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Gary Percesepe is Associate Editor at BLIP Magazine (formerly Mississippi Review), and a Contributor at The Nervous Breakdown. His short stories, poems, essays, reviews, and interviews  have been widely published or are forthcoming in Story Quarterly, N + 1, Salon, Mississippi Review, Antioch Review, Pirene’s Fountain, The Millions, Atticus Review, Houston Literary Review, Westchester Review, The Nervous Breakdown, Rumpus, Pank, Bluestem, Bull, Word Riot, Moon Milk Review, Fogged Clarity, Necessary Fiction, Frigg, Twelve Stories, Negative Suck, and other places.

Next wednesday we'll be screening Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan (1964), stated as "one of the most meticulously crafted supernatural fantasy films ever made, and one of the most unusual". Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1965, Kwaidan features four nightmarish stories, based on Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folk tales, in which terror thrives and demons lurk. 

Shot almost entirely in enormous studio sets, with a completely post-synched and carefully controlled soundtrack, Kwaidan is about as far from moviemaking “realism” as it’s possible to go.