Weird U.S.: Your Travel Guide to America's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

Moran, Mark; Sceurman, Mark

Published by Barnes & Noble Publishing, New York, 2004

About this Item

As new condition red boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped embossed color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Authors' Dedications; Introduction; Index and Picture and Editorial Credits. A repaired1 inch closed tear at the upper left front jacket edge; the jacket is otherwise in as new condition (see photographs). Profusely illustrated with color photographs, black-and-white photographs; and drawings. "What's weird around here?" It's a question Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman have been asking for years. And yes, they make a living from it. For over a decade the Marks, publishers of Weird N.J. magazine, have traveled the highways and back roads of their home state, camera and notebooks in hand, searching for the odd, the offbeat, and just plain weird places and people.Mark and Mark expanded their universe and found stories of weirdness in every state of the country. The result is a travel guide of sorts to America's local legends and best kept secrets. It's chock-full of the crazy characters, cursed roads, abandoned sites, and bizarre roadside attractions that the authors feel reflect the shared modern folklore of our time. The places they visit won't be featured on any nationally funded tourist maps. So come along with the Marks now. Visit places like Midgetville and Albino Village, explore abandoned insane asylums and forgotten tunnels - in one of them you just might run into the maniacal Bunnyman. Go off the beaten path and look for Melonheads, Frog People, and Melungeons. Take a ride down the Devil's Road and enter the Gates of Hell. Some of the people and places you'll see are disturbing, others are hilarious, but all are very very weird. It's a journey you'll never forget." - from the inner front jacket flap.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Weird U.S.: Your Travel Guide to America's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing, New York
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine