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Thank you. Welcome to Tales to Terrify. To Terrify. Good evening, Children of the Night.

I am Stephen Kilpatrick, and I will be your host for the night.

Come in, get settled, pour yourself something to drink, find something to eat, and it will get started.

Before we dive into business as usual, I'd like to let our listening audience know that we're putting out a call

for an editor to help out around here at the Nook. I won't inject the details of that right

into the middle of things, but if this caught your ear at the absolute end of this episode,

I'll include details. Tonight will be one big bite of fiction.

Our story for the evening will be Gary Fry's, the familial, weighing in at just under an hour.

So, Mahler, the ink-black cat of the nook, and I will be keeping you just a bit longer than usual.

Gary Fry has a first-class degree and a Ph.D. in psychology, though his first love is

literature. He lives in Dracula's Whitby, literally around the corner from where Bram Stoker

was staying while thinking about that legendary character. He has been writing seriously for about 10 years, despite dabbling with prose since his teens.

His first sale was a rather grand one, a short story, both and, to Ramsey Campbell for

inclusion in the International Anthology Gathering the Bones.

Gary has had a number of books published, including short story collections, novellas, and novels.

His first collection included an introduction by Ramsey Campbell in which Gary was described

as a master.

All these books reflect Gary's preference for page-turning narratives, complex thematic development,

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