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. I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Dark News.

Bronze Zahetner sat at his desk in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna when a package

arrived.

As the cathedral's archivist, he dealt with all sorts of deliveries, but opening

this one gave him a shock he wasn't prepared for. Inside the parcel, carefully wrapped,

was a human skull. Next to it lay a handwritten letter from a man in Northern Germany, confessing

to something he'd done roughly 60 years earlier when he was just a young tourist.

The letter explained everything.

The parcel had arrived suddenly on his desk, large and tied up, with no specific sender

listed.

During a guided tour of the cathedral's catacombs, the man had stolen the skull, and now,

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