When police officer Matt Klein returns to the quiet coastal town of Marshport, he hopes

for a fresh start with his family.

But a series of brutal, inexplicable deaths begins to unravel the town.

At the center of it all is an ancient evil bound to a seemingly harmless gift of an antique

advent calendar, a relic, counting down to the night when the light of Christmas goes out.

As the days slip by, strange voices whisper through the walls, people go mad, and reality

itself starts to crack.

The deeper Matt digs, the closer he comes to facing an evil that has been waiting for him for years.

Now with his wife and sons in peril and the final door of the calendar looming, Matt must confront the truth.

Some traditions were never meant to be completed. 24 days. 24 doors. All leading to one unholy Christmas Eve. Advent of Evil, a 24-episode

event on Weird Darkness beginning December 1st,

or get the entire novel at Weirddarkness.com slash advent of evil.

Thank you. The oldest genetic messenger molecules ever recovered reveal exactly what was happening inside an Ice Age mammoth's body when it died.

I'm Darren Marler, and this is weird dark news.

The frozen ground in Siberia has been giving up its secrets for years. I'm Darren Marler, and this is weird dark news.

The frozen ground in Siberia has been giving up its secrets for years.

Mammoth tusks, ancient bones, the occasional skeleton.

This time it gave up something nobody expected to find.

Yucigir is a tiny village on the Siberian coast, right where the land meets the Laptiv

Sea. The people who live there

have gotten pretty used to finding mammoth remains. Their village sits on a ground that's

been frozen solid for tens of thousands of years, layered ice and dirt from back when

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