Try not to be afraid. I know it's a shocking image, and could send you scurrying for the safety of your bed. Try to whistle past the graveyard ...In Theatre Arts Conservatory's Student Slam 2008, Eric Samuelsen turned in a play that took me completely by surprise. What at first seemed a surrealist ensemble piece slowly transformed into a horror/suspense play, and it struck me that we've completely lost that in the modern theatre. Scary plays used to be a staple of sorts, and we've now happily walked away from the table and ceded the genre to television and film.
In honor of October, I'm spending the month looking at horror plays. It will be Spoooooooky, to be sure.
But there'll be candy at the end.
October 5: The Weird: A Collection of Short Horror and Pulp Plays by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
October 12: Frankenstein In Love by Clive Barker
October 19: A Night At An Inn by Lord Dunsany
October 26: Lovecraft's Follies by James Schevill
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What I love most about that horrifying graveyard drawing is that it was done on Hello Kitty paper!
That's the most horrifying thing!!!
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