Once every generation comes a story of the world on the brink that has such scope, such imagination, such humanity that readers can only gasp at the vision. Only Some Can Hear My Voice is this generation's. Set just a few years in the future, it imagines a world where tensions have risen to the point where any number of events could lead to ......
Under the shadow of gray clouds, three children venture into the woods, where they spot the corpse of an old man on a scaffold. Suddenly a wild figure emerges, with long fingernails and tangled hair. It is the Hattak fullih nipi foni, the bone picker, who comes to tear off rotting flesh with his fingernails. Only the Choctaws who adhere to the old ......
An enduring icon of American culture, Mark Twain is still widely read, carefully studied, and reinterpreted more than a century after his death. He is best known for humor and for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, but his writings extend far beyond the humorous and his immortal boy heroes. He wrote in a dizzying variety of genres, ......
The Adirondack Park is filled with a lore unlike anywhere else in the world. Maybe it's the beauty that surrounds the Park thanks to the thousands of mountains, lakes, and rivers within. Maybe it's the history of woodsmen struggling to survive in a place that's been aptly nicknamed, "dismal wilderness." Hard to say, really. But everyone who visits ......
A micro-biography of horror fiction's most influential author and his love-hate relationship with NYC By the end of his life and near financial ruin, pulp horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft resigned himself to the likelihood that his writing would be forgotten. Today, Lovecraft stands alongside J.R.R. Tolkien as the most influential genre ......
Famous Phantoms, Creepy Casinos, and Gambling Ghosts
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas ... including the ghosts, unexplained phenomenon, and other spooky happenings. The strip is much more than bright lights, gambling, wild shows, and quick marriage ceremonies. Haunted Las Vegas reveals the true mysteries of Sin City and brings the old legends to life in a chilling way.
Phantom Cowboys, Spirit-Filled Saloons, and Mystical Mine Camps
From romance and robberies to cowboys and Indians, the Old West is filled with phenomenal happenings, mysteries, and ghosts that are sire to send a chill down any spine. Haunted Old West is the perfect collection for any campfire gathering.
Macabre Mansions, Southern Spirits, and Bone-Chilling Burial Grounds
More than two dozen tales of ghosts, unexplained phenomena, and other spooky happenings in Savannah, GA, the city of legendary ghosts. Includes information so readers can check out the spirits themselves -- if they dare.
From creature features to indie horror flicks, find out what happens when sex, horror, and the religious imagination come together Throughout history, religion has attempted to control nothing so much as our bodies: what they are and what they mean; what we do with them, with whom, and under what circumstances; how they may be displayed-or, ......
