26th, 2025.

Tonight's tale is performed by Malcolm Blackwood,

the dark and distinguished host of that very podcast,

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