Mark Z. Danielewski: The Fifty Year Sword October 31, 2012

Featuring Christopher O'Riley

Timed with the Pantheon Books release of The Fifty Year Sword this October, celebrated author Mark Z. Danielewski (House of Leaves) once again casts his wicked spell on Halloween: an eerie theatrical presentation of his ghost story for grown-ups. Christopher O’Riley, concert pianist and host of NPR’s From The Top, composes and performs music for an evening of harrowing visuals, special guests and maybe even a gravedigger. The tale unfolds in East Texas, where a local seamstress named Chintana finds herself responsible for five orphans who are not only captivated by a storyteller’s tale of vengeance, but by the long black box he sets before them. As midnight approaches, the box is opened, a fateful dare is made, and the children as well as Chintana come face to face with the consequences of a malice retold and now foretold.

Performance Times
7:30PM & 9:30PM

Official Website: http://www.redcat.org/event/mark-z-danielewski