Ghost tour tonight: There will be a guided ghost tour through the streets of the East Side of Providence, accompanied by spooky stories, tonight from 7 to 8:30. Tours leave from Prospect Terrace (the Roger Williams statue, 60 Congdon St).

Tickets are $12 online and $15 in person. Participants are invited to bring cameras.

Group and children’s rates are available. For details, visit www.providenceghosttour.com.

West End Community Center: The center at 109 Bucklin St. will hold an open house and health fair tomorrow. A dinner will be served from 5 to 6 p.m. prior to the health fair from 6 to 8.

There will be free door prizes. For information, call (401) 781-4242.

Film showing: Freedom Festival and the Providence Public Library will present Within Our Gates, a movie by Oscar Micheaux , on Tuesday, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at Central Library, 150 Empire St.

For information, call (401) 455-8000.

Author reading: Ed Hardy, visiting lecturer in the Department of English at Brown University, will read from his new book Keeper and Kid on Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. at EPOCH Assisted Living, One Butler Ave.

Hardy earned a master of fine arts degree from Cornell University. He has been teaching in the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown since 2001. He is an award-winning former newspaper reporter and editor, a freelance writer and an author of two novels, including Geyser Life and Keeper and Kid, which is the story of what happens when a man in his 30s, happily living his patched-together life in Providence, is thrust into parenthood, causing his world to nearly fall apart in the process.

The event is free and open to the public. For information, call (401) 275-0682.

Ghost stories: The Providence Public Library will present an evening of ghost stories with local author Dan Gordon on Thursday, Oct. 30, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Central Library, 150 Empire St. He will share scary tales and legendary ghost stories from his research on baseball history and Cape Cod lore.

The free event is intended for adults and brave children, 10 and older. Gordon’s books will be available for purchase and signing.

Gordon is a prize-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The Providence Journal, Fort Worth Star, San Juan Star, NINE, Elysian Fields Quarterly and Scribner’s Encyclopedia of American Lives.

Gordon, a Red Sox fan, contributed two chapters to an edited book on global baseball, Baseball without Borders: The International Pastime (University of Nebraska Press, November 06). Gordon’s admiration for the Cape’s soulful homes inspired him to spend a decade chronicling the Cape’s ghost stories.

For information, call (401) 455-8000.