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Off-Ramp

The scariest Off-Ramp ever — horror stories in the Forum

Don't go inside this house. Just ... don't.
Don't go inside this house. Just ... don't.
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About the Show

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting

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The scariest Off-Ramp ever — horror stories in the Forum

In a show recorded live at the Crawford Family Forum, we’ll hear three of the scariest horror stories written in the last couple centuries -- "Desiree's Baby," "The Easter Egg," and "The Leather Funnel."

Our readers are Obie- and Tony-winner L-Scott Caldwell; Tom Wright, from "Granite Flats" and "Grimm;" and composer, lyricist, and singer Van Dyke Parks.

And John is joined onstage by literary historian Les Klinger, editor of the new collection of horror stories, “In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror 1816-1914.”