Creepy Crawls: A Horror Fiend's Travel Guide

by Leon Marcelo, Herschell Gordon Lewis (Foreword by)

Overview

Creepy Crawls is a ghoulish and ghastly terror-touring travel guide to the most dreadfully Horror-ed of destinations! From Tobe Hooper’s 1974 drive-in classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to the real-life Baltimore haunts of Edgar Allan Poe to the macabre features of Paris, France, Creepy Crawls offers morbidly offbeat locations for horror aficionados and travel buffs alike. Author Leon Marcelo lurks with you amongst the foulest of frightfully fiendish horror sites, and offers the name and address of each destination, horror trivia and curiosities, photographs, travel tips, all in an entertainingly ghoulish narrative that is in the jugular vein of beloved horror-host Elvira and the classic horror comic book icon The Crypt Keeper.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781595800138
Publisher:	Santa Monica Press
Publication date:	06/01/2006
Pages:	380
Sales rank:	730,096
Product dimensions:	6.08(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

Leon Marcelo has been a horror fiend since first reading Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” at the tender age of thirteen. His writing has been featured in Deep Red, Fangoria, Rue Morgue, Chiller Theatre, Ultra Violent, Horror Biz, Carpe Noctem, Morbid Curiosity, and Virus (Germany). He is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the State Universityof New York at Stony Brook, where his work concentrates on composition and rhetoric and, of corpse, horror in literature and film.

Editorial Reviews

"Creepy Crawls will make armchair travelers happy to be in the safety of their own homes."  —Associated Press

"Marcelo's book is thorough and informative, packed with real data masquerading as a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore."  —Boston Phoenix

"For road trippers who are also horror fans, this book is a nightmare come true!"  —RoadTripAmerica.com

"Every chapter of Creepy Crawls is packed with a hefty itinerary of museums, crypts, and other landmarks of note."  —Fangoria

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