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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 have one longer tale for you this evening about a team of antiquarians tasked with uncovering the origin of a mysterious artifact. Our story this evening comes to us from Derek Allen Jones.

Derek Allen Jones spends nights working in a warehouse in Kansas and darker nights writing speculative fiction.

His work has appeared in Apex, the Saturday Evening Post, Gamut, and more.

Find it all at derrick allenjones.com.

Children of the Night, join me for Derek Allen Jones's Antiquity, a Tales to Terrify Original. I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm The only assumption we were at all comfortable in making was that it had come out of the sea. Any other statement we

might have made in those early stages would have had its basis solely in speculation. The box

was, even unto itself, an anachronism. The inscription, in a dialect altogether untranslatable,

but appearing to be some early

prototype of Aramaic, had been engraved into bronze, easily three centuries its senior.

The silver of the chain in which the box was wrapped, likely more ornamental than utilitarian,

was, by my estimation, Italian, and crafted in the late

Renaissance. The bands that braced the box were steel, welded and polished so carefully

and skillfully that one might be forgiven for believing them to have been cast in a single

piece. Work of this sort, of course, would have been impossible until at the earliest the last few

decades preceding the turn of this century.

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