Rolling Darkness Revue rolling into Nipissing

With Halloween lurking in the shadows at month’s end, Nipissing University is getting an early jump on the ghosts and ghouls by hosting the Rolling Darkness Revue, October 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Weaver Auditorium (B200).

The Rolling Darkness Revue is a travelling fraternity of some of horror fiction’s premier talents, who present an evening of new supernatural stories in celebration of the genre’s favourite holiday.  It’s a multi-media experience incorporating theatrical lighting and live music to illuminate and enhance the Halloween tradition of ghost story readings.

Founded in 2004 by Dennis Etchison, Glen Hirshberg, and Peter Atkins, the Revue has performed in bookstores, libraries, theatres, and parking lots and has received glowing notices from the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition.

The Rolling Darkness Revue features Peter Atkins, and Glen Hirshberg.  Atkins is the author of Morningstar, Big Thunder, Moontown, and the movies Wishmaster and Hellraiser II-IV. Hirshenberg is the award-winning author of The Two Sams, The Snowman’s Children, and American Morons.

Clive Barker has said that “Atkins is a brilliant supplier of shudders and splendors.”  The Los Angeles Times writes that Hirshenberg’s stories are “as unsettling as they are scary, as disturbing as they are profound.