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John Patrick Bray

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Routledge Studies in Edward Albee and American Theatre

Jack Gelber: Consider This explores the works of American playwright Jack Gelber (1932–2003), whose groundbreaking, immersive play The Connection (produced by The Living Theatre in 1959) served as the link between the Art Theatre/Beat Generation and the Off-Off-Broadway movement.With The Connection, Gelber provided a Pirandellian framework in which actors playing junkies demonstrated what it was like to wait for a fix. This play forever cemented Gelber’s ...

Playwrights have always demonstrated an incredible adaptability, able to nimbly adjust to new circumstances and media. This was never in greater evidence than during the coronavirus pandemic, when—with venues shuttered and stages darkened—writers and performers across the world scrambled to sustain the art of theater via remote video. Even today, it is clear that the experiences of 2020–21 have dramatically altered the landscape of theatermaking, as artists continually refine and deploy th...

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Best American Short Plays

Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel once said that theater helps us learn how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable with each other. Revolving around the theme of "this is who we are," the one-act plays in this latest edition of the Best American Short Playsseries (now in its ninth decade) explore the thoughtful ways in which playwrights are wrestling to make sense of our world today.The selected plays reflect how we perform our identities (private and public) and ho...

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Dean Adams, John Patrick Bray, Tony Gunn, Boone J. Hopkins, Jae Kyoung Kim, Jacek Mikolajczyk, George Pate, Erin Scheibe, David S. Thompson, Jeff Turner, Chris Woodworth

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Theatre Symposium Series

That theatre is a business remains a truth often ignored by theatre insiders and consumers of the performing arts alike. The essays in Theatre Symposium, Volume 22 explore theatre as a commercial enterprise both historically and as a continuing part of the creation, production, and presentation of contemporary live performance.The eleven contributors to this fascinating collection illuminate many aspects of commercial theatre and how best to examine it. George Pate analyze...

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Josh Malerman, Evans Light, Andrew Lennon, William Meikle, Jason Parent, Ryan C. Thomas, Mark Matthews, Israel Finn, Joanna Koch, John McNee, Patrick Lacey, Paul Michaels, Michael Bray, Lisa Lepovetsky, Espi Kvlt, Billy Chizmar, Monique Youzwa

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In Darkness, Delight

Midnight strikes like an invocation, clock hands joining in prayer to the darkness. After the twelfth chime, there's no escaping the nightmare.Fear reigns supreme.In Darkness, Delight is an original anthology series revealing the many faces of modern horror- shocking and quiet, pulp and literary, cold-hearted and heart-felt, weird tales of spiraling madness alongside full-throttle thrillers. Open these pages and unleash all-new terr...

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Jeff Strand, Evans Light, Andrew Lennon, Josh Malerman, Ray Garton, Mary SanGiovanni, Richard Chizmar, Tim Curran, Chris Motz, Kev Harrison, Mikal Trimm, Mark Cassell, Mason Morgan, Chad Lutzke, Curtis M. Lawson, Eddie Generous, Adam Light, Frank Oreto, Gregor Xane, Kristopher Rufty, Glenn Rolfe

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In Darkness, Delight

Predatory eyes flicker in darkness, a legion of abominations seeking human destruction.Slashing claws and gnashing teeth, hungry for flesh, eager to kill.Clutch onto hope and pray for dawn. Creatures rule the night.In Darkness, Delight is an original anthology series revealing the many faces of modern horror— shocking and quiet, pulp and literary, cold-hearted and heart-felt, weird tales of spiraling madnes...

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Gemma Files

The first horror story collection from the author of Experimental Film, " one of the most powerful and unique voices in weird fiction today" (Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts).These seventeen tales take readers into the uniquely twisted mind of "one of Canada's most promising new horror writers" ( Publishers Weekly). From a live necrophilia show starring reanimated corpses to a confrontation be...

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Mike Allen

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Unseaming

2020 Shirley Jackson Award finalist, Best Story Collection2020 Locus Recommended Reading List, Best Story Collection"From heartbreaking character studies to exercises in Grand Guignol excess, from scalpel-sharp poetry to sledgehammers of blood-soaked prose, Mike Allen displays not only his own considerable range, but the range of the horror genre as well. Aftermath of an Industrial Accident will surprise and delight you at...

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Douglas Clegg

Welcome to the Night Asylum! Come on in -- join the madness, but don't stay after dark. From Bram Stoker Award-winning novelist, Douglas Clegg, come 18 tales of horror and suspense in this revised second edition."Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby, " -- Dean Koontz, NY Times Bestselling author of The Husband, Watchers and Forever Odd.Enter the Night Asylum to meet:Mysterious children surrounded by hou...

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Josh Malerman, Evans Light, Gregor Xane, Jason Parent, Sean Eads, Amber Fallon, Charles Gramlich, Joanna Koch, Curtis M. Lawson, Lisa Lepovetsky, Adam Light, Chad Lutzke, Thomas Vaughn, Joshua Viola, Ian Welke

Halloween horror, dark fiction and suspense short stories.Carve your pumpkins and turn on the porch light, Halloween frights begin with the sound of…Doorbells at Dusk.Doorbells at Dusk is a treasury of brand-new Halloween tales from both modern masters and rising stars of dark fiction, horror and suspense.Halloween has always gone hand-in-hand with horror. The holiday gives many children their firs...

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Mike Allen

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Unseaming

"Nerve-racking anticipation and dread . . . An assemblage of horror tales and somber verses that frighten and fascinate." —Kirkus Reviews"Will appeal to horror fans seeking something fresh." —Publishers Weekly"Mythical, chilling, and visceral . . . Truly a slow burn readers will crave to simmer in."—Ai Jiang, Hugo Award-nominated author of Linghun and I Am AI"Unsettling, perceptive, always s...

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Alan Baxter

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Tales From The Gulp

The Gulp (Tales From The Gulp #1)Strange things happen in The Gulp. The residents have grown used to it.The isolated Australian harbour town of Gulpepper is not like other places. Some maps don't even show it. And only outsiders use the full name. Everyone who lives there calls it The Gulp. The place has a habit of swallowing people.A truck driver thinks the stories about The Gulp are made up to scare him. Until he gets there.Teenage...