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Just click the link in the show description to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night.

Come on into the cabin. We've got one great big story for you this evening, so please. Settle in. You'll be with us for a bit longer than usual. Find something cool to drink

on this Virginia summer evening. I did get around to reading The Troop by Nick Cutter, which is the

pen name of Craig Davidson.

I'll give it two thumbs up.

I've heard some reviewers make some comparison to Lord of the Flies dipped in the horror genre,

and I think that's accurate.

What makes the book good for me is that the characters all feel realistic,

and more importantly, the terrible, terrible things that happened to that

Boy Scout troop are all very much believable. Had I read the story on the BBC or Al Jazeera,

for example, I'd probably have believed it in its entirety. At no point did I have to suspend

my disbelief for the horrible things that transpire in this story.

I'd recommend picking this one up.

So, on to our story.

Tonight, we will be hearing from Tim Wagoner, no stranger to tales to terrify.

We've heard a handful of his stories in the past and have been happy to hear them as well.

Tim Wagoner wrote his first story at the age of five when he created

a comic book version of King Kong versus Godzilla when a stenographer's pad. It took him a few more

years until he began selling professionally, though. Overall, he has published close to 30 novels

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