Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist by Robert Damon Schneck

Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist by Robert Damon Schneck

American history is more than just what you read in your high school textbooks.

There's a wild and weird side to America's past, filled with strange creatures, bizarre happenings, and fantastical figures. Researcher and writer Robert Damon Schneck has spent more than a decade devoted to sleuthing out these forgotten weird, grotesque, and mysterious gems of American history, like:

* The man who preached good health through blood-drinking.

* The California family driven insane by Ouija board séances, and the national panic that they ignited

* The West Virginia town named after its resident poltergeist, who was obsessed with cutting everything into crescent shapes. 

* The Antichrist-obsessed cult leader whose disciples became brutal murderers, all in the name of saving her (and the world).


You'll also learn about homemade guillotines, magical ape-men on Mt. St. Helens, the psychic who smuggled a crystal ball into the White House, and the origins of those baffling modern bogeys, evil clowns driving vans.

These historically researched, scrupulously verified, and always shockingly true tales in this collection come from an America that lies beyond the skyscrapers, cornfields, and suburban strip malls where we make our homes--a place where monsters guard buried treasures, schoolgirls develop stigmata, and we never run out of strange things.

The President's Vampire: Strange-but-True Stories of the United States of America, by Robert Damon Schneck, has been reissued as The Bye Bye Man. Mrs. Schneck, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award, was also written by Schneck. Wakeman vs. Wakeman vs. Wakeman vs. Wake Antichrist: And Other Strange-But-True Stories from American History is a collection of strange-but-true stories about the Antichrist. He has written about everything from murderous clowns to suicide groups in his long career as a recorder of the strange and unexplained. The majority of The Bye Bye Man was written at Schneck's customary table at a McDonald's in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

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ISBN 13	9781585429448
ISBN 10	1585429449
Title	Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist
Author	Robert Damon Schneck
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2014-10-02
Number of pages	320
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