Product Description
by Harlan Ellison (Author), Robert Armin (Author)
A stage adaptation of short stories by award-winning fantasist Harlan Ellison (including "Shatterday" and "Paladin of the Lost Hour") written by playwright Robert Armin. Welcome to Harlan Ellison's MORTAL DREADS: six extraordinary tales that tear through the fabric of space and time and reveal the gaping hole which opens onto Some Other Place... If you find these dark dreams troubling, maybe it's because they're your dreams A weary traveler on the Pacific Coast Highway seeks shelter from a torrential rain and discovers a bizarre little bookshop where even the most casual browser can find exactly what he or she is looking for. A young man's late night hot dog run is interrupted by a stranger's tragically comic discourse on love and loss. While attending a literary cocktail party, a writer grudgingly strikes up a conversation with a charming old man who may have an unexpected impact on his life. A public relations hack is forced to confront his own shabby existence in a life-altering telephone conversation with himself. A bookstore saleswoman is confronted by an angry and pugnacious writer who demands justice for the woebegone victims of the New York Literary Establishment. A Vietnam vet rescues an old man from a mugging and discovers the secret of a most unusual pocket watch.
Author Biography
Robert Armin is a New York novelist, playwright and theater director. His first novel, "The Flash of Midnight" was published in 2011 and earned Honorable Mention at the London Book Festival. He has written and/or directed more than a dozen plays and musicals including "What Makes Sammy Run?," "Harlan Ellison's Mortal Dreads," "Sheva, the Benevolent," "Madly in Love," "The Broadway Musicals of 1964," "The Male Animal," "Side By Side By Seymour Glick" and "Say, Darling." In 2007, he served as Artistic Director of the Blairstown Theater Festival in Blairstown, New Jersey where his play, "Letters From the Inside," was selected by the Star-Ledger as one of the five best new plays of the 2006/2007 New Jersey theater season. In 2004, he was honored by the Women's Conference Committee of the Screen Actor's Guild and the Crime Victims Treatment Center at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City for his ground-breaking work as the first man in the Hospital's rape crisis volunteer advocate program.
