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. A main man allegedly squeezed through a bathroom window, carefully unwrapped all of a family's

Christmas gifts a full month early, then fell asleep on their couch, and when confronted,

couldn't explain why.

I'm Darren Marler, and this is weird dark news. Some crimes make you fear for humanity, others make you fear for humanity's sanity. And then there's this one, which makes you wonder

if humanity has finally achieved some kind of absurdist performance art that future generations

will struggle

to interpret.

On the morning of Sunday, November 23, 2025, a resident of a State Street apartment in Bangor,

Maine woke up to discover something unusual.

There was a stranger sleeping on their couch.

The stranger had not only let himself in uninvited, he had apparently spent part of his

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