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. Most burglars have a plan. Get in. Grab valuables, get out fast. Abib Hussein apparently missed

that particular seminar. I'm Darren Marler, and this is weird dark news.

Across England and Wales, the house gets burgled every 189 seconds.

That's roughly 456 break-ins per day, which sounds horrifying until you realize that means

there are burglars out there so incompetent they bring the average way down.

Most break-ins follow a predictable pattern. This one took a scenic detour through someone's kitchen.

On July 26, 2025, Hussein showed up at a home in Ames Gardens, Welland, Peterborough, armed

with small stones. Not exactly Ocean's Eleven-level planning.

More like Ocean's Eleven if they rated a garden instead of a vault. But the stones did get the job done.

He used them to smash through the back door window. Inside, he grabbed a Samsung mobile phone.

Standard operating procedure. But then he spotted a birthday cake displayed

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