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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. My dearest friend, come in the promise

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Speaker 1: of eternity beckons to us. Are you prepared to witness

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Speaker 1: what lies below? Good, I have awaited this night for

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Speaker 1: so many years. Shall we open the hatch? I'll take

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Speaker 1: that as a yes and a Stone Stairwell, oh my,

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Speaker 1: let us dissent. Away we go. It is tied my friend,

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Speaker 1: to put the pieces together for you. Tragedy struck early

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Speaker 1: in his adulthood when a plague swept through the region

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Speaker 1: and took with it his wife. It left him alone

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Speaker 1: with a young daughter and unfathomable grief. Thankfully, he was

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Speaker 1: not without means. His late wife had inherited quite a

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Speaker 1: fortune and left it all to their daughter. He promptly

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Speaker 1: left the architecture firm for which he toiled since college

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Speaker 1: and began his own strange business, a small firm with

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Speaker 1: a single client himself. He became obsessed with a singular

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Speaker 1: and secret goal. He immersed himself in occult histories practices.

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Speaker 1: He procured every arcane tone in existence. He constructed a

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Speaker 1: modest library in which to house them and hired a

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Speaker 1: young man named Oliver to assist in his studies. To

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Speaker 1: get the pair scoured every Grimoire, scrull and religious right

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Speaker 1: in hopes of finding a cure for the architect's affliction,

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Speaker 1: and after countless sleepless months, oliver found it a forbidden ritual,

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Speaker 1: recorded and lost language, to call forth an ancient entity,

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Speaker 1: one with the power to shake time and space itself.

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Speaker 1: At the appointed hour, on the appointed night, the architect

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Speaker 1: and Oliver cast a circle of obscure settles. Together they

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Speaker 1: had allowed the violent cantations to death, they spooned each

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Speaker 1: other's blood and together they witnessed the impossible. You have

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Speaker 1: found me when so many before have failed. There it

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Speaker 1: stood at the circled center, towering over them, eyes ablaze,

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Speaker 1: an indescribable creature born of shadow and flame. It looked

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Speaker 1: upon the architect and said, as reward, I shall grant

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Speaker 1: you that which you most desire. The architect, without hesitation, replied,

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Speaker 1: I wish to bring my wife home to be with

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Speaker 1: her forever. The entity pause for a moment, then smiled.

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Speaker 1: Very well, but first you shall require a temple where

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Speaker 1: they are returned, I shall grant you the time, the

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Speaker 1: knowledge and the will to construct such a place. You

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Speaker 1: will see its dimensions written in the stars and you

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Speaker 1: shall build it just so. And at the autumn of

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Speaker 1: the deepest level you shall lild a great stone door

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Speaker 1: when this work has been completed, and on the final

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Speaker 1: night of Arvest, you shall walk through that door and

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Speaker 1: your wife shall return and you will be together for eternity.

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Speaker 1: Look to the stars, architect. It was gone. Immediately, the architect,

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Speaker 1: with all of us assistants, began in earnest. First they

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Speaker 1: built wondrous observatory and with it saw in the star

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Speaker 1: as a great house. Together they laid the corner stone

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Speaker 1: and thus the foundation of the house. Oh but the

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Speaker 1: time it took to build months became years, years deck eight.

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Speaker 1: The architect called obsessive and cruel. He shunned society altogether

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Speaker 1: and alienated his only child, who, in her own time, past.

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Speaker 1: But walls went up in the labyrinthine house. Groom and

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Speaker 1: the greater it swelled. Soul were the architect's pride and cruelty.

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Speaker 1: Until finally Oliver laid the last stone at the threshold

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Speaker 1: of this doorway, this very stone pure obsidian dug from

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Speaker 1: a mine in Iceland, carried across the sea to be

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Speaker 1: laid as a footstep. Todd ascension, my friend, we are

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Speaker 1: here and the moment is again at hand. See the

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Speaker 1: settle drawn, and so we'll see how they guide our

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Speaker 1: steps towards the great door. See Hockey clow, my dearest companion.

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Speaker 1: It would honor me greatly, it would make my heart

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Speaker 1: sink if you walk through first. It is all right

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Speaker 1: to be afraid. The architect was afraid. Follow the voices.

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Speaker 1: They will guide you, and I shall be close at

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Speaker 1: your heels. Go on then, yes, you glow, my friend.

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Speaker 1: It is all happening. As the architect's afraid, he knew

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Speaker 1: that the creature be summoned and laced him on this

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Speaker 1: path was untrustworthy, and so he invited all of them

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Speaker 1: to take the first stall descension. Yes, my dearest friend,

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Speaker 1: I owe you everything. You tracked me from a life

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Speaker 1: of trudgery into a world of signs and riches and wonders.

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Speaker 1: When we built this house of the stars, this House

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Speaker 1: of whispers from beyond, I did not know that it

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Speaker 1: would become my prison. When you convinced me to venture first,

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Speaker 1: you sealed both of our fate. When I walked through

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Speaker 1: this door, instead of you, the entity appeared before us.

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Speaker 1: I accept Oliver as caretaker of my temple, and you, architect,

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Speaker 1: for your cowardice, I curse you with Everlasting Shadow. And

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Speaker 1: so you, the great architect, were reduced to a mere shade,

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Speaker 1: without memory, without voice, without even a name. What was

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Speaker 1: on some magnificent mind, the greatest in history, now nothing

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Speaker 1: more than a blank page. Even now you are confused. But,

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Speaker 1: my dear architect, you have all of eternity to explore

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Speaker 1: this place and to remember who you are. Take Heart,

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Speaker 1: your wife is here. She has been since the night

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Speaker 1: you betrayed me. She will always be with you, along

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Speaker 1: with all the other tormented souls that arrived throughout the centuries. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: in your state, you'll never know which face is hers.

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Speaker 1: Do not look forlorn friend. This will not be the

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Speaker 1: last ascension. In a few hundred years, when the star

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Speaker 1: has a line again, perhaps you'll find another to take

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Speaker 1: your place. This is for you to figure out. My

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Speaker 1: time here is almost past. When I mean take care

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Speaker 1: of your house, this temple, and make sure that its

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Speaker 1: guests are well attempted. Perhaps they will on occasion reward

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Speaker 1: you with the tale to pass the time. It moves

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Speaker 1: so terribly slow here fairly well, friend, looked at the stars.

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Speaker 1: I Assad to your architect as scare taker. Stupid. Excuse me,

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Speaker 1: you'll have to I'm a bit lost and seeking shelter.

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Speaker 1: Can you help me? Is this Hawthorn manner? I met

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Speaker 1: a man on the road ways back. He said he

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Speaker 1: just came from here. That's a hotel. I might stay here,

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Speaker 1: and he said the caretaker would meet me here by

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Speaker 1: the gate. Is that you? Can you hear me? Are

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Speaker 1: Are you the caretaker? Are you? Thirteen days of Halloween

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

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

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Speaker 1: Today story was written by Nicholas Takowski and directed by

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Speaker 1: Matt Frederick, with editing and sound design by Matt Frederick.

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