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Thank you. 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 in and know that you are welcome. To the Nook,

to Tales to Terrify, to show number 64. My name is Lauren Santoro, and let there be a few words tonight before we embrace this evening's tale-telling.

So gather round my voice, have a listen.

We who dip into the fictive horrors of mortality

and examine the things that may lurk in the darkness beyond

can sometimes forget.

Death is real and comes for everyone.

Indeed, that may be one reason we embrace this genre, those of us who do embrace it,

to deny the terror implicit in having been born, in life, that dread of something

after death, the undiscovered country, the dreams that come when, well, you know.

We horror readers, writers, lovers, explore those supposed dreams and return from them to sunlight and

smiles. We survive, and life goes on. But there is death. And last week, we lost two great

writers to it. British master James Herbert and American master Rick Houtelah.

I knew James Herbert only by his work.

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