Live Poe Events This Halloween!

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Photo Credit: Sacramento Public Library/Saclibrary.org

I told you I would have a review of the new Sleepy Hollow TV series but I only have a rough draft at this time. I wasn’t able to write it until late this evening and I’ve been going to bed too late on Saturday nights/early Sunday mornings which often interferes with my waking hours during the week when I have to be up much earlier. I’ll have the review for you (revised and edited) either Monday or Tuesday of the coming week. However, I’ll leave you with a few updates and reminders for now.

To start, if you’re in the Sacramento area, celebrate the boo-l-tide carol this Halloween season with several Poe-related events going on all month. This series of events, all at the Sacramento Central Library, started Wednesday with the Sacramento Public Library’s kick-off of their book, The Slender Poe, a selection of Edgar Allen Poe’s stories and poems. Yours truly attended the first half of this reading which started with a locally made film adaptation of “Ligeia” which was a top winner of last month’s Sacramento International Film Festival’s Poe short film awards and rightfully so! I didn’t see all the movies of the of the film fest’s Poe night, but of what I did see this one was the best. It’s a modern day telling of the story with elements of film noir.

You can purchase it on a DVD that contains the rest of the short films from the Poe night. To find out how, visit Capital Film Arts Alliance’swebsite

Sunday the 6th October will be a discussion and reading of “The Raven” at 2 p.m. Friday the 18^th October at 6 p.m. is the “Haunted Stacks” which consists of an after-hours tour of the library and a screening of a classic Poe film adaptation on a big screen. Next Sunday the 20^th October, 2 p.m., is a discussion about Poe’s influence on the detective, mystery and crime genres of fiction.  The 29^th October at 6:30 p.m. is the “One Book Poe Finale”, which consists of selected readings by local Sacramento area poets accompanied to the music of Poe’s 19^th century era. For more details on these events, visit the Sacramento PublicLibrary’s web page .

Again, you can purchase my new book of short fiction, The Fool’s Illusion, at Amazon on Kindle and in print. Normally the print version costs $9.95, but Amazon is selling it for $8.96 as of the writing of this post. This offer may not last long so you may want to purchase now. The electronic version is only 99 cents, a great deal that may also not last long.

Until next time and take scare . . .