Horror Guide to Massachusetts is a map to geographical locations, real and fictional, utilized in horror tales set in New England. It is hard to say which is more disquieting, terror amidst staid Yankees in a familiar setting or horror in obscure, forgotten corners of the Commonwealth. Both have their uses as weapons in the battle to scare you out of your wits. ADVANCED PRAISE FOR Horror Guide to Massachusetts “This is a unique and ingenious way of highlighting Massachusetts towns referenced in horror books, stories, TV and movies. Want to know if your town or region is featured in a published novel or television show? Check out this reference book out by the Brothers Goudsward. With a quick description of settings and their context in each story, this no-frills reference is packed with hundreds of scenes from all aspects of the genre, with indices that allow the reader to zero-in on any locale. I’ve never heard of any other work that has so completely done this, nor have I heard of many of the works mentioned inside. Without this guide, I never would have. Highly recommend it.”  Daniel G. Keohane, Bram Stoker Award nominated author of Solomon’s Grave and Margaret's Ark “We need more eccentric guides like this from the Goudsward Brothers! Give them a turn at the steering wheel and you won't be disappointed. From horror flick locations to the horrific Dover Demon's stomping ground, join them on a creepy journey around the Bay State!” Loren Coleman, Director of the International Cryptozoology Museum, and author of Monsters of Massachusetts and 30 other books “Horror Guide to Massachusetts is intensely awesome, especially for an antique Lovecraftian such as myself. As edifying as it is entertaining, this wonderful book is not only a guide to those spectral spots, historical or mythical, in Massachusetts, but serves also as a guide to a multitude of horror films, weird fiction, &c. As one who has been haunted by these places of dark hoary history, this book inspires eerie dreams and fond enchanting memories.”  W. H. Pugmire, critically acclaimed prose poet and author “A well-crafted book full of marvelous details! It's an insightful compilation that's both accurate and entertaining. I'm thrilled to see two of my Massachusetts horror films included here.” Brinke Stevens, actress, director, producer, writer, legendary Scream Queen ”A ghoulishly delightful tour through the darkest haunted corners of Massachusetts. You'll learn a lot – and find some great new reads in the process! Don't miss it.” Nate Kenyon, award-winning author of Sparrow Rock, Diablo: The Order, and Day One

Horror Guide to Massachusetts

Humor & Entertainment

Goudsward, David

Goudsward, Scott T.

Movies

Post Mortem Press

Horror Guide to Florida is a map to geographical locations, real and fictional, utilized in horror tales and films set in the Sunshine State. And just for good measure, they’ve included some true stories and events that should be horror stories, or lest the inspiration for future ones. Florida scares many people for many different reasons, be it the alligators and giant snakes in the Everglades, sharks with a taste for tourists, hurricanes with a taste for trailer parks, or giant mice wearing pants. But where else, outside your nightmares, can you find giant prehistoric penguins, exploding clergymen, mutant vampire were-turkeys, and the Bermuda Triangle all in the same geographic area? Come with the brothers Goudsward and explore the mysterious, the macabre, and the downright bizarre world hidden in the shadows of Florida.    “Tourists think of Florida as beaches, sun and fun. Few know that blood, guts and monsters prospered during the Grindhouse days of Florida film making. Horror Guide to Florida vividly captures the history of these films and credits a lot of my crazy friends that gave birth to independent film making. After making over a dozen films in Florida since the late 1950’s, I thought I knew film history. After reading Dave and Scott’s book, I feel like a novice. I highly recommend Horror Guide to Florida.”  -- William Grefe, Writer/Director/Producer    “A Florida gardener, his finger pricked by an aggressive hedge, once told me, “Down here, dammit, everything bites!” Here’s proof that he was right. He might also have added, everything spooks...and lingers.”  -- Jack Ketchum, author of The Girl Next Door and Off Season    “This book is mandatory reading for Florida horror aficionados; just as Somtow’s non-fiction books about Lovecraft make the Master’s stories doubly enjoyable, this fascinating geographical compendium makes Florida horror fiction even more compelling and entertaining. An absolute must-read for horror junkies!”  -- Edward Lee, author of Header, City Infernal, and Thee Bighead.    “They call it the Sunshine State, but the Goudswards know the truth. They’ve learned where the dark corners, deep swamps, and shadowed groves are. They’ve learned where monstrous things have crawled out of black waters to feed on human flesh, where toxic waste has bred ravenous, killer fish, where the dead walk through mangrove-covered islands. They’ve watched the movies, read the books, done the research, taken notes, and they’ve written it all down. God help us, they wrote it all down!” -- Pete Rawlik, author of Reanimators, The Weird Company, and Reanimatrix.   “I lived in Florida for a few years and know too well its unique brand of creepy. And Scott and Dave do their usual great job of cataloging it all. From the fictional to the mythical to the actual, they’ve gone deep to show that this state known for giving heat rash can also give you goosebumps.”  -- J.W. Ocker, author of the 2015 Edgar Award-winning Poe-Land.

Horror Guide to Florida

Travel

United States

In New England today, there are megalithic stones, stone chambers and structures, carvings and petroglyphs, even an unidentified skeleton in armor that defy easy explanation. From Maine to Massachusetts, this work presents an examination of various unexplained historical remains in New England. From the most notorious to the lesser known, it explores not only the layout and dimensions of such sites—some reminiscent of Stonehenge with their huge stones, astronomical alignments and undiscovered purposes—but also the history and possible explanations for their existence. Theories regarding Norse, Phoenician, Irish, Celtic and Native American origins are presented here in an impartial and logical manner. Sites discussed include Mystery Hill in North Salem, New Hampshire (also known as America's Stonehenge); Dighton Rock in Berkley, Massachusetts; Newport Tower in Newport, Rhode Island; and the Bellows Falls Petroglyphs in Bellows Falls, Vermont. An appendix provides information regarding sites open to the public.

Ancient Stone Sites of New England and the Debate Over Early European Exploration

History

Americas

McFarland Company

America’s Stonehenge—The Mystery Hill Story, by America’s Stonehenge sits atop Mystery Hill in North Salem, New Hampshire. It is an acre of stone structures surrounded by a 12-acre calendar. Alignments and carbon dating indicate the site was built about 4000 years ago. Who built it? In this book, authors Stone and Goudsward explore the historical and prehistoric clues left behind at the archaeology site once described and traced from the clues left behind from visitors, residents and researchers, and how that has led to today’s research and the current interpretation of the evidence.

America's Stonehenge: The Mystery Hill Story

Stone,Robert

Branden Books

The Westford Knight is a mysterious, controversial stone carving in Massachusetts. Some believe it is an effigy of a 14th century knight, evidence of an early European visit to the New World by Henry Sinclair, the Earl of Orkney and Lord of Roslin. In 1954, an archaeologist encountered the carving, long known to locals and ascribed a variety of origin stories, and proposed it to be a remnant of the Sinclair expedition. The story of the Westford Knight is a mix of history, archaeology, sociology, and Knights Templar lore. This work unravels the threads of the Knight's history, separating fact from fantasy.This revised edition includes a new foreword and four new chapters which add context to the myth-building that has surrounded the Westford Knight and artifacts like it.

The Westford Knight and Henry Sinclair: Evidence of a 14th Century Scottish Voyage to North America, 2d ed.

McFarland

Ancient Stone Sites of New England and the Debate Over Early European Exploration, 2d ed.

"Help me! Help me!" Andre Delambre is a devoted husband, a loving father and a brilliant scientist. When his body is found in his laboratory with his arm and head crushed by a hydraulic press, his wife Helene admits to having killed him. Believing Helene incapable of such a crime, Andre's brother slowly uncovers the truth - that an experiment with Andre's new teleportation device went horribly wrong and Andre persuaded Helene to assist him in suicide. When the American Film Institute distributed a ballot with 400 nominated movie quotes to a jury of over 1500 film industry figures, the abovequote came in 123rd. But this film's influence extends far beyond a simple quote. The movie's concept, ending and the quote have permeated pop culture from 1958 to The Simpsons to a 2008 opera based on a 1986 film remake by David Cronenberg. The original movie The Fly was the surprise hit on 1958. Shot in 18 days at a cost of $450,00 dollars, it brought in $6 million, which at time when Fox Studios was in desperate need of a hit. It was the biggest box office film of director Kurt Neumann but he would never know - he died one month after the premiere (a week before the movie was released nationally). This film made a star of David Hedison and cemented Vincent Price's place among the horror film immortals. It is more than a tale of science gone wrong and hideous mutants. It is a film classic, the rare perfect blending of story, cast and crew, with the fantastic elements in sync with the universality of Andre's struggle with what he had hoped to do with this technology and what actually happened to him. That struggle touches everyone who has ever watched this film and why, after 50 years, it remains a classic. Complete with reminiscences from the film's star, David Hedison, this book covers the history and legacy of this seminal science fiction film.

The Fly at 50: The Creation and Legacy of a Classic Science Fiction Film

Kachmar, Diane

BearManor Media

For decades, David Goudsward has been a leading authority on the obscurer historical and topographical corners of his native New England. In this lavish and detailed treatise, he has written the definitive treatment of Lovecraft's connections with the Merrimack Valley of coastal Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Goudsward traces Lovecraft's initial visits in the 1920s to such towns as Newburyport, Haverhill, and Hampstead, where he met such colleagues as Charles W. "Tryout" Smith, Myrta Alice Little, and Edgar J. Davis. Later visits clearly inspired many of the topographical features in such tales as "The Shadow over Innsmouth" and "The Shadow out of Time." Goudsward has made a profound study of Lovecraft's letters and other documents in tracing the Providence writer's movements in the area and the impressions he drew from it. This book is lavishly illustrated with dozens of photographs of the locale, including many vivid period snapshots that show the towns and other landmarks as they would have been seen by Lovecraft himself. Goudsward also treats the possibility that Lovecraft visited Mystery Hill, a megalithic site that some scholars believe inspired "The Dunwich Horror." H. P. Lovecraft in the Merrimack Valley is an exhaustive treatment of a subject that has rarely been discussed before, but that is of crucial importance to H. P. Lovecraft's life and imagination.

H. P. Lovecraft in the Merrimack Valley

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Hippocampus Press

Wittier Than Thou is a collection of twenty short stories of humor and whimsy inspired by the life and works of John Greenleaf Whittier. All proceeds benefit the Whittier Birthplace museum in Haverhill, Massachusetts.John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) is best recalled either as as a fiery abolitionist or as one of New England’s beloved Fireside Poets. But along with impassioned anti-slavery verse and the later songs of faith and rural domesticity, Whittier had a sly and subtle sense of humor, most evident in poems composed for friends and correspondents. What better way to celebrate the poet and his work than by exploring the wide range of wit and mirth that Whittier inspires. Who knows – you may find that he is wittier than thou!Stories by Jeff Strand, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ken Faig, Jr., Nancy Brewka-Clark, Judi Calhoun, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Peter Rawlik, Edwin Berne, Jill Hand, DG Critchley, Richard Lau, Mark Twain, Joan Wright Mularz, Rosemary Shomaker, John Greenleaf Whittier, Gregory L. Norris, David Bernard, Seabury Quinn, and Rob Smales.Edited by David Goudsward

Wittier Than Thou: Tales of Whimsy and Mirth inspired by the life and works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Haverhill House Publishing

Sea Serpent TerritoryEver since Columbus spotted mermaids, sea monsters, and mystery lizards in the New World, sightings of a diverse array of marine cryptids have continued unabated in the waters of Florida, the Southeastern coast, and the Caribbean. Dinosaurs, mermaids, and sea serpents in a range of colors and lengths, along with monster sharks, mystery seals, and giant penguins, all seem to have made the tourist-friendly waters of the region their home. In Florida, it became a running joke that the tourist season officially started when the first sea serpent report appeared in the newspapers.What's behind all the reports? Hoaxes? Some certainly are. Yellow journalism? Yes, sometimes. Misidentifications? It's pretty common. A way to drum up business? Shocking, but true. But in that mix, there are probably some unidentified animals as well. David Goudsward digs up the original sources and interviews to sort fact from fiction, and tells some fascinating stories along the way.

Sun, Sand, and Sea Serpents

Anomalist Books

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