the Tour of Horror - Myths and Ghosts Seven Continents-The Nightmare Atlas

After Europe, Asia, and Africa, The Nightmare Atlas finally sets foot on >Fifteen creatures. Fifteen places, from Quebec to Florida, from Puerto Rico to Oklahoma. Fifteen diptychs, each pairing a traditional origin tale - restored with a collector's fidelity, sources included - with a >The Wendigo of a James Bay winter camp. The Headless Horseman still riding the back roads above Sleepy Hollow. La Llorona's voice on a Mexico City switchboard the night of an earthquake. The Mothman circling Point Pleasant in the months before December 1967. And eleven other spirits, witches, and hungers, from a Louisiana bayou to a Quebec gallows cage, each anchored to a contemporary story where an ordinary witness - a levee guard, a park ranger, a wildlife photographer, a small-town teacher - >A quiet thread runs beneath all fifteen chapters to the very last page: a road map found in the glove compartment of a used car, marked with crosses across an entire continent, and the initials of a woman no one >This fourth volume is governed by one obsession above all: what a place remembers when the people who suffered on it are gone, and who is left to write it down. True to the spirit of the collection, nothing here is shown outright - it is only ever suggested, and it is exactly what stays >A scholarly annex closes the volume, with the precise ethnographic sources behind each of the fifteen creatures and the liberties fiction >A book for readers of demanding literary horror, world folklore, and short stories with a sting in the tail - read in order, or one story at a time, continent by continent.