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In the midst of an affordable housing crisis, everyone from individuals to municipalities are trying to think outside the box in search of a solution. One specific housing development is breaking ground in Midland for the local Metis community. Cindi Rye is the Director of Housing and Infrastructure for the Métis Nation of Ontario, the organization behind the project. She spoke with us about the plans for the development. A cemetery is a place of mourning, and they are often used as inspiration for halloween. But these somber spaces can also be a well of information about local history. This venture was good enough for Cornwall's Stuart Lyall Manson to write not one but two books about it. He is the author of the Sacred Ground, and spoke to us about his second volume of the series Scary movie connoisseur Barry Yuen runs a vintage movie poster exhibit at the Screening Room in Kingston. He spoke to us about his passion for films and the plans he had for his exhibit coming up to halloween.
In the 1970 episode, "Scrooge Gets An Oscar," from The Odd Couple's first season, we get a hilarious take on the world's most famous ghost story. I'm joined by special friends, Anthony D. P. Mann and Barry Yuen for some fun banter about everyone's favorite mispaired friends. Look for Anthony D.P. Mann's own A CHRISTMAS CAROL audio production, now available from Bleak December and Brilliance Audio!
It's the TV TERROR Season One grand finale... Episode 24: Dan Curtis' DRACULA (1973)! Jack Palance wears the cape and Dan Curtis directs from a script by Richard Matheson. Visiting with me in the great green living room are special guests, Anthony D. P. Mann and Barry Yuen, both highly qualified to plumb the depths of one of the finest productions of its kind. Grab a wooden stake and join us, why don't you....
With her mysterious smoky eyes, aquiline features and distinct diction, Barbara Steele was the reigning first woman of gothic horror cinema throughout the 1960s. From her first outing on the subject - Mario Bava's definitive Black Sunday - to her most recent headlining triumph in The Butterfly Room, Barbara Steele brings a timeless (and sinister) combination of beauty, elegance and intelligence to her portrayals of witches, vixens, demented murderesses and damsels in distress... Barry Yuen joins Tony for this retrospective of true genre legend.
Tonight on Night Fright... Haunted Kingston. Are there ghosts in Kingston's famed maximum security prison (that once housed the criminally disturbed)? Have residents seen and heard apparitions in the catacombs beneath Kingston's Old Fort Henry? All this, and personal ghost stories shared by the hosts of the Horror etc podcast, and actor Barry Yuen. Settle in, relax and get ready to be spooked out...