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To Terrify. Good evening, children of the night. I am Stephen Kilpatrick, your host for the night.

Come on in out of this August heat, have a bite to eat, and a cool glass of something.

Tonight will be the second of two episodes featuring narrations by our late host, Mr. Lawrence

Santaro. This is a story that he had chose for himself to narrate.

We'll be leaving our contemporaries to go all the way back to 1835.

Our story will be Young Goodman Brown by none other than Nathaniel Hawthorne.

To be honest, I wasn't very familiar with Nathaniel Hawthorne,

and just because the man's first birthday was over 200 years ago,

doesn't mean we're not going to give him a bit of an introduction.

So I turned to 2014's most popular encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

It remarks early in his article that his grandfather

was the only judge in the Salem Witch Trials, who did not repent from his actions, just to

give you an idea of what sort of family from which he had come.

He is also credited as being an important shaper of the corner of literature known as either

dark romanticism or gothicism, which is, again, according to Wikipedia, emphasized

human fallibility and proneness to sin and self-destruction, as well as the difficulties

inherent in attempts to social reform.

His books include Moses from an old manse and other stories,

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