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Film historian DAVID J. SKAL. He's an expert on the horror film genre. His books include Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen (W.W. Norton) and The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror (Penguin, paperback). His newest book (written in collaboration with Elias Savada) is Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning, Hollywood's Master of the Macabre (Anchor Books). Tod Browning was a film director who earned the reputation as "the Edgar Allan Poe of the cinema." He directed Lon Chaney and Bela Lugosi and made such films as "Dracula" and the "repellent. . . and pathetic" "Freaks."

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

" SCOTT SPEAKS WITH ANANT SINGH, THE SOUTH AFRICAN PRODUCER OF A NEW FILM ADAPTATION OF THE CLASSIC NOVEL OF SOUTH AFRICA BY ALAN PATON.

Storyteller Jay O'Callahan reminds us that today is the 222nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. On that day in 1773, colonists threw into Boston Harbor a shipload of tea which King George of England was trying to force down their throat.

Susan talks with disappointed tourists who came to Washington D.C. hoping to do a little sightseeing and instead got the closed door treatment due to the federal shutdown.

There are elections in two far flung countries today...a parliamentary vote in Russia...and a presidential vote in Haiti. Susan talks about the voting first with NPR's Ann Garrels in Moscow, and then with NPR's David Welna in Port au Prince.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

NPR'S DAVID WELNA SETS UP TOMORROW'S ELECTION IN HAITI, WHERE THE CANDIDATE OF PRESIDENT JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE'S LAVALAS MOVEMENT IS, NOT SURPRISINGLY, THE OVERWHELMING FAVORITE -- BUT WHERE OTHER PROBLEMS, INCLUDING RESENTMENT OF THE U.S., ARE AN UNDERCURRENT TO THE CAMPAIGN.

VARIETY AT 90: THE ENTERTAINMENT TRADE PUBLICATION TURNS 90 TODAY. SCOTT SPEAKS WITH EDITORIAL DIRECTOR PETER BART ABOUT THE MAGAZINE THAT CREATED A "BOFFO" VOCABULARY OF ITS OWN.

Scottish percussionist EVELYN GLENNIE. She's one of the world's few classical percussion soloists. And she plays with orchestras worldwide. But instead of hearing the music, she feels it. GLENNIE is deaf, and has been since the age of 12. She's made several solo albums, and several years ago wrote her autobiography, Good Vibrations (Hutchison Publishers, London). GLENNIE performs at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia Dec 15 a