Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man!

This Sunday night on “The Lost Chord,” with Hallowe’en lurking like a mad clown astride a vampiric spider around a Caligari corner, we’ll seek our thrills under the comparatively safe conditions of three American experiments in controlled terror.

Wander the creepy cornfields of the overactive imagination with music by George Crumb (“A Haunted Landscape”), Morton Gould (“Jekyll and Hyde Variations”), and Dominick Argento (“Le Tombeau d’Edgar Poe”).

Crumb, who was born on October 24, 1929, makes his home outside Philadelphia. Argento, who hails from York, PA, was born on October 27, 1927. Gould, born and bred in Queens, died in 1996 at the age of 82. All three composers were honored with the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

Walk softly around these spine-tingling exercises in American Gothic. Join me, if you dare, for “Grave Endeavors,” this Sunday night at 10:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.