The Roadside Fire

Tonight, we sit by the dying embers to recount old Ammi Pierce's crazy tale, The Colour Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft (1927). A meteor crashes down on a New England farm which brings diseased crops, mutated wildlife and other unspeakable horrors to the rural community of Arkham. Visiting to survey for a new reservoir, the narrator pieces together the truth from the tales in this beloved story from the 20th century's master of cosmic horror.

Tonight, we sit by the dying embers to recount Amelia B. Edwards' timeless ghost story The Phantom Coach (1864). A newly married man, separated from his bride and lost in the moors of England, finds temporary shelter from the cold with an unexpected host. To return to his beloved, he is directed through the snow swept moors to the Old Road, where ready to meet him on his way is a courier of nightmarish visage!

Tonight, we sit by the dying embers to recount Edgar Allan Poe's masterwork, The Raven (1845). A grieving narrator, mourning the loss of a rare and radiant maiden named Lenore, is visited at midnight by a mysterious Raven.