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

I'm back from a few days in Ohio, thank you, to those who asked.

It's nice to be back in the Shenandoah here in Virginia.

Managed to get a pickling crock from the Rainersville flea market.

Looks like a star pottery piece from Crooksville, Ohio.

I mentioned this because they stamped their pottery with a cobalt blue, pentagram. Now strange, hmm. But let's get on to our fiction for the evening.

Nina Allen was born in Whitechapel, London, and grew up in the Midlands in West Sussex. He studied

Russian literature at the University of Exeter and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

She wrote her first short story at the age of six. Her inspirations include Vladimir Nabikov, Iris Murdoch,

Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Oster, J. G. Ballard, Robert Bolano, M. John Harrison, Shirley Jackson, Kelly Link, and, of course, Christopher Priest, her partner and first reader.

They live and work in the Tawhal Valley area of North Devon.

Her stories have appeared rarely in the British Speculative Fiction Magazine's Interzone,

Black Static and Crime Wave, and have been featured in many anthologies, including Best Horror of the Year, number two, and number six, the year's best science fiction, number 28,

the year's best science fiction and fantasy 2012 and 2013 and Best British Fantasy 2014.

Her story, Angelus, won the Aeon Award in 2007, and her novella Spin won,

the British Science Fiction Association's Award for Best Short Fiction in 2014.

Her novella, The Gateway, was a 2014 finalist in the Shirley Jackson Awards

and the French edition of her story cycle, The Silver Wind, published by Editions Tristram

as complications, won the Grand Prix de Le Imaginaire, Best Translated Work Short Fiction Category in 2014.

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