8 DAYS OUT WEDNESDAY OCT. 31 Festivals & Events EAGLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT. HAUNTED WOODS—$10, $6 ages 5-12, FREE for ages 4 and younger. Merrill Park, 637 E. Shore Drive, Eagle River Development, Eagle.
Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org. THE WOMAN IN BLACK—Prepare to be scared out of your wits at this Company of Fools’ production based on Susan Hill’s 1983 novel 7 p.m. $10-$30. Liberty Theatre, 110 N. Main St., Hailey, 208-578-9122, companyoffools.org.
Kids & Teens HALLOWEEN AT THE CHILDREN’S HOME—Staff and volunteers will put on their best kidfriendly scary costumes and greet trick-or-treaters on the porch. 4-6 p.m. FREE. The Children’s Home Society, 740 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-343-7813, childrenshomesociety.com.
THE FARMSTEAD 2012—4-9 p.m. The Farmstead, 1020 S. Rackham Way, Meridian, 208922-5678, farmsteadfestival. com. FREAKY FOREST—8-10 p.m. Donations appreciated. 1800 W. Hubbard Road, near the corner of Hubbard and Linder roads, Kuna. HARVEST FESTIVAL—Everyone is welcome at this harvest festival featuring safe family fun, games, candy, soup, bread, hot cocoa and coffee. 7-9 p.m. FREE. Silver Sage Baptist Church, 5858 S. Maple Grove Road, Boise, 208-362-0309, silversagebc.com. HAUNTED WORLD—Dusk-10 p.m. $20, FREE for children younger than 5. Hauntedworld. org. LIQUID HALLOWEEN BASH— Featuring music by Jupiter Holiday, DJ Psycache and DJ Ron Groove. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com. MACABRE MASQUERADE—Partake in the Come As You Aren’t costume contest, featuring more than $100 in cash and prizes. 8 p.m. $5. Humpin’ Hannah’s, 621 Main St., Boise, 208-345-7557. ROCKY HORROR HALLOWEEN—This Halloween party features the music of Pilot Error. 10 p.m. $7. Reef, 105 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-287-9200, reefboise.com. SCARECROW STROLL—Scope out a slew of scarecrows, which deck out the garden through the month of October. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.
On Stage A HORRIFIC PUPPET AFFAIR— HomeGrown Theater and Evil Wine present three 20-minute gruesome, scary, horrific and hilarious puppet shows, written by locals Janessa Nichole White, Josh Gross and Chad Shohet. Live music to follow. 9 p.m. $5. The Red Room Tavern, 1519 W. Main St., Boise, 208-331-0956, redroomboise.com. THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW— Go along with Brad and Janet on a strange adventure with this cult classic that features plenty of adult humor, props and the “Time Warp.” Call Stagecoach Theatre up to one hour prior to show time to reserve your tickets. 7:30 p.m. $20. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com. TIGERS BE STILL—When Sherry’s art therapy degree doesn’t yield the job of her dreams, she moves back in with her mother. 8 p.m. $10-$15.
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REVIEW/LIT HAUNTINGS FROM THE SNAKE RIVER PLAIN Ghost stories seem most abundant in the backcountry, places already physically haunted by derelict farm machinery and the skeletal remains of residences past. Those structures radiate the energy of what once was, firing the imagination about what may remain. Idaho, a reserve of derelict mining camps and pioneer ghost towns, is the perfect setting for such stories, and a recently published book, Hauntings From the Snake River Plain, collects original stories, essays and poetry about those places in one volume. Released in August by Twin Falls-based The Other Bunch Press, the collection anthologizes 27 Idaho writers such as Elaine Ambrose, Bonnie Dodge and Boise Weekly’s Bill Cope. As with many things hyper-local, objective quality sometimes takes a backseat to regional celebration. Some stories could definitely have used that time-tested editor’s note: show, don’t tell. A story called “Lost Souls of the Lost Cave,” by Andrew W. Black, takes readers through an exploration of a cave, narrated with the verbose and melodramatic literary stylings of Kipling or Poe. “These pages cannot adequately express the horror,” Black writes, as the shadows bear down on his narrator. But there are some strong and concise depictions of place, as well. Patricia Santos Marcantonio uses Idaho’s supply of petroglyphs to craft a creeptacular, ghost-in-the-machine-style story rich with native imagery. Cope explores a family’s supernatural visit to a highway rest stop, while Dodge tells the story of a woman purchasing her dream house, which, of course, was on the market after being the scene of a mysterious death, something any movie-goer can tell you rarely works out. The anthology isn’t big on richly worded depictions of what the censors refer to as “graphic content.” For some horror fans, that might be a disappointment. For others, it is simply a choice to focus on more artful creeping senses of foreboding instead of ham-fisted blood and gore. As with all anthologies, readers will find some stories more to their liking than others. But it may also give some good reason to keep driving past that creepy roadside landmark they always wanted to stop at. —Josh Gross WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M