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Ever get that chill when you're alone in the dark?

After Dark is a brand new horror podcast that fully embodies that feeling

with a soothing female narrator that draws you in before leading you into the shadows.

Each week, After Dark tells some of the most terrifying tales that feel

a little too real, the kind that make you glance over your shoulder or leave a light on

at night. If you're already hooked on Dr. No Sleep, you'll feel right at home with After Dark.

Well, if Home had shadows that whispered back. Tune in to After Dark today by clicking the link in the episode description.

Just one warning, don't listen alone.

Talk to nice sleep.

It may surprise you to learn this, but we demons love Christmas.

It truly is the most magical time of the year, when friends and families gather for rich meals and hot drinks, to sit by candlelight and unwrap tokens of their mutual affection,

to sing together, dance together, and share secret kisses under the mistletoe. Such rituals are, of course,

quite disgusting to a demon, but it is the glorious contrast between those happy moments

and the experiences of those who don't have them that we enjoy. The parent by the hospital bed

of their comatose child on Christmas Eve,

the vagrant veteran who spends the holiday shivering under a bridge, the friendless loner

clasping their hands over their ears, so they don't have to hear the festive party next

door. That is magic. For truer words were never spoken than these, El hath no torture like a lonely

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