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George Norrie with you, Varla Ventura, back with us, noted author, traveler, botanist, lover of the strange.

She has written several books on bizarre and freaky things

from the history of the paranormal parlor games to plants that smell like corpses.

She's a committed supernaturalist, folklorist, and seeker of those shadowy things

that scrape at your window in the night. Barlow, welcome back. How are you?

Ah, thank you, George. A pleasure to be here. I'm doing well, all things considered.

And Merry Christmas to you. Thank you. Yes. Happy holidays. It's suddenly upon us.

How did your book Mark Twain's Ouija mystery do?

That's doing well.

That's part of the Shadow Zine series.

And interestingly, Jeff just put out one about Christmas ghost stories.

He's got three really creepy Christmas ghost stories, and I have mine

set aside to read on Christmas Eve, as is the, you know, Victorian tradition.

Well, you make sure you're listening to our show that night, too, okay? But of course.

Call in that night. Love to hear some of your ghost stories again.

Oh, that's lovely.

That's a great idea.

We'll try to get Tom to give you a call back on that.

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