Chilling prediction tucked away inside 1968's "Dwellers in Darkness"

I don't get to experience the pure delight of Tucked Away Inside items much anymore. It used to be one of my favorite things about sorting through boxes of used books to assess their viability for possible sale on Amazon.

But I recently picked up a used copy of the 1968 paperback Dwellers in the Darkness: The Enigma of the Supernatural, by John Macklin, and found an intriguing — and somewhat ominous — piece of paper folded up and tucked away inside. Weirdly, this is my second Macklin book this year that had something inside. Challenge to Reality, which I wrote about in January, still had its original receipt inside.

It's a long note, written in flowing, left-leaning cursive. As I worked my way through the whole message, I'll admit I started to get a feeling of minor dread in the pit of my stomach. I think we can guess this was written in 1968 or the early 1970s, at the latest. The book is pristine and clearly hasn't been handled much over the decades. 

Here's what the note states:

Brad

In his town where he will live, he will be hailed as a genius. Soon he would be found to be terribly conceited and they'll pay no attention to him. He will get poorer and poorer. Then a lady will come into his life, someone of nobility or royalty, and he will become rich. He will become powerful and somewhat evil or have a less extent of will applied to good ends. Nevertheless, he will have something to do with advances in education. Will grow more evil and when faced with charge of being too cruel or not doing much for something or another he will cancel it with a legal hearing, freeing him. Will receive more power, but will make mistakes and have disconnect with something important. Ill fortune — wife will die — but he will remarry and grow richer. He will lose position in gov. and go bankrupt. Will still have wife, but will be surrounded by false friends. Will live happily with wife.

Adding to the weirdness of this, the bottom-right portion of the sheet of paper has been torn off. Was something else written there?

I'll let you draw your own conclusions, as I'm sure some interesting ones formed in your mind while reading this — fortune? Prediction? Harmless outline for a character in an acting class or a writer's group? 

I ran it through a plagiarism checker and it came out as 100% unique, for whatever that's worth. And the text doesn't come up in any Google searches. 

There's also the added context that this was tucked away inside a book that states on the back cover: "These are the Dwellers in the Darkness — the people who seem to be just like you and me — but who are in reality, like nothing you have ever encountered."

And who is Brad?