“Blood Manor, the Legend Lives On!”
by itsi Atkins
itsiatkins@gmail.com
For Immediate Release:
Remember back in the 1970’s, when in St. Mary’s and Charles Counties, Mayland, “They screamed and crawled on the floor. They cling to friends and strangers. They sobbed and wet their pants. They passed out. And the minute they got out, though still shaken, they declared they love it.” Washington Star. Oct. 1977
“SICKEST SHOW IN AMERICA, AND IT IS BRINGING THEM IN BY THE TOUSANDS”
London Mirror Oct. 1977
“HORROR, IT’S THE SICKEST SHOW OF THEM ALL” The Herald Melbourne Au. Oct. 1977
“The spirit who really haunts Blood Manor who designs the guillotines, creates the bloody skulls, spins the cobwebs and masterminds the whole horror show is not a monster but a “MONSTEROLOGIST” named Itsi Atkins”
Washington Post
Blood Manor has returned, but not to the sleepy southern Maryland towns, but to the Big Apple. Yes! Blood Manor has made it to “Broadway”!
October 2005 the New York Times folded open, Itsi Atkins finds that a 34-year-old dream is still haunting and following his life’s path. The monster, which consumed his life for ten years still today’s lurks and haunts his life. Itsi Atkins a man of the Halloween Season has fallen victim to the monster he created.
At the new site, www.bloodmanor.net , you can revisit Blood Manor, it’s memories and a site to post your stories. Itsi is currently writing the “Blood Manor history, The First Haunted House in America” to be published in 2006. It was in 1971 when the “originator of the theatrical haunted house” produced a sound and light horror show with college students in the wilds of St. Mary’s County, Maryland. The old, wooden five story structure was the abandoned dormitory of a convent of nuns. St. Mary’s City was the first capital in Maryland in 1634 and Ridge was only miles from this ancient site. The nunnery standing dark and exposed to the rain and wind was scheduled for demolition but in October of 1971 it was transformed by the creative and unorthodox mind of Itsi, Edwin Atkins, a local elementary school music teacher.
Maryland’s Blood Manor began in 1971 and continued for 10 long and scary years
In 1971 “ALL” meant only one, but in 2005 “ALL” means a holiday industry only second to Christmas. Halloween is a 10 billion dollar holiday with 1.5 billion in costume sales and rentals.
Blood Manor trademarked is the original terror created by itsi Atkins but in last decade has been used by many ghostly and morbid producers. After a lifetime of production experience in music, theatre and feature film Itsi Atkins, now retired in New York City, was not expecting Blood Manor to still be alive. But it is very much alive and living not 15 minuets from his eastside NYC apartment.
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