When police officer Matt Klein returns to the quiet coastal town of Marshport, he hopes

for a fresh start with his family.

But a series of brutal, inexplicable deaths begins to unravel the town.

At the center of it all is an ancient evil bound to a seemingly harmless gift of an antique

advent calendar, a relic, counting down to the night when the light of Christmas goes out.

As the days slip by, strange voices whisper through the walls, people go mad, and reality

itself starts to crack.

The deeper Matt digs, the closer he comes to facing an evil that has been waiting for him for years.

Now with his wife and sons in peril and the final door of the calendar looming, Matt must confront the truth.

Some traditions were never meant to be completed. 24 days. 24 doors. All leading to one unholy Christmas Eve. Advent of Evil, a 24-episode

event on Weird Darkness beginning December 1st,

or get the entire novel at Weirddarkness.com slash advent of evil. I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Dark News.

Three dogs appear bright blue on October 6, 2025, in one of the most contaminated places

on Earth.

The people who feed these animals every week had never seen anything like it.

They've been out there the previous week and everything seemed normal.

Then, seven days later, they come back and find dogs that look like they've been dipped

in paint.

The Dogs of Chernobyl program, run by the Clean Futures Fund, posted videos showing canines

with coats saturated in sky-blue coloring.

These dogs were roaming through the Chernobyl exclusion zone, where radiation levels measure

six times higher than what's considered safe for humans.

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