Beneath the brooding skies of brown fell, the Dule family grapples with a dark inheritance,

and John, a boyhood friend, is urgently summoned to help them navigate their dilemma.

A lust for wealth consumes beautiful Johnquil, driving her to urge the use of questionable methods,

while her husband, who would do anything to please her, is wary

about such a path. So what will John advise? Join me as we unravel this tale of greed, forbidden

knowledge, and the shadows that linger in the human heart. I am Tony Walker, narrator of the classic ghost stories podcast, and this

week's story is The Withered Heart by G.G. Pendavas. Everybody dies, don't they? Everybody come back.

Isn't that so?

You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?

How do the dead come back, mother?

What's the secret?

The Withered Heart by G.G. Pendavis.

Dear John, if a 15 years friendship means anything to you, come at once.

Sorry to hustle you like this, good old slow worm that you are, but we've simply got to go into session about this thing before the months out. The aides of March are on Tuesday next,

May 31st this year. My whole future is at stake, and you've got to come and help. It's a very

queer thing, and John Quill and I don't agree at all about it. I wish to heaven we'd found

the box earlier and had more time to argue it all out.

I see John Quill's point of view, of course, and feeling away bound to carry on for her sake.

But, well, you know my views about playing around with anything like magic and necromancy.

Johnquil says I'm morbid, still.

Oh, well, come and see us through it, Rafe, May 27, 1938.

I tried to pretend to myself that I couldn't go, that I wouldn't go, but even as I made these protestations inwardly, I was giving instructions to the boy Joe, who daily

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