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Just click the link in the show description to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night, step on in out of the cold and to the warm cabin.

Stamp the last of the season's snow off of your boots and collect yourselves near the fire.

I'll stow your jackets for the evening. The Shenandoah Valley continues to be fickle about if it'll yield winter to spring just yet.

A few weeks ago, I raised the question on Facebook. If we have a show that approaches an hour and a half because of one lengthy story,

should we break it up into two, or just let it lie as is? There were dozens of responses

within the first couple hours and not a single person said

split it up.

So, get comfortable.

You'll be here inside the cabin for a while this evening.

This is a particularly special show, because the short stories' authors' website is a

Wikipedia entry.

I'm speaking of Edith Wharton.

I have to admit that this author born in the

19th century, I had little familiarity with prior to my time here. Mrs. Wharton was born Edith

Newboldt, Jones, on January 24th, 1862 in New York City. An interesting aside is that it seems that the expression, keeping up with the

Joneses, refers to her father's family. When she was four, her family spent the next six years in

Europe to avoid the American Civil War. Edith would begin writing poetry and fiction as a teenager,

which seems to be one of the best seasons of life to begin. One of her novels, The Age of Innocence, won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize

for literature, making Wharton the first woman to win the award. Tonight, we will be hearing something

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