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.

Okay. A 32-year-old Japanese woman just held a wedding ceremony, complete with vows, rings, and guests, to marry an AI character she created on Chat G-PT, proving that everything

I warned you about last week is already happening.

I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Dark News.

Last week I talked about the rise of AI companions and the documented harms of people

forming romantic relationships with chatbots.

I covered the tragic deaths of teenagers who became emotionally entangled with AI.

The research, showing how these digital relationships actually increase loneliness rather than

relieve it, and the poll data, revealing that 83% of Gen Z believe they could develop meaningful

relationships with AI partners.

I talked about the woman in 2003, who announced on Facebook that she had married her

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