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Hey, and welcome to the Spook Fest. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and we're flying solo today.

I should probably stop speaking like this because I'll bet it's getting annoying.

That's right. Welcome to the, one of our most fun traditions are ad-free spooktacular where in which we read two stories. One of our most fun traditions are ad-free spooktacular, in which we read two stories.

One of your choosing and one of mine, and yours is up first by Edward Frederick Benson.

Is that right?

Yeah.

Better known as E.F. to his friends.

Yeah. Did you see where this was published? Should we give a shout out to that? It was published in one of his books. He wrote several books, but this one comes from 1912. And I don't remember the name of the book, Chuck. Thank you. Well, I have it, sir. It was first published in an anthology called The Room in the Tower and Other Stories. That's it.

And this is not The Room in the Tower, so this is and Other Stories.

But it's called Caterpillars.

And at first I thought, by the way, this was going to be, you know, we read stuff in the public domain.

So a lot of these stories are sort of like, you know, the creepy house and the, you know, there's not actually a creature or monster.

It's like it was within me all along.

Sure.

That was the direction of a lot of these stories.

But this one actually has a nice little payoff with some real creep stuff.

Yeah, it is a creepster for sure.

And before we get started, Chuck, I want to tip our hats to Ben,

guest producer Ben. That's right. Who last year just laid a smackdown with his first version of

editing one of our Halloween spooktaculars. And I expect he'll do it again.

Yeah, I agree.

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