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Speaker 1: Thirteen days of Halloween is a production of I heart radio,

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Speaker 1: Blumhouse television and grim and mild from Aaron mankey headphones recommended.

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Speaker 1: Listener discretion advised. His Bark is worse than his bite.

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Speaker 1: Hello Fred, I see you've taken to exploring the House

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Speaker 1: and you've chosen the perfect hallway to wander down today.

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Speaker 1: Come behind these magnificently carved Mahogany doors. Is One of

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Speaker 1: my favorite parts of the house. Welcome to the Grand Library.

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Speaker 1: You'll note the vaulted ceilings, of course, and the fresco

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Speaker 1: depicting the serpent leading eve to an lightenment and all

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Speaker 1: that followed. The artist was a sweet man, quiet. He

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Speaker 1: liked to lick his bruscious clean throughout the day. Some

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Speaker 1: mineral caused him to go quite mad. You'll notice the

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Speaker 1: increasingly violent imagery at the further stages. Some of the

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Speaker 1: oldest books in existence resigned here with symbols which have

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Speaker 1: not been seen by modern eyes. The architect, as you

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Speaker 1: can guess, was quite the collective. He hoarded knowledge like

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Speaker 1: a dragon and this was his lair. Did you know

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Speaker 1: that when the library at Alexandria burned, a small collection

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Speaker 1: of occult books were spared by a sect of rabbis

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Speaker 1: who passed them from generation to generation, protecting them until

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Speaker 1: the architect himself came to possess them. The books have

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Speaker 1: remained safe here ever since. The pages, filled with strange

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Speaker 1: secret rounds that predate Alexandria by many centuries have the

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Speaker 1: intrigue in quality of being both completely alien to the

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Speaker 1: reader and perfectly understandable. I would not recommend them. Oh My,

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Speaker 1: it seems we're not alone. Come Out, come out, wherever

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Speaker 1: you are. No, I should have known. My friend this

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Speaker 1: is David. He's quite fond of the literary arts. David,

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Speaker 1: my friend here, is quite the fan of stories. Now

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Speaker 1: I'll excuse myself. There is a tomb here on the

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Speaker 1: Great Necropolis of Baghdad that I'm simply dying to read.

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Speaker 1: A joke, somewhat of a joke. Yeah, I'm here often,

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Speaker 1: I realized more and more than anywhere else, I think.

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Speaker 1: But these books, I find them comfortable. You know, the

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Speaker 1: thing about books is that it's really just a way

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Speaker 1: to escape, even if only briefly. When I first came

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Speaker 1: here to this place, someone else are fairly often. He

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Speaker 1: saw him coming and going. He was just always here,

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Speaker 1: like just sort of staring off into the void. Well, anyway,

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Speaker 1: with so much sadness. Then he asked me, what's the

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Speaker 1: most pain you've ever felt? He was so earnest, you know,

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Speaker 1: like he needed the answer. Oh, I said nothing. I

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Speaker 1: I kept coming back here, you know, as often as

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Speaker 1: you've ever felt? I never replied, but truthfully, though, I

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Speaker 1: answer was. When our daughter was born, both making his

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Speaker 1: parents and my parents were there. My father was a

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Speaker 1: very religious man, but religious in that old school fire

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Speaker 1: and brimstone away. In his world there were demons and

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Speaker 1: signs from God, all very, very real. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: was a believer, sure, but never quite the way he was.

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Speaker 1: You know. Anyway, when the baby's first party, you think

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Speaker 1: there's immediately going to be some crying, right, but not

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Speaker 1: always my father's are. He called it an abomination. She

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Speaker 1: parents helped with babysitting when I got back to work,

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Speaker 1: when he did he just stared at her and read

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Speaker 1: to him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against

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Speaker 1: manner of sickness and all manner of disease. Elizabeth was

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Speaker 1: or whenever it was? Did you tell them you love them,

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Speaker 1: doubt it, but that's what happens. You take something for granted,

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Speaker 1: something up. I would text her at lunch and she

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Speaker 1: did something cute which was always and I never got

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Speaker 1: maybe Elizabeth threw up or had diarrhea, or maybe they're playing,

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Speaker 1: so I quickly called out to my wife, Megan. No reply,

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Speaker 1: so long, for a split second my father looked like

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Speaker 1: an angel descended from heaven to save his only son.

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Speaker 1: small church, from my father preached when me and Megan

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Speaker 1: last word. And he said, I baptize you with water

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Speaker 1: all the way under. My father was there in the

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Speaker 1: ceremonial robes, standing waist deep in the font. Next time

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Speaker 1: I didn't even see it. My father was holding Elizabeth.

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Speaker 1: She was always so quiet, so perfect. I watched as

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Speaker 1: was watching him with a curse, rebuking the abomination our

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Speaker 1: Amen as hollow. He's from the Cherry crowd, and I

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Speaker 1: After he drowned my daughter and my wife. He put

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Speaker 1: said You, Oh my son, oh my love you, I

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Speaker 1: I never didn't get to tell that old cook because

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Speaker 1: Every time you asked me that question, he forced me

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Speaker 1: to remember for one brief moment, I got to see

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Speaker 1: Ellistma again, my friend. While on the hunt for a

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Speaker 1: history book, I found this Ancient Tome of dream divination

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Speaker 1: on the architect's private shelf. You'll notice pages marked here

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Speaker 1: and here, a Palette, a Maelstrom of a portal. What

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Speaker 1: say you? Perhaps a clue to his intentions in building

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Speaker 1: our door? You're right, too soon to tell, I suppose.

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Speaker 1: We shall see. I can tell by your look that

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Speaker 1: you have a first for more than just knowledge. Perhaps tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: for a nice change of pace, reconvisit the sunset lounge

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Speaker 1: for a few libations. Be a dear and at least

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Speaker 1: not excellent drinks. It is. Enjoy perusing the stacks, but

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Speaker 1: don't trust everything you read. Thirteen days of Halloween was

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Speaker 1: created by Matt Frederick and Alex Williams and executive produced

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Speaker 1: by Erin Manky, starring Keegan Michael Key as the caretaker.

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Speaker 1: Today's story was written by Matt Riddle, performed by David

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Speaker 1: Chin and directed by Matt Frederick, with editing and sound

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Speaker 1: designed by Ben Kybrick, additional writing and script supervision from

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Speaker 1: Nicholas Takowski casting by Jessica loser. Only nine days remain.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow another story. Grab my phone, turn on flashlight, APP

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Speaker 1: found a baseball bad stash by my bed and made

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