Hold the kaleidoscope to your eye. Peer inside. One twist changes everything.

A woman awakens in a grotesque, human-sized arcade game. A mysterious cigar box purchased

at a farmer's market releases an ancient gin who demands a replacement prisoner.

An elderly woman possesses the terrifying power to inflict pain through handmade dolls.

An exclusive restaurant's sinister secret menu includes murder-for-hire and harvested organs. With each turn through these

20 tales, Reddit No Sleep favorite AP Royal reshapes reality, creating dazzling patterns of horror

that entrance as they terrify. The kaleidoscope, 20 terrifying tales of horror and the supernatural by AP Royal, narrated

by Darren Marler. You're a free sample on the audiobooks page at weirddarkness.com.

Welcome, weirdos. I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness.

Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange

and bizarre, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved, and unexplained.

You can already hear it sounds a little different, because this is a fireside frights episode.

On these episodes, and I know I haven't done one in a very long time, so many of you probably

are not even aware of what I do with these, well, on a fireside fried episode, I strip away all the music, all the sound effects, any

fancy audio production that I sometimes do in my regular episodes.

Here on a fireside fried episode is just you, me, this campfire, and the stories that listeners like you send in.

These are all stories from Weird Darkness listeners.

If you have a story that you'd like to send in, I'd love to see it.

You can do that by visiting WeirdDarkness.com, and under the Contact Social social tab you'll see something to click on that

says tell your story or if you just want to type it into your web browser it's weirddarkness

dot com slash submit because you are submitting a story so it's weirddarkness.com slash submit

and although i do take true and fiction

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