From our All-Star Storytelling Night at Riley's, Owen Kilbane returns with a tale about the rewards of playing the accordion.

For our sixth Storytelling Night at Riley's session, Throughline Theatre's Michael McBurney tells a story about Dracula and the dangers of partying too hard before a performance.

A program featuring stories from the collections Visions: Short Fantasy & SF and This Way to Egress.

Stories written and performed by Lawrence C. Connolly, with music written and performed by The Legion of Incredibly Strange Superheroes and John Connolly.

Presentation produced by Chris Moore, recorded at Big Science Music, Pittsburgh, PA.

Stories copyright © 1998-2003 by Lawrence C. Connolly.

"Leaves and Dust." Words and music by Lawrence C. Connolly. Performed by The Connolly Brothers. 1977. Copyright © Lawrence C. Connolly. All Rights Reserved.

For our first Storytelling Night at Riley's session, horror writer Michael A. Arnzen talks about the childhood forces that helped him win four Bram Stoker Awards.

For our third Storytelling Night at Riley's session, garden writer Martha Swiss shares a story about a strange encounter in Cook Forest, Pennsylvania.

For our third Storytelling Night at Riley's session, playwright C. S. Wyatt returns with a story about an unusual discovery in a California orange grove.

Joe Grubbs makes his Storytelling-at-Riley's debut with a story about a toad that almost ended a musical performance.

Joe Coluccio returns to Storytelling at Riley's with the story of what might have been Duke the Wonder Dog's final performance.

Playwright C. S. Wyatt tells the story of his first theatrical production.

 Michael McBurney (Director of Public Relations at Throughline Theatre) holds BAs in Comparative Literature and History from Penn State University (where he took part in over 30 productions with the No Refund Theatre), has worked on productions at Carlow University and the Summer Company at Duquesne University, as well as numerous production at Throughline.

His story proves that what goes up must come down — especially when one finds himself unexpectedly suspended 20 feet above a stage, clinging to the rope of a theatre’s fly system.

Lawrence C. Connolly reads the prologue from his novel Veins: Book One of the Veins Cycle, published by Fantasist Enterprises. Text, music, and performance copyright (c) 2014 by Lawrence C. Connolly. Produced by Fantasist Enterprises and 21st-Century Scop Productions.