Enjoy ghost stories at the library

Culpeper County Library hosts “Phantasmagoria-An Evening of Fantastic Tales for Teens and Adults” Thursday, Oct. 15 7 to 8 p.m.

Professional storyteller, Megan Hicks, presents a program of modern stories that prove the disturbing and unexplainable are very much alive and squirming just below the surface of awareness.  The stories she will tell include:

-Black Tom is about a conjurer who rankles the respectable people in town. When they cook up a fool proof plan to get rid of him, they find that he’s even more of a conjurer than they had dreamed.

-The Dead Man’s Boots is a humorous but gross Scottish tale about a penniless piper who, with the help of a dead man’s boots, manages to get revenge on the farmer who closed the door in his face. But the piper doesn’t escape unscathed, either.

-The Janitor’s Closet — High school students keep disappearing from extracurricular events at their brand new school. Seems the weekend janitor is engaged in extracurricular activities of his own.

-Wizard Clip comes from West Virginia and is based on historically verified events. A hard hearted farmer will not fetch the priest to say last rites over a dying tailor.

The tailor’s shears come back to plague the farmer — first by cutting up his flower beds, then by attacking the chicken house, and then ...