Some Words With a Mummy, Oct 19

Sat, Oct 19, 7pm at Mummy head - toothySt John’s University, 300 Howard Ave, SINY 10301  (In Spellman Hall’s Black Box Theatre)  Spellman Hall is to your immediate right as you come up the entry road from Howard Avenue.  Free & open to the public.

Join popular St John’s Professor Ed Fiorelli as we enjoy some 19th century science fiction, with light refreshments.  Poe was a pioneer of the science fiction form.  OutLOUD will host readings of two Poe stories that are witty examples of proto science fiction…

Poe’s wry story,  Some Words With a Mummy  – chronicles an unusual interview. Rumor has it that a mummy will be on the guest list when OutLOUD features this story.

We’ll read another of Poe’s sci-fi short stories, Three Sundays In a Week.  Did Poe discover time travel?  This story inspired Jules Verne’s Around the World In 80 Days!  Verne idolized Poe, and counted Poe among his literary heroes and inspirations.

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