The jacket is very good, but has a light stain (about the size of a quarter) on the reverse side. BINDING/CONDITION: black binding with cloth at the spine a short top-edge tear on the half-title page a Good book, with a Good dust jacket publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.

Author John Keel spent a year in Point Pleasant investigating the many bizarre events and his report on the so-called Mothman, a primeval monster with blazing red eyes and a pair of batlike wings is a true tale of gothic mystery.'' This was the basis for the 2002 film starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney. Homes in the area were plagued with unearthly noises and manifestations. In the months before the disaster, Point Pleasant, West Virginia had been haunted by strange monsters and apparitions, and mysterious aerial lights had traveled silently over the little town on a regular schedule. The facts behind this tragedy form a real-life horror story. ''On December 15, 1967, the seven-hundred foot Silver Bridge spanning the Ohio River collapsed, sweeping scores of people into the water and killing thirty-eight. Keel wrote his first article on unidentified flying objects in 1945, but it was not until a visit to the Aswan Dam in Upper Egypt in 1954 that he saw his first genuine flying saucer. ''An investigation into the Mysterious American Visits of the Infamous Feathery Garuda.'' The publisher's author blurb tells us that John Keel is an acknowledged leader in the field of UFO investigations. Description: Dust jacket design by Peter Parnall.

Hardbound 8vo (8.5 inches tall) 269 pages.

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