House of Know: Mostly Ghostly Holiday Extravaganza!
Schedule
Sun, 15 Dec, 2024 at 05:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Flying Fox Tavern | Maspeth, NY
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It’s time for another pulse-pounding, edge-of-your-seat, high-fun-ated HOUSE OF KNOW! Victorian Christmas Ghosts: Tales to Scare the Dickens Out of You
By Tenebrous Kate
From folktale figures like krampus to seasonal slashers like Silent Night Deadly Night, horror and winter holidays go hand in hand. Victorian England had its own source of Christmas chills in the form of ghost stories. What better way to mark the holiday than with tales of duplicity, theft, incest, and murder most foul! Hide your cursed ancestral portraits and guard your crinolines from your fire-happy mother-in-law as we journey through some notably twisted yuletide offerings that shocked and titillated our ancestors.
But wait! There’s more…
Our Mortal Waltz: The Dance of Death Across Centuries
By Allison C. Meier
The sight of a skeletal corpse rarely inspires a rollicking jig. Yet for more than half a millennium, the dance of death in European visual art has imagined a tango between the quick and the dead. Allison C. Meier tracks the motif’s evolution across history, discovering how — through times of disease, war, and economic inequality — printmaking offered a means to both critique social ills and reflect upon new forms of human devastation.
And just who ARE these people?!
Tenebrous Kate is a New Jersey-based writer and artist whose work explores her longstanding fascination with all things dark, fantastical, and forbidden. She is the cohost of the literary podcast Bad Books for Bad People. https://www.tenebrouskate.com/
Allison C. Meier is the author of Grave (2023, Bloomsbury) and moonlights as a cemetery tour guide. She is the editor of Fine Books & Collections magazine. https://allisoncmeier.com/
#houseofknow is every third Sunday of the month from 5-8pm at #flyingfoxtavern
Admission is free, tips are welcome! #stuffyourfacefeedyourmind
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Where is it happening?
Flying Fox Tavern, 678 Woodward Avenue,New York,NY,United States, MaspethEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
