Eerie Appalachia
Smiling Man Indrid Cold, the Jersey Devil, the Legend of Mothman and More
Erschienen am 20. Juni 2022
127 Seiten
978-1-4396-7511-3 (ISBN)
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Gear up for a frightful jaunt into the darkest reaches of the ancient Appalachians. Folk deep within Appalachian hollers lean close to share stories of the inexplicable with hushed awe. Monsters rumbling in the hills. Strange lights darting through the pitch-black night sky. Horrible occurrences, almost ineffable in their bizarre tragedy. "e;Tall tales,"e; you might say. But tell that to the Flatwoods monster in Braxton County, West Virginia. Or the Goat Man of Louisville--look into his humanoid eyes and let him know you don't believe. And what of those apparitions in Mammoth Cave's Corpse Rock, or the Satan-spawn known as the Jersey Devil? How do you respond when those mysteries confront? From metaphysical energy that swirls near the Serpent Mound in Ohio to Point Pleasant's Mothman legacy, Mark Muncy and Kari Schultz explore the dark history lurking in the shadows of Appalachia..
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Mark Muncy is the creator of Hellview Cemetery, a charity haunted house in Central Florida that was so infamous it was banned by the City of St. Petersburg. An author of horror and science fiction, Mark has spent more than three decades collecting ghostly tales and reports of legendary beasts. This is his third book for The History Press after the successful Eerie Florida and Freaky Florida. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, on the remains of an ancient midden with his wife, Kari Schultz. Kari Schultz is a varied illustrator at Fox Dream Studio who enjoys fantasy and horror. She has been working on art as long as she can remember and reading folklore and horror almost as long. This is her fourth work for The History Press, as she ventured into another state for Eerie Alabama.
Inhalt
- Intro
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- PART I. THE APPALACHIAN TRIANGLE , 1950s and 1960s
- Indrid Cold (Parkersburg, West Virginia)
- The Mothman (Point Pleasant, West Virginia)
- The Grafton Monster (Grafton, West Virginia)
- The Hopkinsville Goblins (Kelly, Kentucky)
- The Loveland Frogmen (Loveland, Ohio)
- The Flatwoods Monster (Flatwoods, West Virginia)
- PART II. PRE -1900
- Wizard Clip (Middleway, West Virginia)
- Serpent Mound, Alligator Mound and the Crosswick Serpent (Ohio River Valley)
- PART III. HAUNTED HOT SPOTS
- The Kirkbride Asylums: Trans-Allegheny, Waverly Hills, Penhurst and the Ridges (Weston, West Virginia
- Louisville, Kentucky
- Spring City, Pennsylvania
- and Athens, Ohio)
- Screaming Jenny (Moulton, Alabama)
- The Moonville Tunnel (Vinton County, Ohio)
- The Greenbriar Ghost (Lewisburg, West Virginia)
- PART IV. EVERY HOLLER HAS A CREATURE
- An Introduction to Holler Life
- The Bone Lady (Amqui, Quebec)
- The Devil Spider (Hudson Valley, New York)
- The Jersey Devil (Pine Barrens, New Jersey)
- The Bogey Men (Olympia, Kentucky)
- The Pope Lick Monster (Louisville, Kentucky)
- The Rat Man (Jackson, Kentucky)
- The White Thangs (Various, Alabama and West Virginia)
- The Snallygaster (South Mountain, Maryland)
- The Snarly Yow (Harpers Ferry, West Virginia)
- The Wampus Cat (Appalachian Mountain Legend, Various States)
- The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp (Bishopville, South Carolina)
- Bunny Man Bridge (Clifton, Virginia)
- Ol' Pete (Rutledge, Tennessee)
- The Man at the Crossroads (Harlan, Kentucky)
- It Bites (Evington, Virginia)
- PART V. THE SASQUATCH ENCOUNTERS
- Bigfoot in the Appalachians
- The Ohio Grassman (Eastern Ohio)
- The Minerva Monster (Minerva, Ohio)
- The Apple Devils (Marlinton, West Virginia)
- Orange Eyes (Mill Lake, Ohio)
- The White Thang (Blakeslee, Pennsylvania)
- PART VI. EERIE LOCATIONS
- Mammoth Cave (Cave City, Kentucky)
- The Mushroom Mines (Lawton, Kentucky)
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Dayton, Ohio)
- Conclusion
- Appendix I. The Crestview Incident: Indrid Cold in Florida
- Appendix II. The Bench Leg of Goeble Ridge (Louisa, Kentucky)
- About the Author and Illustrator
