The Dreamland Park Murders

The Dreamland Park Murders
Author: Doris M. Dorwart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2005-08-25
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9780615130316

A non-fiction account written in story form about the murders of teenagers Marilyn Sheckler and Glenn Eckert at the ruins of Dreamland Park near Pricetown, Pennsylvania in 1969 and Michael Abate near Wernersville, Pennsylvania in 1994 with a focus on the trials of those accused of the crimes and on persons associated with both crimes. Dialog is based on court transcripts and interviews with people associated with the crimes, the trials, the victims, and/or the accused.

FantasticLand

FantasticLand
Author: Mike Bockoven
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2016-10-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1510709460

Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where “Fun is Guaranteed!” But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks, and shares. How could a group of survivors, mostly teenagers, commit such terrible acts? Presented as a fact-finding investigation and a series of first-person interviews, FantasticLand pieces together the grisly series of events. Park policy was that the mostly college-aged employees surrender their electronic devices to preserve the authenticity of the FantasticLand experience. Cut off from the world and left on their own, the teenagers soon form rival tribes who viciously compete for food, medicine, social dominance, and even human flesh. This new social network divides the ravaged dreamland into territories ruled by the Pirates, the ShopGirls, the Freaks, and the Mole People. If meticulously curated online personas can replace private identities, what takes over when those constructs are lost? FantasticLand is a modern take on Lord of the Flies meets Battle Royale that probes the consequences of a social civilization built online. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

The Corpsewood Manor Murders in North Georgia

The Corpsewood Manor Murders in North Georgia
Author: Amy Petulla
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2016-08-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1625856458

The notorious true crime story of a sex party that ended in double murder in the woods of Chattanooga County, Georgia. On December 12th, 1982, Tony West and Avery Brock made a visit to Corpsewood Manor under the pretense of a celebration. Then they brutally murdered their hosts. Dr. Charles Scudder had been a professor of pharmacology at Chicago’s Loyola University before he and his boyfriend Joey Odom moved to Georgia and built their own home in the Chattahoochee National Forest. Scudder had absconded with twelve thousand doses of LSD and had a very particular vision for their “castle in the woods.” It included a “pleasure chamber,” and rumors of Satanism swirled around the two men. Scudder even claimed to have summoned a demon to protect the estate. But when Scudder and Odom welcomed West and Brock into their strange abode, they had no idea the men were armed and dangerous. When the evening of kinky fun turned to a scene of gruesome slaughter, the murders set the stage for a sensational trial that engulfed the sleepy Southern town of Trion in shocking revelations and lurid speculations.

Paradise Alley

Paradise Alley
Author: Kevin Baker
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 708
Release: 2009-03-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061748986

They came by boat from a starving land—and by the Underground Railroad from Southern chains—seeking refuge in a crowded, filthy corner of hell at the bottom of a great metropolis. But in the terrible July of 1863, the poor and desperate of Paradise Alley would face a new catastrophe—as flames from the war that was tearing America in two reached out to set their city on fire.

Victorian Murders

Victorian Murders
Author: Jan Bondeson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2017-12-15
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1445666316

This book features fifty-six Victorian murder cases from the files of the Illustrated Police News.

The Central Park Five

The Central Park Five
Author: Sarah Burns
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2012-04-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0307387984

A spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case that powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crimes and its aftermath. • A must-read after watching Ava DuVernay's When They See Us On April 20th, 1989, two passersby discovered the body of the "Central Park jogger" crumpled in a ravine. She'd been raped and severely beaten. Within days five black and Latino teenagers were apprehended, all five confessing to the crime. The staggering torrent of media coverage that ensued, coupled with fierce public outcry, exposed the deep-seated race and class divisions in New York City at the time. The minors were tried and convicted as adults despite no evidence linking them to the victim. Over a decade later, when DNA tests connected serial rapist Matias Reyes to the crime, the government, law enforcement, social institutions and media of New York were exposed as having undermined the individuals they were designed to protect. Here, Sarah Burns recounts this historic case for the first time since the young men's convictions were overturned, telling, at last, the full story of one of New York’s most legendary crimes.

The Polyandrist Murders

The Polyandrist Murders
Author: Jack Collins
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2008-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595522548

Cherri Mason has three wealthy husbands and high end antique shops in London, New York and Los Angeles. She is a woman of action, not words. Lately, her husbands and those little shops have become a bit of a strain. Maybe, it's time to take the money and run. The only way to do that is to kill her husbands and sell the antique shops. The trick is to get away with it. Does she? Well, yes and no. She has some wild times along the way with some unusual friends. Some of those friends aren't what they seem.

The Dead of Summer

The Dead of Summer
Author: Camilla Way
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2009-01-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780156033732

At thirteen, Anita Naidu was the sole witness to London's notorious cave murders of 1986, which left three children dead.Told seven years later to the police psychologist who interviewed her at the time of the killings, Anita's story exposes the savagery of the schoolyard one chilling detail at a time until the truth reveals itself with startling ferocity. Set against the bustling, tourist-packed streets of historic Greenwich, this audacious debut examines sinister events that happen, quite literally, right below the surface. An irresistibly disturbing thriller for fans of A.M.Homes and Mary Gaitskill.

Fire on the Altar

Fire on the Altar
Author: Doris M. Dorwart
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2014-08-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 149692939X

Some people have a unique ability to control others in such a manner that whatever they say or do is appropriate. This story depicts characters who, through blind loyalty to a leader, can destroy the lives not only of innocent children, but adults who have lost touch with reality and become as hurtful and destructive as their leader. While right does not always win, there are those who will continue to fight for the preservation of goodness. In doing so, they may lose the very thing that means the most to them.

Denver's Lakeside Amusement Park

Denver's Lakeside Amusement Park
Author: David Forsyth
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2016-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 160732430X

Conclusion: A Century of Fun at Lakeside Amusement Park -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index