Hall of Mirrors, Tales of Horror and the grotesque, written and performed for

podcast by Mike Bennett. This podcast is intended for an adult audience. Hello listeners and welcome back to the Hall of Mirrors after our little hiatus. You know, I've missed you. This place gets awfully lonely

when no one comes to call, just me, the darkness, and the screams of the damned that sometimes spill from

the rippling glass as I pass by on my lonesome.

It's the characters imprisoned inside, you see,

endlessly living out there, strange or horrible fates.

Oh, for some, the fate is merely a walk on the weird side,

but for others, like the gentleman we are about to meet today, the Hall of Mirrors is indeed a place of horror.

Yes, that's right, listeners.

I promised you a horror and a horror you shall have.

Here, can you feel the chill coming from the glass of this the fourth mirror in the

collection? No. Come closer. See the frost on the glass, and see now as it begins to thaw with your nearness.

Hmm, it likes you.

Now, see the glass too begins to melt,

swirling slowly round and around.

And now it settles, a window, a portal to another world, and a wet one at that. But we're not in the rain. We're simply looking out at it from the window of a small

office. Hey, is that your reflection?

Hmm, nice rug.

Oh, no, it's not you.

It's Charles.

And that fellow at the desk there with the beard the one doing the talking

That's Conrad

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