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Just click the link in the show description to Terrify. Good evening, Children of the Night. I am Stephen Kilpatrick, your host for the evening.

Step out of this Virginia evening's heat and into the cool, dark of the cabin. I want to make sure

that you're comfortable, because we've got a great big story for you tonight. As you heard from last

week, we're asking you to contribute on the show's Facebook page, your suggestions

for classic horror short stories that we might get out to some narrators as we approach

episode 200. We've received seven suggestions so far with Miss Gentile by Charles Beaumont

as suggested by listener Mike Dominic in the lead currently. Well, it's not really a competition.

We'll be doing as many of these as we can find voices for, but Miss Gentile is the most popular so

far. So tonight, we're going to be hearing from Algernon Blackwood. I remember that Larry had tasked

me with reading Blackwood's The Willows, which was a very lengthy read,

that we broke up into a few episodes. I also remember that he had returned the recording

to me more than once because I had inconsistently mispronounced the name of the Danube River,

which is the setting of the entire story. This story won't be served up to you in chunks, but in one big helping.

The last time we asked all of you listening if we should break stories up into episodes or all at once,

and overwhelmingly the answer was, all in one good go.

So, this one is about two hours long, so get settled and get a snack.

Alderman Blackwood was born on March 14th of 1869 and passed on at the age of 82 and December 10th, 1951.

During that time, he made his living as a writer and a broadcaster.

He wrote 14 novels, a few plays, and even some children's books.

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