Product Description

Welcome to the Theatre!

Got your popcorn and soft drink? Good! Have you turned your cell phones off? Splendid!

Pay no attention to the orderlies strapping you in. It s more for our pleasure than your safety. What you are about to experience will make you squeal, cringe, and by the end, laugh maniacally!

Roy C. Booth, the internationally award-winning playwright who brought us Brian Keene s Terminal: The Play, offers this trilogy of one-act plays to chill your bones, kicked off by a brilliant introduction from Dr. David Beard.

In Death Under the Gaslights, follow three robbers into a house filled with terror. Learn a valuable lesson in Smoking Will Kill You. And in He Who Gets Laughed At Last, see what happens when some people just can t take a joke.

Before the lights dim, we want to thank you for coming. The price was your sanity, but the screams are free.

Cover art by Mark McLaughlin

Product Details

• Published on: 2009-06-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• 63 pages

Customer Reviews

A Tasty Chill for the October Air
From the internationally award-winning playwright who brought Brian Keene's "Terminal" to the stage comes a trilogy of one-act plays perfect for the late October chill. In "Theatre of the Macbre", Roy C. Booth offers chills, thrills, and spots of humor and cynicism as well. Even in one acts, these tales are quick, tasty bites that will leave a shiver under your skin long after you've read them.

In "Smoking Will Kill You", cruel irony deals an appropriate hand to an arrogant, dismissive psychiatrist and his scheming wife. In "He Who Gets Laughed At Last", a pompous comedian with no real talent goes to extreme measures to get a laugh, only to discover the last one is on him...forever. Perhaps the best, most satisfying tale is found in "Death Under Gaslight", where three robbers get more than they bargained for, and a classic, Gothic character plays a pivotal role.

Pick up this collection and enjoy the laughs, screams, and cries...if you dare.