Barnstorming Across Iowa and Minnesota October 2026

Poster Design By Pennsylvania Artist Sarah Knox

A MARK TWAIN HALLOWEEN –

Come and hear spooky tales of ghosts, witches, and spirits with Mark Twain’s unique view of the supernatural – “Besides scaring off witches, witch balls also ward off the evil eye, and evil spirits, and bad luck.  But it will do nothing for warts.  To cure warts, you need a dead rat and a grave-yard at midnight.”

Other authors, like Edgar Allan Poe and Shirley Jackson, wrote about haunted houses in The Fall of the House of Usher and The Haunting of Hill House while Twain tells a tale of a haunted barrel in Huck Finn.

Professional actor, Ray Carver plays Mark Twain.  Critics say of his performance “It seems as though time has been suspended – that could be the drawling Mark Twain up there on stage, reeling off his one-liners and holding the audience in his spell.”  Carver’s work at the Minnesota Festival Theater was called ‘impressive”.  Carver’s scripts of Twain’s “Life On The Mississippi”, “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg” and “Mark Twain’s Civil War” are part of the collection at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home Museum in Hannibal, Missouri. 

Bring “A Mark Twain Halloween” to your town! Contact Ray Carver at 3pennyplays@gmail.com to start the discussion about bringing this Halloween event to your home town!!

Mark Twain’s cat Bambino

Courtesy of twainquotes.com