On October 9, 2025 the Folger’s virtual book club returns with a discussion of A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand. To prepare for the discussion, we have pulled together a list of resources related to Shakespeare, horror, and Book Club’s spooky past.
DISCOVER related collection material
- Companion to the I Put a Spell on You poetry reading, October 2019
- The Discouerie of Witchcraft in the Vaults
- Hares, conies, and rabbits: The hunted and the melancholy
LEARN more about Shakespeare’s contemporaries
- Shakespeare Unlimited Episode 251: Shakespeare and his contemporaries, with Darren Freebury-Jones
- New resources, old plays: expanding A Digital Anthology of Early Modern Drama
EXPLORE connections between Shakespeare and horror
- Comic book casts Shakespeare’s First Folio in a horror story
- “Steeped in blood”: The doomed youth of Shakespeare and Stephen King
REVISIT past October Book Club picks
- I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (witchcraft)
- Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch (witchcraft)
- Shadowplay (Bram Stoker)
- Warm Bodies (zombies)
- Edith Holler (ghosts)
We would like to thank the following organization for its generous support of this program
Join us for a future event
Early Music Seminar: Virtuosos of Violin and Verse
Early Music Seminar: Virtuosos of Violin and Verse
Folger Consort Artistic Director Robert Eisenstein leads a lively virtual seminar that offers a sneak peek at the music performed in the Folger Consort’s upcoming concert Virtuosos of Violin and Verse.
Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 6pm ET
Folger Book Club: 'You Dreamed of Empires' by Álvaro Enrigue
Folger Book Club: 'You Dreamed of Empires' by Álvaro Enrigue
The book club explores the 1519 meeting between Cortés and Moctezuma, presenting a hallucinatory, revelatory colonial revenge story.
Thu, Nov 6, 2025, 6:30pm
"Songs from a Medieval Winter" with Muco
"Songs from a Medieval Winter" with Muco
Experience renditions of ballads and verse around the theme of winter with Muco. Following a presentation, Muco will perform Middle-English secular lyrics and Old-English verse accompanied by the inanga, a zither from East Africa.
Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 7pm ET
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