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Robert Damon Schneck is a researcher and writer, and the author of The President's Vampire: Strange-but-True Tales of the United States of America and Are You Psychic? He is a regular contributor to Fortean Times and other publications.

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Schneck, Robert Damon
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Probably better than the movie, I'm guessing.
 
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autumndragyn | 3 andere besprekingen | Nov 23, 2023 |
Unfortunately I was disappointed in this book as I thought it would be as creepy as the cover made it seem to be, but alas it was not. There are only eight stories in the book and as much as I wanted to be scared even with reading about the Bye Bye Man, the story didn't spook me at all. You can turn the lights off folks as there is nothing to be afraid of here! Some of the stories were boring to me as I just could find no spooks! Two stars for this one!
 
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BookNookRetreat7 | 3 andere besprekingen | Jul 25, 2022 |
Non-Fiction for People Who Enjoy Horror

"Mrs. Wakeman Vs. The Antichrist" is a collection of articles about strange happenings in the United States. The articles will appeal mostly to people interested in stories of the occult or pseudoscience. I think the best classification for this book might be "non-fiction horror."

The book has an excellent index, an element missing from most popular non-fiction. The author has done a great amount of research and found plenty of sources for the historical facts he presents, but his footnotes are lacking. Some of the footnotes are just URLs, including one footnote that is simply a URL to a Wikipedia page. I'm not kidding. Other footnotes simply give names and dates of articles, but no other information.

Unfortunately, the author is also speculative to a fault. This will appeal to a lot of readers who enjoy popular mysteries, but I found it was a stretch for me. For example, the author writes an entire article presenting logic to mysteries, but then claims there might be an unknown, supernatural reason for the occurrences. Because most people are scientifically skeptical about Ouija, there doesn't seem to be much of a point to ending the article by speculating that a Ouija board might be the cause behind mass hysteria.

There are digressions for pages at a time. In the article that is ostensibly about a doctor who surgically altered men to be in a "freak" show attraction, the author goes off on tangents about other traveling circuses and "freak" shows. Most of the articles have similar detours and asides. At times throughout the book, this caused me to lose track of the people and timelines.

Anyone who likes the occult, horror stories, or pseudoscience will enjoy these stories. Just because it wasn't my cup of tea doesn't mean that there isn't an audience for these articles.
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mvblair | 1 andere bespreking | Aug 9, 2020 |
Overall, this small anthology was not as chill-inducing as the cover would have you believe. It is a collection of American stories that may or (more likely) may not have unusual explanations, and each is presented in the general form of an historical research topic. The author raises some questions and theories with regard to the stories, all of which are unresolved, but no answers. They were somewhat interesting but not exceptionally noteworthy.
 
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