HITCH'S ESSAY BROUGHT TO LIFE
In a memoir from 1960, Hitch recalled the moment when, as a young child alone in the dark, he first felt terror. Later, he learned how to turn dread into delight while devouring the dark stories of Edgar Allan Poe. It's such a moving piece—and the gravitational center for our series on Hitch and Surrealism—that I tapped my dear friend and Patron, actor Leo Daedalus to read it for this short movie.

Voice: Leo Daedalus

Music: Conte Fantastique after Edgar Allan Poe's "Masque of the Red Death" (1919); performed by Quatour Via Nova; Lily Laskine, harp

Video: Produced, written and directed by Joel Gunz