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October 17, 2012

Mystery, imagination upcoming at library

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TARBORO — For the fourth Halloween in a row, a chilly wind will blow and rusty hinges will squeak as a door to the dark side opens at Edgecombe County Memorial Library (ECML).

On Friday, Oct. 26, the ECML Friends of the Library will host its annual “Evening of Mystery & Imagination,” a wine and cheese reception to honor the literature of the fantastic. As in the previous years, the centerpiece of the event will be a live performance of a classic short story. While the earlier events featured works by Edgar Allan Poe, this year’s spotlight will fall on a different great American author.

“We’re doing a Ray Bradbury story this time,” said Roman Leary, ECML director and the event’s featured performer. “We thought that it might be interesting to try something a little more contemporary. This particular story, ‘The Town Where No One Got Off,’ was written in 1958, so it has a much more modern feel than the Poe works did.”

“Town” tells the story of an unnamed traveling salesman who decides to make an unscheduled stop in a sleepy village in the Midwest. He soon has cause to regret his decision.

“The protagonist encounters a seemingly friendly old man who, as it turns out, has a pretty dark agenda,” Leary said. “From an acting perspective, the main challenge is to create two characters so distinct that the audience always knows who is speaking, even if it’s not explicitly stated. In that regard, it’s kind of similar to [Poe’s] ‘The Cask of Amontillado,’ the story we did in 2010.”

Leary said that some people might be surprised to find such a story coming from Bradbury’s pen. “People tend to think of him as a science fiction author,” Leary said, “but he was also a very accomplished writer of horror tales. This story is a creepy little slice of deviant psychology. It explores, in a very effective way, the impulses that drive otherwise normal people to commit acts of violence.”

Aside from being a great writer, Bradbury was also an enthusiastic supporter of libraries. In a 2009 interview with the New York Times, Bradbury said, “Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”

Leary said that Bradbury, who died on June 5, was “really one of the giants of American letters. It’s an honor to work with his words.”

Tickets are $10 per person and are available at the ECML. The doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and the performance will begin at 7.

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