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BAY CREEK
The Miller Conspiracy Strong Language: 5 Blood: 1 Suggested Age: 13+ Get tickets River smugglers and the dark entity that follows them. After his father's sudden disappearance, the last of four generations of smugglers from the river bottoms of Pike County, Illinois contends with his family's legacy of violence and crime. Held by police and under interrogation, he must come face to face with the terrifying entity his ancestors carried over the veil from the other side. Performance Dates (Crane Main Stage):
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CAMP BLUDDE
IK Productions Strong Language: 3 Blood: 5 Suggested Age: 16+ Get tickets Age old traditions, campfire songs, and a Bludde-y good time! An old legend, old money, new blood. This deep in the wilderness, no one can hear you scream. Camp Bludde is a summer camp by and for a wealthy elite class of people. Every ten years, a camper is brought in on a scholarship. But things are not what they seem. When a hooded figure pursues the campers, it’s clear Camp Bludde lives up to its namesake. Performance Dates (Crane Main Stage):
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CURSED OBJECTS
Dolly Who? Productions Strong Language: 2 Blood: 1 Suggested Age: All ages (recommended 13+) Get tickets Handcrafted curses at a steal of a deal. You're invited to an exclusive peek inside the curious world of the Cabinet of Cursed Objects, a vintage shop selling one-of-a-kind, very vexed trinkets owned by the infamous Webb sisters, Millicent and Melody. After the arrival of a mysterious door sends the evening spinning off its hinges, the Webb sisters, their assistant, and a trio of “Cabineteers” are forced to grapple with an unfathomable terror, each other, and themselves. Performance Dates (Crane Studio):
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FAMILIAR
Special When Lit Strong Language: 3 Blood: 3 Suggested Age: 13+ Get tickets Love exists beyond the ninth life. What’s a teen witch without her cat? Rosemary is about to find out. Her beloved familiar may have passed away, but by no means has it passed on. After opening a portal into a shadow realm, Rosemary discovers that only in the dark are you truly able to see. A teen-friendly nightmare from Nissa Nordland, writer of Stabby Stab Stab, Kin and Incarnate. Performance Dates (Crane Main Stage):
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GOSPEL GUS'S GODLY GOOD TIME GET-TOGETHER!
Hot Chocolate Media Strong Language: 5 Blood: 5 Suggested Age: 16+ Get tickets Evangelical kids TV show reunion gone very wrong. Evangelical Kids TV show mascot personality Gospel Gus has passed away. Manna studios is hosting a reunion to help make that…merchandising cash flow. Hot Chocolate Media teams up with Phantom Chorus Theatre to bring this nightmare alive. Performance Dates (Crane Main Stage):
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GUDLUNG
Dangerous Productions Strong Language: 5 Blood: 5 Suggested Age: 16+ Get tickets A family man learns valuable lessons at Christmas dinner. It’s Christmas, and Ted just wants the perfect family holiday. Sure, his wife is under the weather, his kids are cranky, and reality is being torn to shreds by an ancient horror—but, every family has its quirks, right? Luckily, Ted has a new friend with altruistic desires and an endless hunger. Combining Rockwellian sensibilities and Lovecraftian logic, “Gudlung” is sure to be a holiday classic for eons to come. Performance Dates (Crane Main Stage):
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SCRIMSHAW
Rogues Gallery Arts Strong Language: 2 Blood: 4 Suggested Age: 16+ Get tickets Missionaries shelter an insane whaler discovering behind madness lies truth. A pair of married missionaries working in a Pacific whaling village take a mad whaler into their care after he was found floating adrift in the ocean. As they learn about his journey, his experiences and the sea creature he claims to have encountered they also face challenges to their view of the world, their faith and their own sanity. Performance Dates (Crane Studio);
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SONGVERSATIONS: we have been told the veil is thin (OPENING NIGHT ONLY!)
Songversations Strong Language: 4 Blood: 2 Suggested Age: 16+ Get tickets The witches of Songversations perform the TCHF Opening Ceremony on Thursday, October 16 at 6:00PM. Join the witches of Songversations for the Opening Ceremony of the TCHF XIV for a one night only experience of song, ritual and storytelling that honors and celebrates the spooky season as well as our beloved horror community. Songversations was last seen at TCHF in 2023 with We Have Been Told We will Burn and consists of Rhiannon “Mama Faerie” Fiskradatz (also The Alchemist's Bargain with Phantom Chorus Theatre) and Shanan Custer (also Kin and Campfire Stories with Special When Lit and The Wrench with Wheeler in the Sky). We dissent, we resist, we are burned. |
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MADNESS AND BETRAYAL: A GRAND GUIGNOL DOUBLE FEATURE
Silent Scream Productions Strong Language: 1 Blood: 5 Suggested Age: 16+ Get tickets Two historic melodrama one-acts; a gory physical theatre spectacle. Love, mortality, sickness and obsession reign in two gory, tension-filled historical one-act melodramas. A popular 19th c. theatre form credited as the origin of modern horror, Grand-Guignol judged its success by if guests “passed out, threw up, or left”. A physical theatre spectacle of stage combat, gripping suspense, and shocking effects. Performance Dates (Crane Main Stage):
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MURDER. MURDER. MURDER. MURDER.
Love Drunk Life Strong Language: 5 Blood: 3 Suggested Age: 16+ Get tickets Four playwrights, one prompt: crows. A collection of short horror plays tied together by one prompt: crows. Enter into worlds of women transforming into birds, scientists playing God, cannibalism via dino nuggets, and a local DJ who is determined to be the ultimate final girl in an evening of deadly horror. Performance Dates (Crane Main Stage):
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TERMS
Four Humors Strong Language: 5 Blood: 4 Suggested Age: 16+ Get tickets A horror play about insurance. From the people who brought you Rasputin and Harold. Performance Dates (Crane Main Stage):
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THE NEVERLAND: A HORROR FANTASIA
Lady Chamberlain Productions Strong Language: 1 Blood: 2 Suggested Age: All ages Get tickets A Peter Pan-inspired horror fairytale about life and death. By light of day, the Neverland exists only in the imagination. But at night, the wild beasts of the island stalk alarmingly close. Three lost children rely on each other–and a mysterious faun guide known only as Pan–to traverse the island, face down beasts of world myth, and discover the reason they’re on the scariest adventure of their lives. Performance Dates (Crane Main Stage):
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THE LAST MENAGERIE
Melancholics Anonymous Strong Language: 3 Blood: 4 Suggested Age: 16+ Get tickets A zombified parody of The Glass Menagerie -- with more chewing! In this zombified parody of the classic play, The Glass Menagerie, the delusional undead Wingfield family has someone for dinner. Does Laura have the guts to step outside her world of broken baby dolls and eat the man of her dreams? Horror, the way Tennessee Williams intended! Performance Dates (Crane Main Stage):
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THE WALLS
Strike Theater and The Improv Movement Project Strong Language: 5 Blood: 3 Suggested Age: 16+ Get tickets A tale about a bank robbery gone wrong and a safe house that's not safe at all. The Walls is a tale about a bank robbery gone wrong and a safe house that's not safe at all. A dramatic play loaded with tension and movement. The Walls meshes movement, acting and storytelling to present a terrifying experience. The Walls features the talents of Rita Boersma, Sam Landman, Peytie McCandless, Jay Kistler, Mark Benzel, Sean Dillon, the Improv Movement Project. Written and directed by Mike Fotis and presented by Strike Theater and The Improv Movement Project. Performance Dates (Crane Main Stage):
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