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Thank you. Welcome to Tales to Terrify.

Welcome to Tales to Terrify. Part of the District of Wonders Network, featuring Starship Sofa, Crime City Central, and Protecting Project Pulp.

Everyone has a story in the District of Wonders.

Come and find yours.

Good evening, children of the night. Come in. Come, come, come, come, close the door, please. We are into the horror of the drear season, humidity and temperatures oozing into the mid-90s. Well, it's only for another two months or so. And that, of course, is out there on the streets

where the wild things roam, staggers, sweat, pant. In here the air is cool and dry,

and terrors of affective nature await our shivers.

I hope you enjoyed a recent two-part rendering of Algernon Blackwood's The Willows.

I did.

As I said to one of the people who commented on it online, Blackwood was someone,

oh, look, yes, grab some treats from

the bags and bowls, pour a cooling drink, settle with a chum, there's plenty of room. Now,

where was I? Yes, Blackwood. Blackwood was a writer to whom I was introduced as a, well, as a mere

tot. I forgot about him in that time of

life when my nervous system required some more strident shocks than he delivered. I came back to him

several years ago when I realized that he was just a damn good craftsman and a writer of terrors par excellence.

I've come back to authors like Blackwood and M.R. Jains et all.

Recently and within the last few years,

...