Tapes from the dark, dark side, contains descriptions of violence and sexuality.

Oh, the darkness, my friend.

Listener discretion is advised. Welcome back to the Dark Side. This is the 2021 Halloween Patreon special.

We will be reading three works today, starting with The Diary of a Madman, written by a Frenchman named Guy de Moposan.

The story is about a judge, one who develops a most curious obsession.

The story is written in retrospective from the point of view of someone who has come across the judge's private diary after the judge passes away.

Each entry is made on a different day and reflects the judge's dissent into utter depravity,

ending with a most chilling and disturbing revelation.

This is The Diary of a Madman by Guy Demoposso.

Music by Guy de Moposso. He was dead.

He was dead, the head of a high tribunal, the upright magistrate whose irreproachable

life was a proverb in all the courts of France.

Advocates, young councillors, judges had greeted him at the sight of his large, thin, pale face, lighted up by

two sparkling, deep-set eyes, bowing low in token of respect. He had passed his life in

pursuing crime and in protecting the weak. Swindlers and murderers had no more redoubtable enemy, for he seemed

to read the most secret thoughts of their minds. He was dead now at the age of 82, honored by

the homage and followed by the regrets of a whole people.

Soldiers in red trousers had escorted him to the tomb and men in white cravats had spoken words

and shed tears that seemed to be sincere beside his grave.

But here is the strange paper found by the dismayed notary in the desk where he had kept

the records of great criminals.

It was entitled.

...