Horror is a genre that stretches to endless mediums and subgenres. Filmmaker Jim Towns knows this well as he is dipping his toes into the literary world with a new book from Anubis Press. AMERICAN CRYPTIC- TRUE STORIES OF THE STRANGE AND UNCANNY is now available on Kindle and in paperback.

Towns, best known for HOUSE OF BAD (2013), STATE OF DESOLATION (2020), and TV’s “66 HORROR FLIX,” attempts to deliver an open-minded cynic’s take on the uncanny and sometimes frightening things that border our accepted reality. Through thirteen (get it?) stories and essays, AMERICAN CRYPTIC- TRUE STORIES OF THE STRANGE AND UNCANNY examines several legends native to the author’s own roots in Western Pennsylvania, recalling firsthand unexplainable experiences as well. From folk tales of Native American giants buried under great earth mounds, to a haunted asylum, to a phantom trolley passenger, this work seeks not only to present the reader with new and fascinating supernatural tales, but also to deconstruct why our culture is so fascinated by their telling and re-telling.

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