Anyone in the Seattle area with an Instagram may have seen ads in the last few weeks for House of Spirits: Tale of Vaughan Mansion, a Haunted Cocktail Soirée. Intrigued by the images of a candlelit, creepy costume ball, my friends and I got tickets for Halloween night. In our finest macabre attire, we trudged through the rain over wet red and brown leaves plastered to cobblestones, our heels clacking through puddles, to the historic Rainier Chapter House in Capitol Hill, a recreation of George Washington’s Mount Vernon.
(she/her) Gray Harrison is a writer and critic with a lifelong love of the performing arts. In 2023, she finished her Masters in Cultural Reporting and Criticism at NYU Journalism, where she learned to apply her fiction-writer's eye to real-world arts journalism. She has reported on music festivals, hosted her own radio shows, and written podcast episodes doing deep-dives into albums. This winter, Gray interned on the editorial team writing music news stories for Relix magazine, and she most recently started a position as a movie and TV features writer at Collider. In addition to her love of music and cinema, Gray hopes to bring her involvement in the Seattle dance scene to her writing for The Evergreen Echo.
