Haunted Texas

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Author: Alan Brown

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Price: £6.99 (Paperback)

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Stackpole are doing for the United States what several British publishers have been doing for the UK – providing a series of handy regional ghost guides, in this case state by state.

The author of Haunted Texas is a professor of English whose lively but informative style does justice to his subject. The Lone Star State is about twice the size of the UK, so there’s plenty of material and Brown gives them suitably juicy headlines: ‘The Black Hope Horror’, ‘The Bloody Secret in Room 636’, ‘Crazy Man’s Tower’, ‘Woman Hollering Creek’.

The Alamo, of course, is haunted and there’s something undeniably Texan about a herd of phantom cattle (at the aptly named Stampede Mesa). But Haunted Texas features more than just ghosts: UFO landings, banshees, Bigfoot-type monsters (‘covered in white-gray fur and scales [and] the head of a goat’) and the Chupacabra also make an appearance in this entertaining collection.

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