Back Roads Lore Volume 2: Bizarre Encounters

by David Weatherly, Chad Lewis, Kevin Lee Nelson

153 pages, Paperback

Published June 12, 2024

Reviews

[Monica · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have quickly fallen in love with this series, so I hope it stays strong.

The volume is slim, but well written with minimal typos and issues of that sort. The content is great. I love that it focuses on more odd ball features of lore and legend, and less on the more well known. For a fan of ghoulies and beasties, it is fun to find stuff I have not heard about a hundred times before: the Vegetable Man, Faceless beings, the Plat-eye, and even an Eel Pig from my own neck of the woods in Kentucky. So much fun!

[Bill Holmes · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’ve just finished the second issue of this very entertaining series, a sort-of-quarterly journal with four issues on offer as of April 2026. Back Roads Lore focuses on folklore and legends that are off-the-beaten track, stories you probably haven’t heard of. I was familiar with the Bandage Man of Cannon Beach (probably because I live in Oregon) and even the story of The Vegetable Man, but Faceless Men, the three-eyed Steintahl Monster, the shape shifting Plat-eye, Jack the Chaser, Huggin’ Molly, and Diana of the Dunes were all new to me. You can tell this is a labor of love for the authors. Recommended for lovers of folklore, cryptids, ghosts and legends.