Tomes of Terror II
Nov. 2nd, 2007 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidMonday I succumbed to all the advertising and went to.... *cue scary music* Tomes of Terror II, put on by the Post Meridian Radio Players.
It was not so spooky as I'd imagined, but still fun. I particularly liked the literary interludes by the librarian, a book tamer in a menagerie of all sorts of volumes, before and after the episode of Our Miss Brooks (beyond silly), then Carmilla (much more eerie, though the end seemed to fade away), and The Stone Ship (nautical terror! made more difficult to understand due to extreme accents). And of course, seeing the sound effects done feels incredibly retro.
Somehow I'd expected more... something. Not sure what, but having seen the radio shows at Arisia, these felt less on Halloween target than those did their cheesy science fiction targets. And having two intermissions felt too much, though I could see how it was necessary to allow changeover between shows.
It was not so spooky as I'd imagined, but still fun. I particularly liked the literary interludes by the librarian, a book tamer in a menagerie of all sorts of volumes, before and after the episode of Our Miss Brooks (beyond silly), then Carmilla (much more eerie, though the end seemed to fade away), and The Stone Ship (nautical terror! made more difficult to understand due to extreme accents). And of course, seeing the sound effects done feels incredibly retro.
Somehow I'd expected more... something. Not sure what, but having seen the radio shows at Arisia, these felt less on Halloween target than those did their cheesy science fiction targets. And having two intermissions felt too much, though I could see how it was necessary to allow changeover between shows.