You’re hiking through the darker, haunted part of the woods that your parents had always forbidden you to explore. A few miles in, the fog is much thicker and you are tempted to crawl onto a layer and take a nap.

You continue, though, and eventually come across some castle ruins. All that stand are moldy brick walls marking the perimeter.

You step closer and find a single skull protruding from the soft earth. Vines have sprouted from its eyes and nose; from between the teeth and the cracks in its cranium. Each one looks a little bit different: some are beautiful, some grotesque, some humorous. Some are green and thriving with blossoms, while others appear dead, but are still strong.

You kneel for a closer look, and you can hear them whispering to you. They are each eager to share a story. You listen awhile, entertained but feeling your sanity slip away.

Realizing this, you try to stand but rotted hands reach from the soil and pull you back.  You aren’t going anywhere.

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Bemidji native Roy C. Booth (of Theatre of the Macabre) announces that the English-speaking theatre troupe “Ostensibles e.V.“ from Osnabrueck, Germany will be producing his award-winning “Cafe a la Ionesco” (www.originalworksonline.com) for three performances in June as part of their annual One-Act Festival.

The troupe’s origins can be traced back to the British soldiers stationed in Osnabrueck following WWII, who organized themselves in a theater club, which was called “OADS (Osnabrueck Amateur Dramatic Society)” in the end. When in 2008 all soldiers were withdrawn from Osnabrueck and the barracks were closed, a few civilians already attached to the group took it upon themselves to keep English-speaking theater alive in their town, and so the Ostensibles were formed.

The comedy is set in an Ionesco-themed cafe where the waiter has identity problems, the calamari is far, far too fresh, and the presentation of the bill is often far more than what one bargains for, especially if you are on a date. The play debuted at the Beaux Arts Ballroom at Bemidji State University in 1999 and has since been performed numerous times, including in Poland. The production will be Booth’s third in Germany. Booth is the author of 49 published plays, amongst other things, and is the owner/manager of Roy’s Comics and Games of Downtown Bemidji.

Steven E. Wedel interviewed Roy C. Booth for Horror World and it’s a great read!

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And be sure to pick up his book, Theatre of the Macabre.

Daniel I. Russell, one of our guest authors in Tabloid Terrors 3: Alien Perverts Wrecked My Pubes, and author of a recently signed title with us, Come Into Darkness, was interviewed recently by Sophie Playle.

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Shroud Magazine put out a “20 Recommended Reads List” and Michele Lee’s Rot is there along with so many other great authors like Brian Keene, Tom Piccirilli, Tim Lebbon, Ray Garton, Edward Lee, and more!

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Roy C. Booth, author of Theatre of the Macabre, is having his 48th play published! Congratulations, Roy!

Bemidji native and resident Roy C. Booth announces that his award-winning one-act comedy, Rodrigo Gets the Postmodern Blues, will be published in 2010 by Heuer Publishing of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The play will then become Booth’s 48th to be published. The play originated in the Black Box Theatre at Bemidji State University in the spring of 1997, and was later produced years later in revised form in Seattle, Lexington, KY, and later at various venues in Poland starting in 2003. In 2006 Booth revised the script a third time and entered it into a national playwrighting contest sponsored by Stepping Stone Entertainment of Kentucky where it won Best One-Act Comedy in 2007 and earned another full production in 2008. The play is famous in certain fringe festival circles for featuring a mad scientist, an unhinged Wisconsin cheese salesman, aliens, baseball pitching five-legged mutated frogs, film agents, an epic kaiju battle, Godzilla performing Shakespeare, and other quirky elements Heuer editor Geri Albrecht calls the play “a whopping home run,” one that Heuer would be “more than honored to have in our catalog.” Booth already has five plays pubished with Heuer, including an award-winning adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s famous short story, The Rocking-Horse Winner.

Booth also received the 640th known production of his work this weekend, two performances of The Glover’s Mange Cure Caper, co-written with Louise Bottrell, at the Madison High School in Rexburg, Idaho. Booth is a Central Lakes College and Bemidji State University graduate with a BA in English/Speech-Theatre and an MA in English with an emphasis in creative writing, and is the owner/operator of Roy’s Comics & Games of Downtown Bemidji where copies of his plays and books can be obtained as well as at Bookworld.

Thanks to Scott Colbert for offering a great review of Rich Ristow’s Into the Cruel Sea.

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