Ghoulish Locals. Lisa and Richard Howorth, of Square Books, attended the Halloween night Thacker Mountain Show dressed for the occasion. Yes, Oxford’s former mayor has a knife in his throat.

Author-Turned-Musician. Michael Farris Smith, an Oxford resident and award-winning author, traded his prolific pen for an acoustic guitar and performed with his band, The Smokes, at the Thacker Mountain Radio Show on Thursday night.

“Charles Darwin meets Agatha Christie.” NYT Bestselling author Abbott Kahler read from her “wickedly gothic” novel Eden Undone at the Powerhouse on Thursday as part of the weekly Thacker Mountain Radio Show. The subtitle to the novel is telling: “A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II.” Signed copies are available at Square Books in downtown Oxford.