The New England Grimpendium
A Guide to Macabre and Ghastly Sites
Will be published approx. on 16. November 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-88150-919-9 (ISBN)
Description
A rich compendium of macabre and historic New England happenings, this travelogue features firsthand accounts of almost 200 sites throughout New England. This region is full of the macabre, the grim, and the ghastly-and all of it is worth visiting, for the traveler who dares! Author J. W. Ocker supplements directions and site information with entertaining personal anecdotes.
Topics include:
Legends and personalities of the macabre
Infamous crimes and killers
Dreadful tragedies
Horror movie locales
Notable cemeteries and gravestones
Intriguing memento mori
Classic monsters
Topics include:
Legends and personalities of the macabre
Infamous crimes and killers
Dreadful tragedies
Horror movie locales
Notable cemeteries and gravestones
Intriguing memento mori
Classic monsters
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Language
English
Place of publication
Woodstock
United States
Publishing group
WW Norton & Co
Illustrations
100 black-and-white photographs
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
496 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88150-919-9 (9780881509199)
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Person
J. W. Ocker is the Edgar Award-winning author of Poe-Land. He runs the website Odd Things I've Seen, where he chronicles his visits to various oddities of culture, art, and history. His writing has been featured in Rue Morgue magazine, CNN.com, American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty, and Studies in Australian Weird Fiction. Ocker lives in Nashua, NH.