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Thank you. Welcome to Tales to Terrify. Welcome to Tales to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night.

As longtime listeners of the show know, I'm a zombie fan.

The kind of zombie fan that has gone beyond the mindless consumption of everything zombie

and will critically take apart why a zombie story is a good one or a bad one.

Robert Kirkman's graphic novel The Walking Dead has largely been A-plus work.

The TV show had a couple rough seasons, but is overall a great watch.

Kirkman has a new show based on a graphic novel of the same name.

I have to say that I didn't know the graphic novel was a thing, and so far haven't sought

it out to read it.

The TV show, on the other hand, so far, really good.

It deals with demonic possession and uses the tropes that have hung around since before

the exorcist without causing the audience to roll their eyes as if Legion itself was inside.

I encourage you to give this one a look.

TV horror is in the short supply and good horror shorter still.

Our story for the evening comes from John Everson.

He is the author of more than 100 published short stories and several novels of horror

and dark fantasy.

His first novel, Covenant, won the Bram Stoker Award for a first novel in 2005.

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