TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE

							10 JUNE 2010 — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / CONTACT larry@glasseyepix.com

GLASS EYE PIX announces launch of genre audio program
“TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE”
curated and hosted by Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid

Conceived during a fog-drenched car ride with nothing out the windshield but an horizon-less void, Larry
Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid bring you audio theater inspired by the vintage radio shows of Boris Karloff and
Peter Lorre, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles. TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE will be brought to you by
Fessenden’s production outfit Glass Eye Pix, which is responsible for dozens of celebrated independent films
including I SELL THE DEAD, THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, THE LAST WINTER, WENDY AND LUCY, as well as
the forthcoming STAKE LAND and THE INNKEEPERS. TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE will delve into the
twisted minds of new and established horror auteurs to present singular stories of the uncanny; stories that will
chill and delight fans of the macabre. Contributors include:

Douglas Buck (Cutting Moments, Sisters)                           James Felix McKenney (Automatons, Hypothermia)
Jeff Buhler (Midnight Meat Train, Insanitarium)                   Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead)
Ilya Chaiken (Margarita Happy Hour, Liberty Kid)                  Jim Mickle (Mulberry Street, Stake Land)
Don Coscarelli (Phantasm, Bubba Ho-Tep)                           JT Petty (Soft for Digging, The Burrowers)
Larry Fessenden (Wendigo, The Last Winter)                        Graham Reznick (I Can See You, The Viewer)
Ted Geoghegan (Sweatshop)                                         Paul Solet (Grace)
Sarah Langan (The Keeper, The Missing)                            Ashley Thorpe (The Hairy Hands, Scayrecrow)
Joe Maggio (Bitter Feast)                                         Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers)

Hosted by Larry Fessenden, each thirty-minute episode will transport the listener through sharp scripting and
finely honed performances from actors familiar and new to the Glass Eye Pix stable. Also distinguishing these
audio plays will be a concentration on the landscape of sound and music that can be taken for granted in the
visual medium of film. Says Fessenden: “Glenn and I wanted to celebrate the written word and the power of
sound design in approaching this project. We also found if you cut out cameras and lights, you can tell stories a
lot cheaper.” Says McQuaid: “As filmmakers embarking on this project, we are letting go of our visual tricks—
the imagery is suggested, not seen, and so the listener gets to paint their own picture, it's interactive.”

The accompanying website will feature an original poster for each story by Gary Pullin, the celebrated designer
responsible for the look of Rue Morgue Magazine. Visitors to the site will enjoy an intro by the stop-motion
animator Voltaire and will find information on all of the show’s collaborators. TALES FROM BEYOND THE
PALE will be made available through the website and will be downloadable via i-tunes and Amazon individually
or as a series to be enjoyed however and whenever the listener wants: Radio plays for the digital age. Scripts
are rolling in; production begins in August, and the first episodes should be available by Halloween. For all the
latest news, please visit www.talesfrombeyondthepale.com.

BEYOND THE PALE: Unacceptable; outside agreed standards of decency. This pale is
the noun meaning 'a stake or pointed piece of wood'. It is virtually obsolete now except
in this phrase, but is still in use in the associated words paling (as in paling fence)
and impale (as in Dracula movies). The paling fence is significant, as the term pale
became to mean the area enclosed by such a fence and later just the figurative meaning of
'the area that is enclosed and safe'. So, to be 'beyond the pale' was to be outside the
area accepted as 'home'. —www.phrases.org

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