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Just click the link in the show description to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night. Come on out of the chill. Overall, a tame February in these parts, but when the wind gets going, it does remind us that it's still winter.

The cabin is warm, and the air is calm. Find something warm to eat and something cool to drink. We have a longer show this evening with one long story, weighing it in

over an hour. It's a story that I narrated for the show quite some time ago. I gave it a bit of

a dry delivery, and I think it's fairly appropriate for the tone of the story. I really appreciated

this one because it has something to the setting that makes me recall Stephen

King's The Mist, the movie, that is. I haven't actually gotten around to reading the novella just

yet, but the movie is one of my all-time favorite specimens of our genre. Yes, yes, the movie

has monsters and gore, but what really causes it to shine is the psychological pressure

that the mind of its characters bend or even break under. And let's not forget, one of the

best endings to a horror film that I can clearly recall. Tonight's story is Peter Crowther's

palindromic. Peter Crowther is a recipient of numerous awards for his writing, his editing,

and as publisher for the hugely successful PS publishing,

now including the Stanza Press Poetry Subsidiary and PS Art Books,

a specialist in print dedicated to the comics field.

A link to his webpage will be in the show notes.

And now Peter Crowther's palindromic.

What sees thou else in the dark backward and bism of time?

William Shakespeare, The Tempest.

It was on the third day after the aliens arrived that we made the fateful discovery which

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