Mike DelGaudio

And it's something that can get better with time.

I know that reading The Stand by Stephen King when I was 15 was a very different experience than when I read it at 30 and then reading it again when I was, well, let's just say older, shall we?

That's part of why I've always loved audio drama, especially horror audio drama.

I mean, the first audio drama I ever heard was a cassette of The Mist by Stephen King.

Some of you may know that.

And I think I was a sophomore in high school when that came out, and I just loved it.

And I think I loved it because you don't get the full picture.

You get just enough.

A voice, a moment, a suggestion.

And the rest is yours.

Isn't that incredible?

Your version of the story is always going to be a little different than mine.

And sometimes that makes it a lot more personal and a lot more unsettling.

As I've gotten older, that kind of horror has only gotten stronger for me.

Because the things that scare you change.

I mean, when I was younger, it was the monsters, the unknown.

But then life fills in some of those blanks for you.

You start to understand what it means to lose control.

To worry about the people you care about.

To realize that not everything has an explanation.