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New England Nightmares: True Tales of the Strange and Gothic
New England is renowned for its quaint towns, beautiful landscapes, and busy ports. But it is also infamous as the setting for unexplained deaths, ghost stories, bizarre murders, and peculiar wills and epitaphs.
In New England True Tales of the Strange and Gothic , author Keven McQueen explores the darker and stranger side of New England and the Mid-Atlantic. With shocking and unforgettable tales from the tip of Maine all the way to the New Jersey shore, this eerie collection explores our fascination with death and the unknown, including tales of medical students digging up bodies to dissect, of a murderer's bones being wired together after death, and of Dr. Timothy Clark Smith, who requested that he be buried with a breathing tube and glass window so he could see the outside world.
An intriguing and frightful look into the odder side of the Northeast, New England Nightmares promises to send chills down your spine.
In New England True Tales of the Strange and Gothic , author Keven McQueen explores the darker and stranger side of New England and the Mid-Atlantic. With shocking and unforgettable tales from the tip of Maine all the way to the New Jersey shore, this eerie collection explores our fascination with death and the unknown, including tales of medical students digging up bodies to dissect, of a murderer's bones being wired together after death, and of Dr. Timothy Clark Smith, who requested that he be buried with a breathing tube and glass window so he could see the outside world.
An intriguing and frightful look into the odder side of the Northeast, New England Nightmares promises to send chills down your spine.
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296 pages, Paperback
First published September 15, 2018
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November 27, 2023
pretty interesting, some were too long but mostly an easy and fun not too spooky read.
October 23, 2018
In the spirit of Halloween, I was excited to read this book, hoping for a tone of macabre and mysterious and eerie, to give the tales within the pages a little more spine-tingling edge. Though these tales of deaths, near-deaths, and live burials were messed up in their own right, and the dry humor the writer used in this did make this an entertaining read, I felt a little disappointed that this book wasn't as creepy and dark as I thought it would be. It was more like reading a textbook written by your favorite funny college professor.
October 29, 2018
I wanted to love it. It's almost Halloween and these are 'strange and gothic' tales - should be great. Unfortunately, it reads like ... homework. That's the best to which I could compare it. It felt like I was studying or just reading informational text and no sense of the author bled through. I would not recommend to others.
August 31, 2018
This book is a lot of fun. I liked the way the stories were told and it was fascinating to read them.
Recommended!
Many thanks to the publisher and Edelweiss for this ARC
Recommended!
Many thanks to the publisher and Edelweiss for this ARC
November 15, 2022
I wanted to read a scary book for Halloween time, so I chose "New England Nightmares". The true tales were short and a little creepy, but my major problem of this book is the half of the book deals with tales from New York and New Jersey, which are not New England states. When I finally got to chapter three which was about Vermont it was only three pages long! It was followed by three short chapters on Rhode Island, Connecticut and Maine before heading to Delaware, which is also not a New England state. After chapters on Massachusetts and New Hampshire, the book ends in Pennsylvania, again not a New England state. I did enjoy the book, but it probably should have been called East Coast Nightmares instead. Interesting book with many quirky tales from the past.
October 25, 2023
Started this thinking it would be the perfect spooky season book and it was so dry and witless I won’t be finishing it. Such a bummer
October 11, 2018
Book received from Edelweiss
Another one of my guilty pleasure books. While this book discusses ghosts and cryptids that are relatively well known in New England, it also looks into verifiable happenings in the area. The doctor who was afraid of being buried alive, so he put a glass viewing window/tube that went from coffin to above ground. It's still there in the cemetery; if you dare you can look into the glass, I have to admit I'll be taking a trip there on my next stop in that state. It also mentions the story of poor Mercy Brown the first vampire in North America, and the horror she went through in both life and death. It also has some not as well known things from New England, including some of the strangest epitaphs I have ever seen. It's an excellent read for this time of year and something I want a copy of for my home library.
Another one of my guilty pleasure books. While this book discusses ghosts and cryptids that are relatively well known in New England, it also looks into verifiable happenings in the area. The doctor who was afraid of being buried alive, so he put a glass viewing window/tube that went from coffin to above ground. It's still there in the cemetery; if you dare you can look into the glass, I have to admit I'll be taking a trip there on my next stop in that state. It also mentions the story of poor Mercy Brown the first vampire in North America, and the horror she went through in both life and death. It also has some not as well known things from New England, including some of the strangest epitaphs I have ever seen. It's an excellent read for this time of year and something I want a copy of for my home library.
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