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Happy Halloween.

I have a bonus episode for you tonight.

A few weeks ago, we launched a horror podcast called Just Chills.

I read classic scary stories as well as stories from more modern,

lesser-known writers. So if you love scary stories like this episode, check out Just Chills.

The links are on the show notes. And a shout out to Pocketcasts, the awesome podcast app,

for featuring Just Chills on their Halloween horrors list. Tonight, Halloween night, I will be

reading The Signal Man by Charles Dickens.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

Hello, below there.

When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole.

One would have thought, considering the nature of the ground, that he could not have doubted

from what quarter the voice came.

But instead of looking up to where I stood on the top of the steep cutting, nearly over his

head, he turned himself about and looked down the line.

There was something remarkable in his manner of doing so, though I could not have said

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