THURSDAY May 8th at 6pm: X-Files - The House On Hickory Hill

  

"They used to hang witches there"

X-Files - The House On Hickory Hill

Arthur Creed moves his family into the House on Hickory Hill in Banewich, Massachusetts to write his next ghost book on the history of this house where a former family was murdered. There are no appearances of anything remotely 'haunted' however, until the youngest daughter Heather wakes in the middle of the night and sees the houses walls bulging and apparently bleeding. She runs to her older sisters room for help, only to find she has been kidnapped, and a ransom note left by Clayton Geech. Clayton Geech who murdered of the former family in the house... but he was executed 40 years earlier!

Book: X-Files: Trust No One
Author: Max Allan Collins

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THURSDAY August 1st at 7pm: Adventures of BATMAN!

  "Justice is always Darkest before the Dawn"

Adventures of BATMAN!

MASKS

As if in a dream only one man can know, he tastes the dirt of the alley he crawls through, the cold taste of his own defeat. Laughter, mad and maniacal, peals from the dark brick walls. In this place, at this time, the Batman's reign is ending. And the Joker laughs.

DADDY'S GIRL

It was a solo night job. Bruce had gone to Washington to deliver a lecture and had asked me to stay here in Gotham. My job was nailing the Tomcat, a very sharp jewel thief who was hitting all the wealthy West Side mansions.

In the Batcave at Seanchai Library

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Book: FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE JOKER
Editor: Martin Greenberg
Authors: Garfield Reeves-Stevens - Masks
William F. Nolan - Daddy's Girl
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Thursday Oct. 5th at 7-8:30pm: TROUBLE IN BRAIDS

   

- THE WOLF IN ME BEGAN TO SNARL -

TROUBLE IN BRAIDS

by Jonathan Maberry

Supernatural noir hard-boiled detective tale featuring Los Angeles private eye Sam Hunter who doesn’t have a soft side -  but he does have an unhuman side.

Seanchai Library in Second Life

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THURSDAY October 27th at 7pm: NOTEBOOK FOUND IN A DESERTED HOUSE

   

"them ones was a-hiding in the swamps"

NOTEBOOK FOUND
IN A DESERTED HOUSE

12-year old Willie Osborne writes a last missive in the eponymous notebook while “they” dig in an old well just outside the farmhouse looking for a gate. Willie has boarded himself inside.. but before long they’ll be coming for him.

Book: Selected tales from 'Weird Tales' magazine, c.1930's

Author: Robert Bloch

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THURSDAY October 6th at 7-8:30pm: Writer's Bloch

  

      "His words crashed against my consciousness"

WRITER'S BLOCH

Tonight is a selection of stories from Robert Bloch.

Each of these three stories tonight is a nod to two of Bloch’s favorite authors.. Poe and Lovecraft.

Robert Bloch wrote a fan letter to HP Lovecraft at the age of 16. Lovecraft encouraged the young boy to begin writing fiction and to submit his stories to Weird Tales magazine. Thus began a 60-year writing career that is one of the most distinguished in the horror and mystery field.

Bloch is today, of course, most famous as the author of Psycho.

He is also well-known for having said,

"Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy.

I keep it in a jar on my desk."

The Man Who Collected Poe

Our narrator is a bibliophile going to meet the world's foremost collector of everything related to Edgar Allan Poe. Launcelot Canning is a third generation Poe collector, both his father and grandfather were obsessed with the writer. In fact, the grandfather built a Poesque mansion in the 1870s that Launcelot lives in now. The present Canning, though, crossed over into unhealthy monomania long ago.

The Secret in the Tomb

A man's quest for arcane knowledge and immortal life in a dank, dark, haunted tomb. Placing it easily with some of the best of Lovecraft’s works. Written when Bloch was just 17 years old.

The Suicide in the Study

A young wizard plans to hypnotize himself into two personalities, the good and the evil, with disastrous consequences for both, of course.

Book: Selected tales from 'Weird Tales' magazine, c.1930's

Author: Robert Bloch

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and

Nightmare Art Gallery at Halloween Mall Castle in Kitely

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THURSDAY October 14th at 7pm & 9pm Hallowe'en Stories: 7pm THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH OF JOHN BUCKLEY and 9pm HORROR AT THE DRIVE IN

  

"War is Hell"

THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH OF JOHN BUCKLEY

-- Special 80 minute presentation --

When a photographic retoucher is commissioned to fix the abnormalities on a Great War portrait, he finds his own past and that of the subject beginning to connect. Are his personal nightmares returning, or is it something more? A short ghost story in the M.R. James tradition, The Last Photograph of John Buckley is a dark tale of past crimes and unfinished business.

FOLLOWED AT 9pm by:

HORROR AT THE DRIVE-IN

An introverted teen battles a horde of mind-devouring aliens

who have invaded the world through film.

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Book: THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH OF JOHN BUCKLEY

Author: T. J. Brown

THURSDAY October 7th at 7pm: THE PAST

   

"The ghost of a past love"

THE PAST

-- Special 75 minute presentation --

Ellen Glasgow was an American novelist born in 1873, and published many books and stories from 1897 thru 1941. Many of her works involved social commentary, romanticism, and… Ghosts! Tonight's story is all of these.

THE PAST

Mr. Vanderbridge's deceased first wife is keeping him from living in the present. His second wife strives to break the past's hold over him... and her.

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Book: Restless Spirits

Author: Catherine A. Lundie

THURSDAY September 30th at 7pm: ABANDONED

  

"I heard the deadbolt click"
ABANDONED

-- Special 90 minute presentation --

Lisa has nowhere to go. She’s been kicked out of her apartment in Queens by her worthless boyfriend and has no other friends in the city. A co-worker tells her about a house on Staten Island where she can live in rent-free, but Lisa comes to realize the price that comes with living in an abandoned house.

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Novella: Abandoned

Author: Carol McMahon

THURSDAY May 13th at 7pm: Monsters of Mythology - ANTEUS!

       

"The gods are watching

Monsters of Mythology - ANTEUS!
part 2 of 2

Anteus is the monster antihero of tonight’s story. He is the towering, bloodthirsty son of Mother Earth and the Serpent of Chaos, a cannibal giant made happy only by the cries of human suffering. He is a hated but invincible king - until he encounters Hercules.

Their battle is arranged by Hera, Queen of the Gods. In a jealous rage, she has conspired to tilt the outcome in the giant's favor. Anteus has been given a magical power, so that if he is knocked to earth he will rise up stronger than before. Hercules is then made to vow that he will fight unarmed. Only as tall as Anteus's knee, the Theban hero appears doomed.

But other gods are watching . . .

This is a tale of comrades lost and prophecies fulfilled; of magically monstrous forces in battle. It is a riveting saga of those who thrive on revenge and are fueled by bloodlust, but it also tells of the even stronger powers of compassion and hope. It is about jealous rivalries and angers expanded to the scale of giants and gods, about brave sacrifices and heroic deeds, all within the turbulent world of myth occupied by heroes, gods, and monsters.

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Book: Monsters of Mythology - ANTEUS

Author: Bernard Evslin

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THURSDAY May 6th at 7pm: Monsters of Mythology - ANTEUS!

   

"The gods are watching

Monsters of Mythology - ANTEUS!
part 1 of 2

Anteus is the monster antihero of tonight’s story. He is the towering, bloodthirsty son of Mother Earth and the Serpent of Chaos, a cannibal giant made happy only by the cries of human suffering. He is a hated but invincible king - until he encounters Hercules.

Their battle is arranged by Hera, Queen of the Gods. In a jealous rage, she has conspired to tilt the outcome in the giant's favor. Anteus has been given a magical power, so that if he is knocked to earth he will rise up stronger than before. Hercules is then made to vow that he will fight unarmed. Only as tall as Anteus's knee, the Theban hero appears doomed.

But other gods are watching . . .

This is a tale of comrades lost and prophecies fulfilled; of magically monstrous forces in battle. It is a riveting saga of those who thrive on revenge and are fueled by bloodlust, but it also tells of the even stronger powers of compassion and hope. It is about jealous rivalries and angers expanded to the scale of giants and gods, about brave sacrifices and heroic deeds, all within the turbulent world of myth occupied by heroes, gods, and monsters.

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Book: Monsters of Mythology - ANTEUS

Author: Bernard Evslin

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THURSDAY January 28th at 7pm: evermore - do you really exist?

 

evermore
"what happens if the Avatar gets disconnected from the Typist??"

"We must all hang together or we will assuredly all hang separately."

This is a sentiment that's even more appropriate, and more urgent, when you're lost between the stars in a crippled and out-of-control ship, your shipmates aren't talking to each other (and haven't for thousands of years), and you don't really exist in the first place.

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Book: Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams

Authors: Sean Williams

Adapted for this presentation by: Shandon Loring

THURSDAY August 27th at 7pm: DIAMOND JIM and the DINOSAURS

"They’ve been dead way too long"

DIAMOND JIM and the DINOSAURS

Marty Zuber discoverS that the slipperiest of creatures may not be a Cretaceous dinosaur but rather is Diamond Jim, a fellow time traveler. Worse yet, Diamond Jim has teamed up with Marty’s rival, Derek Dill. The story is set in Antarctica. Yes indeed, our southernmost continent teemed with all manner of dinosaurs, to say nothing of other exotic critters.

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Book: ANALOG Science Fiction and Fact - April 2016 

Author: Rosemary Claire Smith

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THURSDAY August 6th at 7pm: Philip Marlow - THE FINGER MAN pt2

"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts"

Philip Marlow
THE FINGER MAN pt2

Marlowe is subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury investigating the mob murder of a district attorney he was hired to bodyguard. Throw in a femme fatale and Marlowe has his hands full trying to shake himself loose from the murder rap of a former client killed with his gun. The pressure is on and the fix is in as the mob tries to force him to change his testimony.

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Book: The Finger Man

Author: Raymond Chandler

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THURSDAY July 30th at 7pm: Philip Marlowe - THE FINGER MAN pt1

"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts"

Philip Marlowe
THE FINGER MAN pt1

Marlowe is subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury investigating the mob murder of a district attorney he was hired to bodyguard. Throw in a femme fatale and Marlowe has his hands full trying to shake himself loose from the murder rap of a former client killed with his gun. The pressure is on and the fix is in as the mob tries to force him to change his testimony.

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Book: The Finger Man

Author: Raymond Chandler

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at 9pm: SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT, Contemporary Sci-Fi-Fantasy with Finn Zeddmore featuring stories from sources including Escape Pod, Light Speed, and Clarkesworld online magazines.

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THURSDAY July 23rd at 7pm: Adventures of BATMAN! - "Justice is always Darkest before the Dawn"

"Justice is always Darkest before the Dawn"

Adventures of BATMAN!

MASKS

As if in a dream only one man can know, he tastes the dirt of the alley he crawls through, the cold taste of his own defeat. Laughter, mad and maniacal, peals from the dark brick walls. In this place, at this time, the Batman's reign is ending. And the Joker laughs.

DADDY'S GIRL

It was a solo night job. Bruce had gone to Washington to deliver a lecture and had asked me to stay here in Gotham. My job was nailing the Tomcat, a very sharp jewel thief who was hitting all the wealthy West Side mansions.

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Book: ADVENTURES OF BATMAN
Editor: Martin Greenberg
Authors: Garfield Reeves-Stevens - Masks
William F. Nolan - Daddy's Girl
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THURSDAY April 30th at 7pm: HALFWAY TO HALLOWEEN!!!! - Stories from the Gothic South

"Stories from the Gothic South"

STONE ANGELS

Southern Gothic – Atmospheric, dark, and intimate. The mansions are grey, the manners are impeccable. Stone Angels follows the story of a single mother as she enters the world of illusion, death, and the struggle to live, that exemplifies the dark, strange contradictory nature of the South.

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Book: DEAD ENDS - Stories From The Gothic South

Author: Laura Benedict

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THURSDAY October 24th at 7pm: ONE DARK HALLOWS EVE

"soon it will be the hour of the Pumpkin Men"

ONE DARK HALLOWS EVE 

Something stirs in the lake by his house, the dead leaves beneath this shoes crunch like bones, and even the Blackberry Brambles seem to twitch when he's not looking. Owen begins to wonder if perhaps Gorak is lurking somewhere nearby, but things get a lot worse as Owen discovers a terrifying stranger hiding in an abandoned farmhouse. A dark spell is invoked. Old magic, magic that raises a terrifying horde of nightmarish creatures. Book: One Dark Hallow's Eve Author: Eldritch Black

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THURSDAY June 6th at 7pm: THE MIGHTY THOR pt2

"Which home will the mighty Thor fight to save?"

THE MIGHTY THOR pt2

based on Marvel's Motion Picture

After his arrogance and irresponsible behavior ignite an ancient war, the mighty Thor is banished from his home, Asgard, by his father King Odin. Stripped of his powers, and without his mighty hammer, Mjolnir, the mighty warrior is forced to live on Earth among humans. Powerful forces are at work to ensure that Thor's punishment lasts forever and that he never returns to the realm of Asgard...

Book: THOR
Author: Elizabeth Rudnick Based on screenplay by Ashley Edward

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THURSDAY May 30th at 7pm: THE MIGHTY THOR pt1

"Which home will the mighty Thor fight to save?"

THE MIGHTY THOR pt1

based on Marvel's Motion Picture

After his arrogance and irresponsible behavior ignite an ancient war, the mighty Thor is banished from his home, Asgard, by his father King Odin. Stripped of his powers, and without his mighty hammer, Mjolnir, the mighty warrior is forced to live on Earth among humans. Powerful forces are at work to ensure that Thor's punishment lasts forever and that he never returns to the realm of Asgard...

Book: THOR
Author: Elizabeth Rudnick Based on screenplay by Ashley Edward

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THURSDAY April 25th at 7pm: HALLOWE'EN IN APRIL: X-Files - The House On Hickory Hill

"They used to hang witches there"

HALLOWE'EN IN APRIL
X-Files - The House On Hickory Hill

Caledonia & Shandon together!

Arthur Creed moves his family into the House on Hickory Hill in Banewich, Massachusetts to write his next ghost book on the history of this house where a former family was murdered. There are no appearances of anything remotely 'haunted' however, until the youngest daughter Heather wakes in the middle of the night and sees the houses walls bulging and apparently bleeding. She runs to her older sisters room for help, only to find she has been kidnapped, and a ransom note left by Clayton Geech. Clayton Geech who murdered of the former family in the house... but he was executed 40 years earlier!

Book: X-Files: Trust No One
Author: Max Allan Collins

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In SL We are at Fantasy Faire
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