RA for All Roadshow Visits the Haunted Library at Glen Ellyn Public Library

After a busy week at ILA, I am ending the week at a Haunted Library! Sound perfect if you ask me. Here are the details.

Glen Ellyn Public library is in the western suburbs of Chicago. A few months ago, they approached me to help them create a Haunted Library. I got the Chicagoland Chapter of the HWA involved and what you see below is being offered to anyone who wants to come for free. It will be a theatrical event, with students from the local high school [ironically, one of my local high school's biggest sports rivals] reenacting scenes from the author's books. It was a fun process to watch the authors figure out what scenes from their works they wanted staged.

I will be there as a tour guide and cannot wait to take people through. Here is the link for more information and the program description is below but please note ALL are welcome. All ages, people from all communities, everyone:

Haunted Library

Friday, October 21, 2022

6:00pm - 8:00pm

The library will close early on Friday, October 21 at 3 pm and re-open at 6 pm transformed into two floors of bone-chilling hauntings!In the Youth Department, find family-friendly frights, participate in a scavenger hunt, and listen to not-so-scary stories like The Ghosts Went Floating read aloud.

In the North and South meeting rooms, Chicagoland authors Michael Allen Rose, Daniel Kraus (The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch), Damian Serbu (The Vampire’s Angel), Cynthia Pelayo (Children of Chicago), and John Everson (The House by the Cemetery) will talk horror and have books available for purchase.

On the 2nd floor, Glenbard West Theatre students and library staff will enact excerpts from horror stories. Please note that there will be flashing lights and dry ice in use on the 2nd floor.

Visit the library after hours, if you dare!