Selected Shorts: Hauntings for Halloween

Specials | Oct 26, 2020

Kate Burton presents unusual chillers for Halloween through Day of the Dead/Feast of All Souls. Edgar Allan Poe is haunted by a childhood memory in Russell Banks’ “The Caul,” performed by Richard Masur. Poe’s eerie “The Raven” is performed by Rene Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, Isaiah Sheffer, and Harris Yulin. A dying emperor tries to communicate in “An Imperial Message,” by Franz Kafka, performed by Kaneza Schaal. And Agatha Christie tells a ghost story in “The Lamp,” performed by Rita Wolf.

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(Note - this program originally aired in 2019)

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