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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.

We've got another edition of our Patreon author interview series headed your way this weekend.

This time around, Seth chats with regular contributor to the show Derek Alan Jones.

Visit patreon.com slash tales to terrify to learn more about Derek, his process, and the darkness that drives him.

For tonight, though, we have one classic tale, which comes to us from E.F. Benson.

Edward Frederick Benson was a British author who moved effortlessly between satire and the supernatural.

Benson's fascination with the macabre was nurtured during his time at Cambridge when he encountered the ghost story master, M.R. James.

This encounter kindled his obsession with the uncanny and chilling tales.

His tales continued to haunt and captivate, a lasting testament to his abiding

fascination with horror. Children of the Night, join me for E. F. Benson's How Fear Departed

the Long Gallery, first published in the Windsor magazine, December 1911.

The Winser Magazine, December 1911. I'm going to be

I'm going to

I'm going to Church Peverell is a house so beset and frequented by spectres, both visible and audible,

that none of the family which shelters under its

acre and a half of green copper roofs take physical phenomena with any seriousness.

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