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.

There's a yellow-painted cottage in St. Asif, Essex, that most people would pass by without a second thought.

But behind those cheerful walls sits a building that spent

centuries as something far darker than a home. The cage, as it's known, served as a prison

for women accused of witchcraft, a holding cell where they waited before facing trial and

execution in the 1500s.

Amy Wayne and Jared Cutting knew all of this when they bought the property earlier this

year.

They're paranormal investigators who run a YouTube channel called Amy's Crypt with 330,000

subscribers, so they're familiar with haunted locations.

They also knew that paranormal researchers often warn that renovations to supposedly haunted

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