Director Josie Rourke has given the proceedings the justifiably disconcerting look of an ancien regime either on the way out or on the way in again for a spooky out-of-time replay of their decadent games.
Ooooh, spooky!) Find out on this week's edition of the Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Podcast, as Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski delve into the dark secrets of demonic disturbances, and the not-so-dark secrets of home security systems.
The work may be a minor sort of jape, but its funny, spooky intelligence stands out in an ambience of strained ambition.
It isn't entirely unentertaining, but it is disappointing, mostly because where the first act proceeds from uncertainty to revelation, the second act is largely concerned with making the spooky coincidences come out without loose ends.
Spooky inside and out, with themed, good-value meals and friendly staff, it offers a chance to "taste the preparations served to Jonathan Harker on his visit to Count Dracula's castle".
The crowds likely to throng this show may include some of the kooks who carve out spooky cultist Web-caves devoted to favorites (one such site features 15,000 images), but also anyone looking to become reacquainted with a face from the past.
Will she be the one luring people into whatever her own spooky pond turns out to be?
But from the general public's perspective, we want someone to walk in the front door thinking it could be a bit spooky but walk out with the idea that it wasn't what they thought it would be.
Go to your local library to look for books about local history and seek out spooky sites, talk to a librarian or sign up for a ghost tour if you live somewhere that has one.
