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SUMMARY:Fright Night
LOCATION:Milton H. Latter Memorial Library\nMilton H. Latter Memorial Libr
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DESCRIPTION:Local authors Alex Jennings\, Ariadne Blayde\, and Marita Woyw
 od Crandle read their most macabre manuscripts at this special Halloween e
 vent. Costumes encouraged. Light refreshments served.\n.\nhttps://neworlea
 ns.libnet.info/event/11733447
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Dress up in your in your most ghoulish gar
 b and get into the Halloween spirit at this spooky storytelling event feat
 uring three local authors and two-sentence horror stories written by Libra
 ry patrons. <a href="https://nolalibrary.librariescreate.com/twosentencest
 ories">Submit your two-sentence story via Biblioboard.</a></p>\n<p>Enjoy c
 reepy curiosities including the following:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Readings of terr
 ifying tales by Alex Jennings\, Ariadne Blayde\, and Marita Woywod Crandle
 </li>\n<li>Raffle with a chance to win a deck of Tarot cards</li>\n<li>Dev
 ilish delicacies</li>\n<li>Book sale and signing with the authors</li>\n</
 ul>\n<p>Alex Jennings&nbsp\;is a writer\, editor\, teacher\, and poet. He 
 is the Program Director of DreamFoundry&rsquo\;s Con or Bust and pens a re
 gular speculative poetry review column in&nbsp\;<em>The Magazine of Fantas
 y &amp\; Science Fiction</em>&nbsp\;called &ldquo\;Chapter and Verse.&rdqu
 o\; His writing has appeared in&nbsp\;<em>Fantastic Stories of the Imagina
 tion\,&nbsp\;Electric Velocipede</em>\,<em> Uncanny Magazine</em>\,<em> Fa
 ntasy Magazine\, New Suns</em>\, and&nbsp\;<em>Current Affairs</em>\, amon
 g others. His debut novel\,&nbsp\;<em>The Ballad of Perilous Graves</em>\,
  is set in a fantastical version of New Orleans in which a battle for the 
 city's soul brews between two young mages\, a vengeful wraith\, and one po
 werful song.</p>\n<p>Ariadne Blayde&nbsp\;is a playwright and fiction writ
 er. Her play &ldquo\;The Other Room&rdquo\; won the VSA Playwright Discove
 ry Award and has been produced hundreds of times around the world. Her pla
 ys have been shortlisted by Lark Playwright&rsquo\;s Week\, The Tennessee 
 Williams Festival\, and more\, and her fiction has been published in <em>P
 arhelion Literary Magazine</em>\, the <em>Fountain Magazine</em>\, and var
 ious anthologies. <em>Ash Tuesday</em>\, her debut novel\, weaves French Q
 uarter folklore with with lives of the eccentric tour guides who tell thos
 e stories for a living. Ariadne moonlights as a ghost tour guide and jazz 
 singer in New Orleans.</p>\n<p>Marita Woywod Crandle has been writing and 
 storytelling since she was a little girl. She has always had a fancy for t
 he magical side of life\, making New Orleans a perfect match for this Germ
 an transplant. Her books include&nbsp\;<em>New Orleans Vampires: History a
 nd Legend</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>Johnny White&rsquo\;s Sports Bar</em>\, and <em
 >Josie Arlington&rsquo\;s Storyville: The Life and Times of a New Orleans 
 Madam</em>. Her newest book\,&nbsp\;<em>Mosquito &ndash\; Southern Vampire
 s</em>\, which was originally released one chapter at a time as a Penny Dr
 eadful\, is a melting pot of the supernatural.</p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by th
 e <a href="https://friendsnola.org/">Friends of the New Orleans Public Lib
 rary</a>.</em></p>\nhttps://neworleans.libnet.info/event/11733447
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