Spook

by Alan Bowne

After the mysterious death of their aunt, cousins Eleanor and Lolly inherit a rambling house on the windswept Massachussets coast. Legend says it’s haunted by the ghost of a smuggler who was hanged for his crimes two hundred years ago. And soon enough, a handsome young man begins appearing in their beds at night, eager to seduce them.

Before long, Eleanor, Lolly, and even their uptight local Christian minister, Mr. Butts, are all vying for the spook’s erotic attentions. But as the reason for his haunting emerges, it’s clear he’ll stop at nothing - not even murder - to get what he wants.

Alan Bowne’s uproarious ghost comedy is believed to have been written in 1985, but it was never performed in his lifetime. A playwright and novelist from California, Bowne was renowned for writing about “the scraggly underbelly of life” (Interview). He began writing at the age of 35, authoring hit plays such as Beirut, Forty-Deuce, and Sharon and Billy, before he passed away from HIV/AIDS-related illnesses in 1989 at 44 years old. 

Alan Bowne (1945-1989)

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