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Books: by Title: A Ghosthunter's
Journal:
Tales of the Supernatural and the Strange
in Upstate New York
Telepathic stalkers,
Visionary cults,
Iroquois magic,
Psychic murder
and poetry from the other world...
What do you do in your spare time? Jogging? Movies? Working on your car?
Mason Winfield tracks down reports of the paranormal.
First, he took you on an "X Files" tour of Western New York in Shadows of the Western Door. Now he has a few other tales to tell.
While criss-crossing the region during the research for his first book, there occasionally would be a story he couldn't tell. Sometimes the facts of the case were elusive. Sometimes the people involved wanted their privacy preserved. Sometimes even Mason wasn't sure what had happened.
In his preface to A Ghosthunter's Journal, he put it this way:
"...I came across captivating, powerful stories that were too 'classified' to retell in any way that would allow the identification of concerned individuals. This book is a fictionalized account of some of them.
Do you get it now? Or, are you still looking at this page and saying, "Is it true, or not?" Mason Winfield says it better than I can:
"The millennium ends, and paranormal topics are hot in fiction and film, but I see very few realistic representations. It looks like people go from the idea stage straight to writing book or screenplay with few worries about the way things really happen or what the thinkers make of it. I came at this book from the other direction. Imagination has had some play in it, of course. I believe a books readers should feel that theyve been on a journey, and whatever artist is in me could not resist the temptation to make that of this; but there was no need to imagine much, and mostly I just moved the real stuff around. What Ive encountered over the years is so much more gripping than books or movies because its real."
wnybooks.com feels strongly enough about this book, that we're putting one of the stories on the Internet, in its entirety. Read Bigfoot at Black Creek. We think you'll be back for more.
ISBN: 1-879201-29-1
(Softcover) $12.95
© 2000 Western New York Wares Inc.