Download or read book Evansville Monsters written by Kyle Steven Darnell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Evansville Indiana, there is more than meets the eye. For over two centuries this city has tried to keep its dirty secrets hidden, but that time has come to an end. "Evansville Monsters: Weird Tales of Goblins, Ghoulies, and Ghosts." is a collection of ten of these stories. Illustrated and expanded upon by author Kyle Darnell.The Green Clawed Beasts snatches tourists out of the Ohio River. The Grey Lady haunts just around the corner. Potholes swallow people up whole. Thrill yourselfWill you be able to avoid the Maniac of Mesker Park Zoo? Probably not, but why not find out in "Evansville Monsters: Weird Tales of Goblins, Ghoulies, and Ghosts."
Download or read book Monsters of the Midwest written by Jessica Freeburg and published by Adventure Publications. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read 23 chilling stories, from two paranormal investigators, about reportedly true encounters with monsters in the Midwest. A mysterious snake grows to frightening proportions. A slimy, clawed, green-scaled beast terrorizes swimmers from the bottom of a lake. Two enormous birds try to prey upon farm animals—and children. The Midwest’s history includes several unimaginable encounters with legendary creatures. This collection of “ghost stories” presents the creepiest, most surprising tales of monsters in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Authors Jessica Freeburg and Natalie Fowler are active paranormal investigators with a shared fascination for things that go bump in the night. The professional writers spent countless hours combing the region for the strangest and scariest run-ins with the unexplained. Horror fans and history buffs will delight in these 23 terrifying tales. They’re based on reportedly true accounts, proving that the Midwest is the setting for some of the most unsettling monster tales ever told. The short stories are ideal for quick reading, and they are sure to captivate even the most reluctant of readers. Share them with friends around a campfire, or try them alone at home—if you dare.
Download or read book Monsters Beasts and Demons in America written by Kristi Lew and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of monster lore in American popular culture, from legendary beasts, like Bigfoot, to present day creatures, such as the Montauk Monster.
Download or read book On Monsters written by Stephen T. Asma and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive modern-day bestiary."--The New Yorker
Download or read book Kids Everything Monsters written by Shannon R Turlington and published by Everything. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guaranteed to send shivers up the spine, this compendium covers a wide range of ancient legends of vampires, mummies, ghosts, werewolves, gremlins, zombies, and other frightening creatures. Two-color with puzzles and activities throughout. Dedicated Web site.
Download or read book Goddesses and Monsters written by Jane Caputi and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays focus upon popular culture as it is informed by ancient and current mythic images, narratives, personalities, icons and archetypes. Topics include: the cult status of the serial sex killer; sexual murder as a contemporary form of religious sacrifice; pornography as an everyday narrative underlying not only sexism, but also racism, homophobia, and militarism; the relation of incest to nuclearism; pornography and the sacred; cyborg myth; and subtextual presence of ancient goddess figures in contemporary narratives, including that of Princess Diana.
Download or read book Monsters Of Death Row written by Anthony Gordon Brown and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the cells of Death Row come the chilling, true-life accounts of the most heinous, cruel and depraved killers of modern times. Meet grisly killers such as Bill Joe Benefiel, the 'Superglue Monster', who glued his victims eyes and noses shut, causing them to suffocate. Or Willie Crain, the deviant fisherman, who put his victim into a lobster pot, where it was eaten by sea creatures. Many prisoners on ' the Row' have carried out serial murder, mass murder, spree killing and the desmemberment of bodies - both dead and alive. In these pages are to be found friends who have stabbed, hacked and ever filleted their victims. So meet the 'Dead Men and Women Walking' from the legion of the damned in the most terrifying true crime read ever.
Download or read book Creating Cultural Monsters written by Julie B. Wiest and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serial murderers generate an abundance of public interest, media coverage, and law enforcement attention, yet after decades of studies, serial murder researchers have been unable to answer the most important question: Why? Providing a unique and comprehensive exploration, Creating Cultural Monsters: Serial Murder in America explains connections bet
Download or read book Monsters of Wisconsin written by Linda S. Godfrey and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out about the bizarre and mysterious creatures living in Wisconsin.
Download or read book Blue Men and River Monsters written by John Zimm and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The north is a treasure trove of folklore. From magical creatures of the old country to legends of the mysterious and macabre, such lore is a fascinating record of the stories people held on to and the customs, foods, and cures that filled their lives. Collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers’ Program, a Depression-era works project, these are the stories of Norwegian and Swiss immigrants, Native American medicine men and storytellers, and pioneers with memories of the earliest days of settlement in the Old Northwest. In search of stories, legends, songs, and other scraps of traditional knowledge, researchers fanned out across Wisconsin and other states. The resulting handwritten notes, thousands of pages in length, capture history as people remembered it. Blue Men and River Monsters collects the most interesting and noteworthy of these tales, placing them alongside stunning artwork collected by the Federal Art Project in Wisconsin. Peruse these pages and discover a new history of the people and places of the old north.
Download or read book The Endless Nothing written by Chad Sugg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of poems written over the past five years by a fool much like you. Chad Sugg gives a voice to life, love, and death in the digital age, through this honest look at everything seemingly right and wrong with it all. His darkest yet most inspirational work to date.
Download or read book The Coldest Fear written by Rick Reed and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One deranged killer. One determined cop. One deadly obsession…“Readers will definitely want to see more of Reed’s character Jack Murphy.”—John Lutz, New York Times-bestselling author of Darker Than Night From the moment he sees the young woman’s body in her hotel bathtub, homicide detective Jack Murphy knows he’s looking at a truly demented but brilliantly designed puzzle. She’s been drained of blood. She’s missing her left hand. And the killer left a special message just for him. Hours later, he sees her severed hand arranged on a second victim’s body. The newspaper has the gruesome details. The FBI has a theory. But only Murphy knows how hard he’ll have to push—and how much he’ll have to risk—to thwart the killer’s twisted game. “Reed writes as only a cop can.”—Nelson DeMille
Download or read book Chasing American Monsters written by Jason Offutt and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STEP RIGHT UP and BEHOLD a stupendous COLLECTION of over 250 FEARSOME and FANTASTICAL CREATURES from Every State in the Union! The Black Dog of Hanging Hills, the Tommyknockers of Pennsylvania, the Banshee of the Badlands—these beasts and hundreds more will hold you spellbound, unable to look away from their frightful features and their extraordinary stories. Come face to face with modern-day dinosaurs, extraterrestrials, dragons, lizard men, giants, and flying humanoids. This illustrated collection includes more than 250 monsters and cryptids that will make your hair stand on end when you hear something go bump in the night. From Alabama to Wyoming and everywhere in between, these enigmatic abominations lurk in the darkest corners and the deepest shadows. This eye-opening book details the origins, appearance, and behaviors of these bizarre creatures so that if you should come across a terrifying beast in the wild, you'll know exactly what you're dealing with. Praise: "Jason Offutt does a special service to the field of cryptozoology with this new book Chasing American Monsters. By keeping all of us up-to-date and incredibly informed—beyond the scope of lesser guidebooks—we have a better head start on knowing where to look for these cryptids. Highly recommended."—Loren Coleman, author of Cryptozoology A to Z and director of the International Cryptozoology Museum
Download or read book The Snoring Monster written by David Lee Harrison and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While trying to go to sleep, a little boy is convinced that there are monsters in and around his room.
Download or read book Werewolves of Wisconsin and Other American Myths Monsters and Ghosts written by Andy Fish and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has a rich haunted history not often recounted in school. Beyond the Liberty Bell and right under the presidential noses on Mount Rushmore exists a dark and sinister world, which harbors secret creatures, beings both malevolent and benevolent, that inhabit the nation--ghosts and monsters unwilling or unable to abandon the American landscape. Hitchhike along on this transnational road trip with excursions to the most haunted American locations, including the home of Lizzie Borden, the Waverly Hills Sanatorium, and the Winchester Mystery House. Close your eyes through Ohio, purported to be the most haunted state in the nation. Watch out for the Frozen Bodies in Lake Tahoe, the Werewolves rumored to roam a lone stretch of road in Wisconsin, and the Bell Witch of Tennessee. And don't venture too close to the colonial era cemetery in Leicester, Massachusetts, for as the story goes, the only way out is through Hell.
Download or read book Waking Up In Black and White written by Chad Sugg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a poetry book about life, and death, and everything in-between. An honest look into the bright side of bad things.
Download or read book America s Nightmare Monsters written by Philip L. Rife and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-07-29 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MEET SOME OF AMERICA'S SCARIEST REAL-LIFE MONSTERS ...* El Chupacabras* The Jersey Devil* Mothman* dragons* Lizardman* living dinosaurs* giant snakes* werewolves* vanishing hitchhikers* Men In Black... AND MANY MORE
