It's time to turn off the lights and turn on the dark.

Chilling tales for dark nights. The

The Good evening, listener. You're listening to Chilling Tales for Dark Nights. On tonight's edition, we invite you to leave behind your safe reality and descend with us into the frightening depths of the most terrifying imaginations, with two audio adaptations of frightening fiction about tainted traits and prosecutorial plots.

I'm your host, Steve Taylor, and tonight I'll be your guide as we traverse the dimly lit corridors of your darkest dreams.

Joining us tonight to help bring to life the frightening fiction of Mike Mann and Sarah Jane Huntington.

Our voice talent Steve Gray, Danielle Hewitt, Jonathan West, and Melissa Medina.

Now, get your ticket ready.

Take your seat in our theater of the mines and brace yourself.

It's time to turn off the lights and turn on the dark.

Our first tale this evening is written by Mike Mann and is performed by Steve Gray.

Sins of the Father or history repeating itself.

What causes the evil we do?

Witness the lineage of those who are compelled to indulge in the wicked obsessions from the primal acts that have been set since the creation of the soul.

Now without further ado, I present to you, Inheritance of the devil. John S. Kentrow was born to a young couple residing in the small town of Cessor, Illinois.

Father Richard was a plumber by trade for ten years before the birth of young John. His mother, Miranda, was the

typical stay-at-home spouse as was expected during those early times of the 20th century.

They were part of the middle working class where money was enough to live slightly comfortably,

but nowhere near the life of luxury, and times were usually difficult towards the end of the month.

The couple were high school sweethearts and married right out of school.

Richard graduated and Miranda dropped out after a junior year to pursue a life as a housewife.

After finishing high school, Richard landed a job in his father's plumbing company.

The company was all Richard's father had left to hold on to after his wife's passing from a severe pneumonia case.

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