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.

A new story is translating patterns of brain activity into written descriptions of what you're seeing or imagining.

I'm Darren Marler, and this is weird dark news.

Scientists in Japan have built something that sounds like pure science fiction, except

it's real and working right now.

They've created a system that reads your brain activity and turns it into complete sentences

describing what you are watching or remembering.

Think of it as closed captions for your thoughts.

The system doesn't just spot objects or simple ideas. It writes out full descriptions that

explain what's happening, who's doing what to whom, and how different things relate to each other.

A researcher named Tomyasu Horikawa, who works at a telecommunications company's science

lab in Japan, figured out how to make this work.

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