In the dark of night, one light still yet burns.

Frightened fingers tremble as brittle pages turn.

Fireside Mystery Theatre presents The Midnight Reading,

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To gaze directly into the eyes of something that looks very much like you that moves, turns,

and gestures in ways that invite comparison to the human form, but for all practical purposes is essentially a dead thing.

You are face to face with an automaton.

An intricate mechanical invention that inspires astonishment and more

often than not, a sense of discomfort and unease. Really, who would want to be locked alone at

night in a gallery filled with those gruesome things? I certainly wouldn't. Autometer,

life-like robots that can walk, talk, smoke cigars, play chess, draw pictures, and like the title character in our story, dance.

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