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Returning for their 24th consecutive appearance, the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company fills your convention experience with tales of the macabre, guaranteed to chill and inspire your imagination.

Two complete shows!

Friday night, September 3, 7:00PM, Regency VI-VII
Feature Presentation: The House Across the Way by Kelley S. Ceccato.  With special guest violinist Paul Mercer!
When smallpox descends upon the Caudle house, it claims the life of young Hope, a beautiful young girl of ten with blue eyes and auburn hair who played the fiddle and loved to sing.  Years later, when death strikes the nearby Dasher house, a grieving music teacher must find a way to cope with the loss of his father and is aided by Hope's mother and two sisters. With the Caudle sisters pursuing George Dasher and his inheritance, his attention is drawn to the mysterious Caudle house. Who maintains the property?  What of the rumors of a woman in a black dress and bonnet seen in the dead of night?  And who is peering through the windows of the House Across the Way? They say she's a haint.

Also, The Proper Thing To Do by William Alan Ritch and Brad Linaweaver
It was not your typical alien invasion.  No death rays.  No destruction of cities.  The aliens were killing us with kindness!  How do you handle unexpected and unwanted Guests?  What is the proper thing to do?

Sunday night, September 5, 7:00PM, Regency VI-VII
Feature Presentation: At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft, adapted for audio by Brad Strickland.  Music by The Ghosts Project (Paul Mercer and Davis Petterson)!
Master horror writer H. P. Lovecraft was born 120 years ago and today his cult of Cthulhu enthusiasts has spread across the globe, much as he predicted the Great Old Ones themselves would do when the stars were right. Join ARTC as we celebrate the birth of one of our favorite and most popular writers!  In this classic horror story, an old man consents to a radio interview. In that interview a number of terrible truths come out. The truth about an expedition to Antarctica in the 1920's where everyone died horribly. The truth about an attempt to find the expedition's mysterious killers. The truth about a desolate plateau in the heart of a frozen continent. The truth about life and intelligence on the planet Earth. And the truth about the prehistoric horror that still waits lurking — At the Mountains of Madness.

Also, Time and Time Again by H. Beam Piper, adapted for audio by Ron N. Butler
Major Allan Hartley lies in the snow, dying of burns and radiation poisoning.  A victim of the nuclear bomb that destroyed Buffalo, New York in the early days of the Third World War.  He drifts into darkness.  When he awakens he is in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, 1945.  In his childhood home.  In his bedroom.  In his thirteen-year-old body.  He must struggle to retain his sanity as he learns that you can live your life — Time and Time Again.

( Promotional posters for the above shows )