Eerie Iowa - (American Legends) by Michael McCarty & Bruce Walters (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Witness the Darker Side of the Hawkeye State

The farmlands and rural areas of Iowa are no stranger to the weird, dark and mysterious. Learn about a terrestrial sighting from 1903, a creepy cryptid that terrorized the town of Van Meter. Find out about Bigfoot sightings in Calhoun County. Peer under the waters of Lake Okoboji to find a huge lake monster. Read the history of a frightening sculpture based on a story by Franz Kafka and hear a premonition that predicted a devastating fire. Five-time Bram Stoker Finalist author Michael McCarty and Professor Emeritus Bruce Walters forge a twisted path through shadowy, Gothic Iowa. Do you dare follow?

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Witness the Darker Side of the Hawkeye State

About the Author

Bruce Walters retired from Western Illinois University in 2021 and was conferred with the title of professor emeritus. His artwork has been included in more than one hundred solo, invitational and competitive exhibitions in the Midwest at the Des Moines Art Center, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and numerous university museums and internationally as a contributing artist at Ulster University, Belfast; University of Dundee, Scotland; and Tate Modern, London. Michael McCarty has been a professional writer since 1983 and is the author of more than fifty fiction and nonfiction books. Michael is a five-time Bram Stoker Finalist and in 2008 won the David R. Collins Literary Achievement Award from the Midwest Writing Center. His blog site is monstermikeyaauthor.wordpress.com. Like his official Facebook page at www.facebook.com/michaelmccarty.horror.