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. A man in Wuhan,

Wuhu, China walked into a police station this month with a problem that would have baffled

marriage counselors since time began.

His wife had paid 500 yen, or about 70 bucks, to an online fortune

teller, and the mystic informed her that her husband was cheating. The wife, apparently operating

under the ancient consumer principle of, I paid for it so it must be true, immediately confronted

her spouse with accusations of hotel visits and liaisons with sex

workers. The husband, who had been laboring under the quaint notion that his actual behavior

mattered more than a stranger's paid predictions, tried explaining that he'd been faithful.

This went about as well as explaining summer vacation to a fish.

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