Creepy
Crawls: A Horror Fiend's Travel Guide ,
by Leon Marcelo
I don't even want to imagine what might have
been spawned if Elvira and H. P. Lovecraft had gotten together,
but this is the book the two might well have written. A guide
to ghoulish locations in Europe and the United States, this
is the work of Leon Marcelo, a scholar whose specialty is horror
in literature and film and whose special talent is impressively
purple prose. Composed to please all those "boils and ghouls"
who can't resist the appeal of a "ghastly terror-touring
travel guide to the most dreadfully Horror-ed of travel destinations,"
this book makes it easy to locate and visit the locations where
revered horror tales took place, where notable scary movies
were filmed, and the places where some of their creators lurked.
From London and Paris to New York, Pennsylvania,
Washington, D.C., Texas, California, Maine, and New Jersey,
Marcelo has - often quite painstakingly - sleuthed out sites
connected with such memorable films as the original "Night
of the Living Dead," "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,"
"The Exorcist," "The Amityville Horror,"
"Halloween," and "Friday the 13th." With
this book in hand, it's easy to make pilgrimages to the graves
of horror greats like Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney. Authors
H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Washington Irving, and Stephen
King are all featured in the section dedicated to literature.
For every location, the author provides directions, telephone
numbers, and helpful information to make it easy to follow
in his footsteps. Black-and-white photographs are sprinkled
generously throughout the book, and a bibliography containing
"The Revoltingly Rotted Resources of Creepy Crawls'
Rapacious Research" offers plenty of suggestions for
further exploration.
For road trippers who are also horror fans,
this book is a nightmare come true!
Megan
Edwards
10/15/06
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