Hi, it’s Chuck, your host! I promise we’ll stick to a new Time Merchants episode every Friday morning. But with the holidays upon us, we’ve got something special planned—an episode every day for the 12 days leading up to Christmas! Some will be longer, some shorter, but all of them are sure to keep you entertained.

Stay tuned!

Twenty-four doors, twenty-four secrets, and one deadly countdown—will she sacrifice herself to save them all? In the quiet attic of her grandmother’s house, Margaret Peters uncovers a mysterious advent calendar unlike any other. Each opened door reveals a grotesque token—an old tooth, a severed fingernail, a lock of hair—and hours later, tragedy strikes someone in her town.

As the body count rises and her community falls into chaos, Margaret unravels the truth: the calendar is a prison, holding an ancient evil bound by her ancestors’ sacrifices. With each door she opens, the entity grows stronger, its hunger darker. To stop it, Margaret must make the ultimate choice: use the key to reseal the calendar, sacrificing her essence piece by piece, or watch her town and the world fall to a force beyond comprehension. This a spine-chilling tale of ancestral duty, sacrifice, and a race against time to keep an unspeakable horror locked away.

But as the days count down, the question remains: what happens when the final door opens?