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.

In news that will disappoint literally dozens of people who have been planning their upcoming

nuptials with ChatGPT, Ohio Representative Thaddeus Claggett has introduced

House Bill 469, which would officially ban humans from marrying artificial intelligence

systems.

Yes, this is real.

No, I'm not making this up.

Yes, someone actually had to write this bill.

No, I don't know what happened in Representative Claggett's life that led to this moment.

The proposed legislation would classify AI systems as non-sentient entities, which is apparently

Ohio's polite way of saying, not real, no matter how many late-night conversations you've

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