Drama After Dark: A Night of the Macabre with Poe and Gorey

The rolling, manicured grounds of the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens are a beautiful enough spectacle during the day, but the idea of wandering through them in the moonlight as actors perform stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Edward Gorey brings in a factor not present during the daylight hours: Darkness.

In this night of haunting tales it becomes another character in the telling, one that surrounds and tempts you into it. Intended for ages 10 and up, I don’t think I would have any problem getting seriously spooked at this event. Hearing about it reminds me of when I was kid, and how my uncle would gather me and my cousins on the back porch at night and scare the daylights out of us with his improvised ghost stories.

More than a dozen haunting tales by Edgar Allan Poe and Edward Gorey will be enacted throughout the moon-lit grounds by the actors of the Guild of St. George; including The Pit and the Pendulum, The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, and The Insect God.

Saturday October 20th 6:30 to 10 PM. Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens, San Marino. Members $25, non-members $30; ages 10 to adult. (And here’s the good part,) May be too intense for young children. Registration: 626-405-2128.