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Thirteen days of Halloween is a production

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of I heart radio, Blumhouse television

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and grim and mild from Aaron mankey

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headphones recommended. Listener discretion

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advised. My

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dearest friend, come

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in the

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promise of eternity beckons to us.

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Are you prepared to witness what lies

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below? Good,

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I have awaited this night for so many

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years. Shall we open

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the hatch? I'll

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take that as a yes

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and a

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Stone Stairwell, oh

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my, let us dissent.

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Away we go. It

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is tied my friend, to put the pieces

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together for you. Tragedy

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struck early in his adulthood when

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a plague swept through the region and took

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with it his wife. It

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left him alone with a young daughter and unfathomable

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grief. Thankfully, he was

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not without means. His

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late wife had inherited quite a fortune

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and left it all to their daughter. He

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promptly left the architecture firm for which

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he toiled since college and began his

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own strange business, a

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small firm with a single client

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himself. He

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became obsessed with a singular and

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secret goal. He immersed

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himself in occult histories

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practices. He procured every

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arcane tone in existence. He

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constructed a modest library in which

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to house them and hired a

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young man named Oliver to

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assist in his studies. To

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get the pair scoured every

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Grimoire, scrull and religious

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right in hopes of finding a cure

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for the architect's affliction, and

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after countless sleepless

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months, oliver found

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it a forbidden

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ritual, recorded and lost

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language, to call forth an

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ancient entity, one with

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the power to shake time and space

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itself. At the appointed

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hour, on the appointed night, the architect

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and Oliver cast a circle of obscure settles.

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Together they had allowed the violent

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cantations to death, they spooned each other's

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blood and together they witnessed the

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impossible. You

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have found me when so many

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before have failed. There

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it stood at the circled center,

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towering over them, eyes ablaze,

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an indescribable creature born

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of shadow and flame. It

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looked upon the architect and said,

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as reward, I shall grant

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you that which you most desire.

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The architect, without hesitation,

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replied, I wish

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to bring my wife home to

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be with her forever. The

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entity pause for a moment, then smiled. Very

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well, but first you

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shall require a temple where

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they are returned, I shall

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grant you the time, the knowledge

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and the will to construct such

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a place. You will see its

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dimensions written in the stars

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and you shall build it just so.

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And at the autumn of the deepest level

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you shall lild a great stone

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door when this work

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has been completed, and on the final

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night of Arvest, you shall walk

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through that door and your

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wife shall return and

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you will be together for eternity.

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Look to the stars,

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architect. It

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was gone. Immediately,

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the architect, with all of us assistants, began

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in earnest. First they

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built wondrous observatory and

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with it saw in the star as a

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great house. Together

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they laid the corner stone and thus

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the foundation of the house. Oh

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but the time it took to build months

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became years, years deck

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eight. The architect called

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obsessive and cruel. He

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shunned society altogether and alienated

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his only child, who, in

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her own time, past. But

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walls went up in the labyrinthine

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house. Groom and the greater

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it swelled. Soul were the architect's

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pride and cruelty.

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Until finally Oliver

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laid the last stone at

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the threshold of this doorway,

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this very stone

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pure obsidian dug from

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a mine in Iceland, carried across

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the sea to be laid as a footstep.

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Todd ascension, my

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friend, we are here and

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the moment is again at hand. See

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the settle drawn, and so we'll see how they guide

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our steps towards the great door. See

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Hockey clow, my

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dearest companion. It would

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honor me greatly, it would

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make my heart sink if

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you walk through first. It

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is all right to be afraid. The

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architect was afraid. Follow

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the voices. They will guide

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you, and I shall be close at your

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heels. Go

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on then, yes,

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you glow, my friend. It

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is all happening. As

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the architect's afraid, he

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knew that the creature be summoned and laced

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him on this path was untrustworthy,

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and so he invited all of them

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to take the first stall descension.

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Yes, my dearest friend, I

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owe you everything. You

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tracked me from a life of trudgery

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into a world of signs

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and riches and wonders.

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When we built this house of the stars, this

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House of whispers from beyond, I did not

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know that it would become my prison.

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When you convinced me to venture first,

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you sealed both of our fate. When

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I walked through this door, instead of you, the

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entity appeared before us. I

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accept Oliver as caretaker

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of my temple, and

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you, architect, for

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your cowardice, I curse

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you with Everlasting Shadow.

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And so you, the great

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architect, were reduced to a mere

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shade, without memory,

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without voice, without even

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a name. What

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was on some magnificent mind,

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the greatest in history, now

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nothing more than a blank page.

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Even now you are confused.

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But, my dear architect, you have all of

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eternity to explore this place and to

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remember who you are. Take

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Heart, your wife is here.

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She has been since the night you betrayed me. She

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will always be with you, along

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with all the other tormented souls that arrived

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throughout the centuries. Unfortunately,

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in your state, you'll never

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know which face is hers.

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Do not look forlorn friend. This

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will not be the last ascension. In

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a few hundred years,

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when the star has a line again, perhaps

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you'll find another to take your place.

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This is for you to

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figure out. My

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time here is almost past. When

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I mean take

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care of your house, this temple,

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and make sure that its guests are well attempted.

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Perhaps they will on occasion reward

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you with the tale to pass the time. It

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moves so terribly slow

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here fairly

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well, friend, looked

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at the stars. I

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Assad to your architect

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as scare taker. Stupid.

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Excuse me, you'll have to I'm

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a bit lost and seeking shelter.

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Can you help me? Is

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this Hawthorn manner? I

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met a man on the road ways back. He said

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he just came from here. That's a hotel. I might stay

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here, and he said the caretaker

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would meet me here by the gate. Is that

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you? Can

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you hear me? Are Are you the caretaker? Are

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you? Thirteen

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days of Halloween was created by Matt Frederick

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and Alex Williams and executive produced

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by Aaron Manky, starring Keegan Michael

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Key as the caretaker. Today

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story was written by Nicholas Takowski and

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directed by Matt Frederick, with editing

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and sound design by Matt Frederick. Thirteen

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days of Halloween is a production of I heart

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radio, Blumhouse television and Grimm

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