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The green ghost of the Phantom Fiddler still haunts the Welsh Mountains. Every month, as the pale, silver crescent of a new moon, sheds its spectral rays on the spur of these famous rolling hills in southwestern Berks County, and the rustling wind strikes chords of discontent among the maples and oaks. The Phantom Fiddler returns. Like the mad shrieking of a lost soul,

his uncanny music rises from a dilapidated stone pile that once was a homestead,

and woe betide the luckless person who disturbs the fandom fiddler

while his bony fingers are twitching on his violin.

They're going to be a slight different. We talked to see him. Welcome. Welcome to Strange Familiar.

Octavians here, everybody.

Hello.

What are you doing here?

I've punished you and made you only on patron shows.

And here you are on the main show.

I just, I find a way.

I banned you. I banished you to

only pay. Now, that wasn't on purpose, but at some point you asked me, like, am I only on patron shows?

I was fine with it. It just worked out that way. Welcome to Strange Familiar, Octavian.

Thank you. The main show. Yes. You've been on the main show. I've been promoted. You've been on the main show plenty of now.

Last week I mentioned that I was doing a book signing in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. The date's been

changed on that. Saturday, April 26th, I will be doing a book signing at the House of Oddities,

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