The Advent calendar arrived nine days ago. No sender, no explanation, just 24 numbered doors,

and a carved face with empty eyes that seemed to know exactly who Matthew Klein used to be.

Since then, Marshport has become a graveyard. Three people are dead. A teenage boy has been twisted into a puppet

for murder. A phantom child, wrapped in ash and embers, stalks the shadows, demanding obedience.

And Matthew Klein, the man who ran while his family burned 30 years ago, has been branded with a

wound that will not let him forget.

He tried to destroy the calendar, the ocean spat it back.

He refused to open a door, his youngest son, woke, screaming, wrapped in the coils

of a python that should not exist.

Now a mysterious hooded figure haunts the edges of Matthew's world, a bearded man who

appears at funerals and vanishes into crowds.

Someone who knows the rules of this game, perhaps even someone who wrote them.

Pastor Russell Hart has offered to help, but has made a caveat, don't open the next

door until he's in the room with the calendar to see it for himself.

The The Welcome, Weirdo's.

I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness's Advent of Evil, a holiday horror novel written by Scott Donnelly, based on a concept from Darren Marler.

24 doors. 24 days, 24 secrets waiting in the darkness. Just like an Advent calendar

counting down to Christmas, we'll unlock one chapter each day. But what we find behind these

doors may not be the gift you're expecting.

You can find all available chapters as well as the print version in paperback, hardback, or Kindle

at weirddarkness.com slash advent of evil.

The calendar is waiting.

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