Dead Zones

By: Jarvis, Sharon

No Synopsis Available.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446360775
• ISBN13: 9780446360777
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A collection of infotainment anecdotes, nothing more.

Sharon Jarvis's collection Dead Zones is more paranormal infotainment (a term for entertainment disguised as information) than anything else. The great thing about books like this is that they show how folk lore and urban legends are born and kept alive. For that alone any book of this genre is worth a look, imagine how boring the world would be without its haunted houses, mysterious creatures, and cursed places.However this book really is more tease than terror. The tales are narrative short shorts and, as usual, skimpy on any real detail (lots of fictionalized names, third party "I knew someone who was there" descriptions, and anonymous job named persons - i.e. a 'local cop' or a 'woman who is a producer of horror films' -please note, if you cannot easily identify the man described as "A noted demonologist who lives in Connecticut" then perhaps you should seriously bone up on your paranormal reading!) and some reprints of described photos and/or newspaper headlines would be nice. But directions to some of the locales open to the public are included. Hauntings...fact or fantasy? I review, you decide.