hauntings: moratorium

there is unerring wisdom in the quick unloading of devalued candy after the holidays have passed on by.  it’s not that the soft golden peeps, heart-encased bonbons or candied cornses are, in any way, substandard;  just woefully passé.  and so it is that i find my ghoulish intents exorcised.  for now i will shelve them to gather the requisite gray dust and cobwebs, suitably rotted to trot out next we’en.

however, i did compile a daemonic list of plays that offered up some terrifying thrills.  it’s a shortish list.  the theme seems to be rather uncommon currency in the history of drama (christmas plays i could paper my apartment in):

•    The Duchess Of Malfi by John Webster, 1613
  ..and other Jacobean revenge delights..
• The Emperor Jones by Eugene O’Neill, 1920   
  O’Neill’s expressionistic early success.. visions in the jungle..

• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street by Stephen Sondheim/Hugh Wheeler, 1979
  ..attend the tale..
• The Woman In Black adapted by Stephen Mallatratt, 1987  
  a great ghost story adapted from Susan Hill’s 1983 novel
•    The Weir by Conor McPherson, 1997
  ghost stories spun in an out-of-the-way Irish pub

these are the best i can do.  surely someone out there can supply some overlooked terrors?