ArtsGroupie presents:
After a sold out runs in 2022 and 2023, when we were featured in the New York Times, ArtsGroupie’s Ghost Stories for Christmas returns to chill the air with a selection of ghost stories for Xmas for our THIRD YEAR through December 2024.
In the tradition of M.R James, Susan Hill and Charles Dickens, we invite you to pull up a chair and engage in one of the oldest festive traditions, sharing a classic ghost story. New material and a traditional classic will be read aloud by local writers John Maguire and David Griffiths.
Tickets for these intimate readings go very fast, so don’t miss out and book today.
For TIS THE SEASON to be terrified!
Now a grown-up, 46-year-old creative director at Arts Groupie, a group that promotes theater and other arts, [John Maguire] wants more people to have that painful pleasure. This year he revived the tradition, popularized during Victorian times, of sharing ghost stories at Christmas. He and other authors read chilling Victorian tales aloud to a quiet, dim library, lit by (electronic) candles.
“Dickens didn’t have the luxury of television,” he said. He still holds a belief that, at a time when green screens can manifest every potential horror, “nothing is more chilling than your own imagination.
Isabella Kwai in The New York Times, December 20th 2023
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Age restriction – Parental Guidance as the pieces will contain supernatural/horror stories.
