Hello, fellow lover of dark matter.

If you've been suffering from a persistent desire for just a little more unpleasantness in your life,

we have the answer. The Nocturnal Transmissions Podcast. It's a celebration of horror and just good old fashioned

storytelling. It was crawling towards him, and in the pale glow of the flashlight, the man

saw a frightful gargoyle face thrust into his own.

It was the passionless death's head skull of a long dead corpse.

Aliens, bullshit.

Oh, come on, Mr. Joint Chiefs, Chairman.

You were just in your bedroom one moment and in the president's bedroom the

next. Who on this backwater planet could have done that? I can see that you have a taste for horror.

The dark and awful secrets of death, the equally dreadful mysteries of life.

The air grew thick, an impatient knocking sounded from multiple directions, running from the base of the abyss beyond the room to 15 feet above.

Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock the light went out.

Nocturnal transmission.

Come get some. Hello and welcome to the Drabblecast, Episode 504.

The Drapelcast is an audio fiction podcast magazine that brings strange stories by strange authors to strange listeners, such as yourself.

I'm your host, Norm Sherman.

What you just heard there was a promo for a fantastic podcast that DC aficionados will

no doubt fall in love with, talking about nocturnal transmissions, great horror fiction, great

production values, great storyteller, as you'll hear today.

Kristen Holland, the show's, well, everything, the guy behind the show, is narrating our story this week, and I think you're going to love it. Definitely go check them out after this week's story, folks. Get you some more Kristen. It's at nocturnal transmissions.com.a.u. All right, before moving on to our story this week. Quick announcement for you all. Voting for the Strangies, formerly Drabblecast People's Choice Awards, is soon to be wrapping up. We want to know what you, our collection of modeled and decaying, disembodied ears think. What's your favorite cover art, narrator, 100-word story, favorite feature story, on and on. Go to drabblecast.org and click on the

Strangies link up there at the top. It's quick. Just click and fill in the bubbles. The winner

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