Hello there, listeners, and welcome back to Horror Hill. I’m your host, Erik Peabody, and we’re featuring a story tonight from an author that’s new to the show, Michael Botur.

You know, being fifteen years old is a tough age for most people. You don’t have much control over your life, you don’t know what you really want, and hell, you might not even know who you are, deep down. It can be an impressionable age, where you can inadvertently step onto a bad path and not even know it. The fifteen year old protagonist in tonight’s story finds himself in just such a position. He has an interest in the strange and the occult, and has found fuel for his interests in a periodical called The Strange Paper.

The editor of The Strange Paper is an enigmatic man named Maxwell Winkle. As our protagonist meets up with Mr. Winkle and goes further down the rabbit hole of the bizarre, we’re left to wonder what’s mere paranoid fantasy, and what’s actually real. 

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