Episode 5: Costume Party
Host on Episode 5 | |
 | Paul Holdengräber, the cultural wunderkind whose noted claim to fame as the Director of Public Programs at the prestigious New York Public Library, is making the library an after-dark hot spot for many New Yorkers. Previously, Holdengräber was the founder and director of the Institute for Art and Cultures at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. |
Guests on Episode 5 | |
 | Clive Barker is a contemporary horror/fantasy writer and filmmaker. Born and educated in Liverpool, Barker is best known for his collection of short horror stories included in Books of Blood. He has also received critical and commercial success for his novels Sacrament and Imajica. When Books of Blood was first released in the United States, author Stephen King hailed Clive Barker by saying "I have seen the future of horror, his name is Clive Barker." Barker has also written and directed numerous films including Hellraiser, Nightbreed, and Lord of Illusions. |
 | Peter Straub is an award winning horror fiction author of the critically acclaimed novels Ghost Story, In the Night, Koko, and Lost Boy, Lost Girl among others. Straub is a four-time winner of the Bram Stroker Award for “superior achievement” in horror writing and winner of the highly coveted World Fantasy Award. Straub collaborated and coauthored the novels Blackhouse and Talisman with long-time friend and fellow author Stephen King. |
 | Hampton Fancher is an actor, film producer, and screenwriter best known for his science fiction screenplay Bladerunner. Fancher followed his critical and commercial success of Bladrunner by writing screenplays for The Mighty Quinn starring Denzel Washington and The Minus Man, which he also directed. |
 | Ellen Datlow was the fiction editor of Omni magazine and Omni Online from 1981 through 1998. Datlow has edited numerous original science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies. She was editor of the webzine Event Horizon: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror from 1998 through 1999, and was the editor of Sci Fiction until it ceased publication with its last piece of fiction, December 28, 2005. Datlow has received the World Fantasy Award a record eight times. |
 | Wendy Doniger is a scholar of history of religion and holds doctorates from Harvard University, and the University of Oxford. Doniger is a professor at the University of Chicago where she teaches Hinduism and mythology. Through her research Doniger has explored many taboo subjects including the role masks have played throughout ancient cultures. Doniger has written over 30 books, most notably The Woman Who Pretended to be Who She Was. |
 | Maraleen Manos-Jones is known simply as “The Butterfly Lady”. Manos-Jones is a storyteller and performer who has have been involved with butterflies in many ways, including collecting stories, myths, legends, poems, superstitions and art about the butterfly, with the recurring cross-cultural themes of transformation, love, death and rebirth and spiritual awakening. For more information about The Spirit of Butterflies Tour to Mexico visit: |
 | Jan Albert is a film producer, writer, and critic. Albert's television and radio work has been recognized with two Emmy Awards, a Cable Ace Award and the Armstrong and CPB Awards. From 1981-1995, she hosted Behind the Scenes, a public radio series featuring interviews with film directors, actors, writers and producers. |
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