Skip the book club small talk. These aren’t your average reading group meetings - they’re part seminar, part salon, part theatrical experience, and entirely engaging.

Each month, we're hosting a two-hour deep dive into literature that matters. A dramatic reading kicks things off, followed by historical context, close reading, and the kind of wide-ranging conversation that goes places you don't expect - from aesthetics to politics to questions you didn't know you had about the human condition.

We'll kick off the series with THE HORROR STORY (The Revenge of Nature) starting with a reading of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" - an archetypal tale that helped define the modern horror tradition. From there, we’ll trace horror’s evolution: from Enlightenment cautionary tales designed to regulate the imagination, to 20th-century Cosmic Horror and its contemporary transformation into forms like Afrofuturism.

Questions we’ll explore: Why has horror so powerfully gripped the modern imagination? Is it therapeutic - a way of staging trauma? Are our monsters (vampires, zombies, witches, robots) manifestations of repressed social anxieties?