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

Thank you for making a way back to the Shenandoah and to us here in the cabin.

I think I saw a leaf or two changing color already,

so that season change is already starting.

Speaking of changes, I've been keeping you up to date on my thoughts on some of last year's horror novels.

I've taken a break from reading horror novels for a book or two, just to mix it up. I'm about to start Charles J. Sykes'

Fail You. After reading an interview with the author advice, I thought that a book that is critical

of higher education would be interesting, considering that I work for two different schools.

It might be enlightening.

However, on the topic of horror, I recently intended a film festival that showed, by my count, three horror films.

I'll briefly mention each of them this week and the next two.

The first film was a film coming out of Korea called The Whaling,

and that's wailing as in an uncontrollable cry of sadness,

not the kind with boats and harpoons.

The premise is that in a small village in rural Korea,

people start going nuts and killing friends and family.

It has a very lengthy runtime weighing in at two hours and 36 minutes,

and I feel that the film had quite a few scenes that could have benefited from an editor with a generously sharp knife.

However, the movie does have lengthy scenes of magic casting that actually makes a difference in a movie set in

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