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Death Scene
The much rumored “Theatre of Blood” curse hangs over a university theatre program and its building. An award winning playwright and professor is hired to get the program and the theatre major going again. However, she is murdered in the theatre just before her new play, “Death Must Go On,” now in final rehearsals, can open.
The administration wants to close the theatre out of respect to the murdered professor but the passionate students decide to pull an all-nighter to see that the playwright’s last work debuts on time. The students are sure this is what the professor/playwright would have wanted. They convince the university powers that be to allow this to happen and the students lock themselves in to get everything ready.
Over the night, however, several students meet their own deaths in bizarre, theatrical fashions. Is the curse real and is there a killing ghost within the theatre’s walls?
The administration wants to close the theatre out of respect to the murdered professor but the passionate students decide to pull an all-nighter to see that the playwright’s last work debuts on time. The students are sure this is what the professor/playwright would have wanted. They convince the university powers that be to allow this to happen and the students lock themselves in to get everything ready.
Over the night, however, several students meet their own deaths in bizarre, theatrical fashions. Is the curse real and is there a killing ghost within the theatre’s walls?
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First published January 25, 2013
About the author
Jack Stanley
46 books8 followersJack R. Stanley is an award winning novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. As an officer and combat photographer in Vietnam he was awarded the Bronze Star. Yet he says, “When you’re in a firefight and everybody else on both side have guns while you have a camera --- you get to change your pants a lot.”
After his military service he received both his M.A. and his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in Radio-TV-Film. His doctoral dissertation was on the long running TV series GUNSMOKE. Stanley also received two of Michigan¹s most prestigious creative writing awards
Still married to his gifted high school sweetheart, Stanley spent 30 years teaching Theatre-TV-Film in deep-south Texas at The University of Texas-Pan American. He directed for stage at The University Theatre, produced and directed fifteen student staffed, cast, and crewed feature film --- writing most of the original screenplays. A few of his credits are available on IMDB.com.
He now lives in the Texas Panhandle where he writes his fiction and runs his blog, www.TheFictionWritersNotebook.com . His webpage is www.jackrstanley.com .
After his military service he received both his M.A. and his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in Radio-TV-Film. His doctoral dissertation was on the long running TV series GUNSMOKE. Stanley also received two of Michigan¹s most prestigious creative writing awards
Still married to his gifted high school sweetheart, Stanley spent 30 years teaching Theatre-TV-Film in deep-south Texas at The University of Texas-Pan American. He directed for stage at The University Theatre, produced and directed fifteen student staffed, cast, and crewed feature film --- writing most of the original screenplays. A few of his credits are available on IMDB.com.
He now lives in the Texas Panhandle where he writes his fiction and runs his blog, www.TheFictionWritersNotebook.com . His webpage is www.jackrstanley.com .
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