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Consider yourself warned.

Suopod. Sudapod, episode 930 for July 26, 2024, The Dablers by W.F. Harvey. Narrated by Tall, hosted by Scott Campbell,

audio by Chelsea Davis.

Hello everyone, hope you're all doing okay. I'm Scott Assistant Editor at Suipod, your host for this week. Finally.

Thank you to Kat for helping me out with subbing in. Life. Don't talk to me about life. I am excited to talk about this

week's story, The Dabblers by W.F. Harvey. This story first appeared in the 1928 collection The Beast with Five Fingers.

Your author this week is W. Farrvy.

William Friar Harvey, 1885 to 1937, was an English writer of short stories, most notably in the Macabre and horror genres.

Among his best known stories are the powerful precognition tale August heat 1910 and the Beast with Five Fingers adapted for film in

1948 with Peter Lorry.

In World War I he initially joined the friend's ambulance unit, but later served as a surgeon lieutenant

in the Royal Navy, and received the Albert Medal for Life Saving.

He received lung damage during a rescue operation, damage which troubled him for the rest of his life.

He wrote his memoir, We Were Seven in 1936.

From the late 1920s to the early 1930s he lived in Switzerland with his wife.

But nostalgia for his home country caused his return to England,

dying in Leckworth in 1937 at the age of 52.

Your narrator is Tull. Tull has had a varied career, including as a hostage negotiator, car repairr,

and professional artist. He's currently a lawyer, mostly in the video gaming AI and social media fields.

Technically, he's been trained by ninjas in the SAS. In his own time he's relearning French and the piano and taking up cage fighting.

He summers in the coat de jure and winters in London, England and wonders if he got those the right way around.

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