13 days of Halloween is a production of I-Heart Radio Blumhouse Television and

grim and mild from Aaron Mankey. Headphones recommended, listener discretion advised. Good morning, my friend.

I trust your rest was adequate.

Ever, uncomplaining, you have no idea how rejuvenating that is to someone in my position.

Ah, fresh air. You know there are weeks at a time when I forget to step out into the world and just breathe it in.

Welcome to Hawthorne Manor's Garden of Forking Pounds. Many architects leave the landscaping of their

structures to the very end. An afterthought, or in some cases leave it to someone else

to design entirely, but not our architect. He planned

his garden quite intricately. The paths are of particular interest to many of our guests. You see right here, the path forks. Which path

would you like to take? The left or the right?

Ah, dealer's choice, eh? We'll take the left. There's a particular plan I'm dying to show you.

You see, this path by design forks in numerous places, and the wanderer is faced with a simple

choice left or right. It becomes, in a sense, a sort of labyrinth of choices, and one that can

reveal much about the wanderer to herself should she choose to pay close

attention. You, for instance, chose to abstain because you are an enigma.

Ah, these flowers, with the indigo petals and delicate curvature,

are achinitum velpistoneim, bred by statesman Timothy Pickering.

Timothy himself had quite a garden in which he would

wile away the hours amongst his plants. The singular thorn, his heart, was a small family of red foxes whom he could not quite

exile and who continually burrowed in his flower beds. And so he did what any self-respecting

gardener would attempted to poison them with a particularly toxic strain of

wolfspade that he'd grown., he only ended up poisoning the family dog.

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