A deliciously dark set of traditional tales from around the world. From the hideous flesh-eating Wendigo of Native American folklore to the sinister and seductive slit mouthed woman of Japan, join us, if you dare, for an evening of dark deeds… Professional storyteller Maria Credali returns with a pocket full of brand new (and at the same time, very old) tales to terrify and tickle you. Some of these stories are legends, some are folklore, but some are true… Fabulously…

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Tales from the Coroner’s Casebook – Life and Death in Georgian South Staffordshire and the Black Country.  Part One: 1801-1826. This illustrated presentation examines cases of sudden or unexplained deaths, presided over by Henry Smith Esq. - Coroner of the County of Stafford - between 1801 and 1842.  These include: domestic and industrial accidents, manslaughter, murders, suicides and ‘visitations of God.’  Who was this coroner, and what do his inquest reports tells us about life, as well as death, in…