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. A man spent years building protective cases with his own hands.

He mixed holy water into the wood stain.

He carved prayers into the barriers meant to shield people from

what he believed were genuine dark forces. On July 13, 2025, Dan Rivera was found alone

in a Gettysburg hotel room. He was 54 years old, and the circumstances of his death

would spark one of the strangest debates the paranormal community had seen in years.

Dan Rivera worked as lead investigator for the New England Society for Psychic Research,

an organization that Ed and Lorraine Warren founded back when paranormal investigation was

still finding its footing in American culture.

The Warrens became household names decades later through the Conjuring

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