New York: Come get creeped out with John Darnielle, Molly Ringwald, Michael Shannon, and us

It’s October, which means The A.V. Club is swept up in our annual hunt for all things thrilling, chilling, or some combination of the two. In at least one instance, the horrors have found us: On October 24, we’ll be in New York sponsoring an evening of “speculative, spooky, sensational stories” curated by AVC favorite John Darnielle. It’s a seasonally appropriate edition of Selected Shorts, the weekly short-fiction series produced by Symphony Space and distributed by Public Radio International, featuring readers Molly Ringwald, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Erbe, and Peter Jay Fernandez. And Darnielle won’t just be there in his capacity as the National Book Award-nominated author of Wolf In White Van—The Mountain Goats frontman will also debut a new song with the extremely on-theme title of “Skeleton’s Tooth.”