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Thank you. From the blackest corners of your mind, they call, pulling you deep into shadow, twisting your senses, keeping you from sleep.

It's time to face your darkest fears.

This is Tales to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night, and welcome.

This is my first actual chance to welcome you to 2022, myself anyway.

Thanks so much to Seth and Andrew for sitting in the hot seat to kick off this year.

Great to hear from both of you, outside of voicing our dark tales, of course.

Tonight's episode is number 520.

And aside from offering up a host of hair-raising horrors for your ears,

this episode is special for another reason.

Let me do some math.

With one show a week and 52 weeks in a year.

That means tonight marks the start of our 10th year as a podcast.

With our 500th episode festivities still fairly fresh in the rearview,

we've elected not to make such a big deal about this milestone, but it's still a pretty impressive one nonetheless. For now, I'd just like to say thanks for ten terrifying years.

Here's looking forward to ten more. And now, the thing that's brought us all together in the

first place, our fiction.

Our first story tonight comes from Emily Henry Burnham.

Emily Burnham is a creative writer living in Bend, Oregon, but originally from Herfershire, England.

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