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. In Overspill, a neighborhood in Eppworth, just outside Zimbabwe's capital city of Harare,

the note of family members go to bed each night, not knowing if they'll wake up the next morning.

They don't know if their marriages will survive another week.

They don't know if invisible hands will touch them while they sleep. For 25 years, they've

watched their family shrink from 12 siblings to 7. Their children grow up fatherless or

motherless, and their community whispered that their homestead is cursed. I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Dark News.

The Noda family's troubles traced back to 2000 when the family patriarch, Securu Fracian

Noda died.

His wife, Mubuyumina-Pengetti Nodaoda followed him 19 years later in 2019.

The couple had originally come from Boma district in Malawi, crossing the border into

Zimbabwe to build a new life.

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