Lawrence C. Connolly

Author: Lawrence C. Connolly

  • Talking Frankenstein

    “You’re going to see and feel the essence of who this man was.”   – Director Art DeConciliis discussing Prime Stage’s upcoming production of Karloff: The Man and the Monster. In an earlier post, I mentioned how actor Boris Karloff—the man who gave us cinema’s iconic performance as the Frankenstein creature—worked for years as a…

  • A Trap Full of Monsters:
    Responses to Last Week’s Mystery

    “Well then, I suppose that leaves us no choice but to enter through the devil’s door.” — August LaFleur, “A Trap Full of Monsters,” Act I Since our previous episode of Prime Stage Mystery Theatre concluded with August LaFleur suggesting that the only way into the New Towne Theatre is through something he called a…

  • Mystery Theatre Supplement:
    The Strange History of Devil’s Doors

    This guest post is a response to Prime Stage Mystery Theatre’s opening act of “A Trap Full of Monsters.”  If you have not yet listened to that episode, you can do so by clicking here. Also, you’ll want to be sure to check out Act II when it drops on Thursday, October 14, where we’ll be…

  • The Enduring Influence of Ambrose Bierce

    Earlier this year, after turning in the manuscript for a new collection of Ambrose Bierce stories, I was watching The Criterion Channel and engaging in an activity that screenwriter Josh Olson calls “eating your vegetables.” In other words, I was finally watching some of those classic movies I’d heard about but had never got around to…

  • A Trap Full of Monsters:
    The Return of Prime Stage Mystery Theatre

    “It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.” The above advice comes from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes and the father of modern detective fiction. And it will be good…

  • Beyond the Imagination:
    Frankenstein, Shelley & Karloff

    It’s not easy making a monster. Just ask Victor Frankenstein who “worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.” And when he finally succeeds, he steps back, takes a look at what he has done, and flees in horror. Similarly, author Mary Shelley devoted a year…