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Wicked Literature Comes to Life in the Mountain View Cemetery (Video)

The L.A.-based theater group has been performing adapted versions of classic horror literature for the second straight year at the Mountain View Cemetery

The theater group Wicked Lit is closing out its second year of performing adapted works of class scary literature at Altadena's .  The group started on October 21 and gives its final performance tonight.

The group does not do a traditional stage performance, but rather uses the cemetery and mausoleum as backdrops and allow the audience to follow along from scene to scene.

The group this year reperormed which were: Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask of Amontillado, H. P. Lovecraft's The Unnamable, and Charles Dickens' The Chimes.

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Their new performances this year were Mark Twain's A Ghost Story, M.R. James' Casting the Runes, and Robert Louis Stevenson's The Body Snatcher.

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