Join us at the Lee Council House for our Council Club Speaker Series:

The Architecture of the Weird: Ralph Adams Cram's Horror Fiction

Ralph Adams Cram, the architect who designed Calvary Episcopal Church on Lee Street, is best known as one of the leading American architects in the Neo-Gothic style. But he was also a prolific writer of short stories, many of which appear in his 1895 collection Black Spirits and White. Cram's fiction helped lay the foundation for the genre of horror writing known as 'the Weird,' exemplified in the works of better-known writers like H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith.

Dr. Michael A. Moir, Jr., Professor of English at Georgia Southwestern State University, will connect Cram's medievalist architectural style and monarchist politics with these long-forgotten tales of terror.