to Pass the Veil

Katessa Harkey 1 story

Summary

A Shakespearean Ghost Story set in three worlds. The play's the thing - and the audience watches along with the reader. A narrative told by Vaudevillians onstage; and by some mysterious effect of All Hallow's Eve transmitted over an old radio to a pair of children listening from an old farmhouse. Death is onstage and death rides abroad, but what is Death without man? Told in narrative and in lyric poetry, a mad and fantastical tale of a Necromancer that summoned the Archangel of Death for the usual business and got more than he bargained for; and a first brush with the same for the children in the audience. Based on a Cabaret short prepared for one night only - and then gone.