{"id":2741,"date":"2010-03-24T23:23:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T23:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2023-04-18T23:08:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T23:08:29","slug":"fray-cafe-the-greatest-horror-story-ever-written","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/03\/fray-cafe-the-greatest-horror-story-ever-written\/","title":{"rendered":"Fray Cafe: The Greatest Horror Story Ever Written"},"content":{"rendered":"

To answer the most popular question on the night, \u201cyes, it is real.\u201d Here\u2019s the Amazon link for The Secret Room<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not often that I put up video of my stage performances online (I rarely mention them, truth be told), but Fray Cafe at SXSW every year is something that I look forward to. It\u2019s a chance to tell a real story, and I spend time thinking about what I can do. This year was a bit more light-hearted, as I decided to talk about one of the stories that my daughters read at school.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the greatest horror story ever written.<\/p>\n

So by way of H.P. Lovecraft, Niki Lauda, Stephen King and Alias Smith and Jones (a rather meandering route, it\u2019s one of those<\/em> stories), here\u2019s my reading of \u201cThe Secret Room\u201d from this year\u2019s Fray Cafe.<\/p>\n

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As you can tell, we never did a run through to sort the lighting levels and cues, but like Fray it\u2019s rough, ready, and true to life. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

PS: It’s only after editing the video that I saw the running time, and I went waaaaay over the traditional ten minute running time of a Fray story. Sorry.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To answer the most popular question on the night, \u201cyes, it is real.\u201d Here\u2019s the Amazon link for The Secret Room It\u2019s not often that I put up video of my stage performances online (I rarely mention them, truth be told), but Fray Cafe at SXSW every year is something that I look forward to. It\u2019s a chance to tell a real story, and I spend time thinking about what I can do. This year was a bit more light-hearted, as I decided to talk about one of the stories that my daughters read at school. It\u2019s the greatest horror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1574,22,2,3,38],"tags":[1055,1676,1683,1680,1681,1682,86,1679],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-conferences","category-conferences","category-family","category-personal-thoughts-and-messages","category-sxsw","tag-cthulhu","tag-fray","tag-fray-cafe","tag-h-p-lovecraft","tag-horror","tag-stephen-king","tag-sxsw","tag-the-secret-room","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-Id","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65599,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions\/65599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}