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Good evening. I'm storyteller, oldest Jyre.

And hi, your grandfather. From where I'm from, you know, do-bed time stories.

And if that's what you were expecting, you're in the wrong place.

If its terrifying tells you're after, well then, I've got just the thing.

It's comfortable, so will you. Turn off the lights, Mr. Dare.

Your night is about to get a whole lot darker.

Who needs sleep anyway?

The story featured this episode of Scary Stories Told Nidark is by author Eric Dodd

and continues the tale would begin last week with our performance of The Stairs and The Doorway.

Today we pick up where part three of last week's tale, the space between, left off.

Without further ado, I present to you the fourth and final part of Eric Dodd's saga,

entitled The Side Tunnel.

Part one.

I hated that town. Sprawled across the rotting foothills of a dead mountain chain,

the city was a mass of old south racism and corruption,

filled with inhabitants too poor or too sentimental to leave for some place better.

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