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Podcasts Off-Ramp
For Halloween, scary stories you've never heard: A spooktacular Off-Ramp
Off-Ramp with John Rabe Hero Image
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Dan Carino
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Episode 14553
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For Halloween, scary stories you've never heard: A spooktacular Off-Ramp

This week, Off-Ramp finds out what’s under the bed when the lights go off. We're bringing back a KPCC In Person event from last year, where we read stories from "In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe," a collection of great old under-appreciated horror stories.

Each room in the Black Magic maze has a different theme – knife throwing, a blind magician doing magic tricks with eyeballs, and a haunted prop room.
Each room in the Black Magic maze has a different theme – knife throwing, a blind magician doing magic tricks with eyeballs, and a haunted prop room.
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Maya Sugarman/KPCC
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This week, Off-Ramp finds out what’s under the bed when the lights go off. Stories from "In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe," a collection of great old under-appreciated horror stories.

The scariest Off-Ramp ever — horror stories in the Forum
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Listen to three short horror stories that rank with Poe's best, and hear John Rabe and literary historian Les Klinger explore horror fiction live at the Crawford Family Forum.
HP Lovecraft: Horrible man, great writer, now collected in annotated edition
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He was a bigot, but scholar Leslie Klinger says he turned that anger and angst into great horror fiction.