Imagine a moonlit night, the towering pines surrounding Mount Hope Mansion cast a mysterious shadow upon the sandstone fortress. An expressionless servant invites you inside. The year is 1849. While walking one night through the dark and dreary streets of Baltimore, Mr. Edgar Allan Poe falls into a rabid coma and wakes to find himself, along with a handful of his most bizarre characters, in an Asylum in the South of France.

The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether - An unwitting visitor spends the night in an Asylum, where it soon becomes apparent that the patients have taken over, led by the former superintendent, who is now quite mad! Performed in Mount Hope’s trademark interactive style, wherein willing audience members get into the "spirit".

The Tell Tale Heart - Watch spellbound as a madman reveals his cold- blooded crime and the paranoid delusions that led to his downfall.

Berenice - A vivacious young woman becomes mysteriously ill until the only part of her remaining healthy is her teeth which her trance-prone cousin, Egaeus, begins to covet… on her deathbed… after her death.

PLUS! The Raven and Other Poems

October 31 - November 15, 2008