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Just click the link in the show description to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night. Come on into our cabin. All of you, please. We've got something to talk about this evening just before our fiction. You have no doubt heard the big news. We've been nominated for a Hugo Award, and unless you've somehow managed to avoid being on the District of Wonder's mailing list, you've read our mutual denouncement of being on the rabid puppy shortlist. If not, Link is in the show notes.

Tales to Terrify has never been overly concerned with awards. When I was working with Larry,

when I'd bring up the topic of upcoming award shows, he generally seemed uninterested in

doing anything beyond the work

we were already doing. And I think I understand that. We show up, do the work we've volunteered

ourselves to do, and hopefully produce a show that our listeners enjoy. If it landed us an award,

all the better. When we got the nomination, the district all seemed ecstatic, and when we found out

being on the rabid puppy's slate, that soured. When we discussed the situation, I feel I constituted

most of the voice to ask for our name to be retracted from the award show. We didn't do this for the

laurels, but for the love of the genre. Why be in the middle of this?

I have to say, I'm glad that I was in that minority, and I listened to the reason of wiser heads in the district. I'll tell you the reasons why. The Hugos may not be important to me,

but they are important to so many who enjoy science fiction, fantasy, and our flavor of the

genre's horror.

The graphic used by the rabid puppies has the slogan, making the Hugo's great again,

and that's not true. That slogan suggests a creative energy, and there is only destruction

in their efforts as evidenced by our inclusion, among other authors, projects, and artists

who have no alignment with the ideals that are presented here.

It's an effort to poison the well. Furthermore, that single largest reason that I'm happy to stick in this is, well, you.

Tales of Terrifies listeners have circled the wagons and shown us an overwhelming amount of love

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