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Mark Z. Danielewski

( Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times )

"Fear interests me," says famously hands-on writer Mark Z. Danielewski, who turned his ghost story "The Fifty Year Sword" into a Halloween night performance piece at REDCAT.
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