The Crick Crack Club are the UK's oldest and boldest live storytelling programmers. We create exuberant, intelligent, wild, weird and wonderful events that draw people from all walks of life into the stunning content of international fairytale, folktale, myth and epic. Every month, we bring our Fairytales for Grown-ups to The Story Museum. These are intriguing, intimate live events, featuring some of the UK’s finest storytellers.

The Game of Candles - ghost tales from Japan

Ravenous flying heads; demon masks that possess the wearer; faceless ghosts; goblin-rats, women made of snow; seductive statues; warrior monks; abandoned farmhouses; haunted bridges; mountaintops and lonely roads...

In Edo period Japan, a night-time game of one hundred flickering candles and one hundred supernatural tales became a widespread folk phenomenon - Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai. After each teller finished their story, a candle would be extinguished, plunging the room, by small degrees, into a darkness filled with ever more hungry ghosts...

Join superlative storytellers Tim Ralphs and Sarah-Liisa Wilkinson as they pay tribute to this unnerving folk custom.

'Pure and utter genius' - Huddersfield Literature Festival

'Elegant, funny & often irreverent' - Fringe Guru

Suitable for adults - aged 14+