There are a lot of unanswered questions about VicSage, like how he spent - or misspent - his youth and how he came tobe a journalist in the country's worst city. This novel willsolve these mysteries, retell and embellish some old tales and tell anew tale of how Vic, with a bit of help, brought some measure ofserenity to a truly dreadful place. From his first meeting with LadyShiva, where he was almost killed, to training with Richard Dragon,the best martial artist in the world, and how Batman, whilethreatening his life, also saves him.DC UNIVERSE: HELLTOWN finally provides answers about The Question.Who he is and what he did...
**Soon to be an Amazon limited series directed by Academy Award winner Ed Berger from Robert Downey Jr.'s Team Downey** Before Charles Manson, there was Tony Costa—the serial killer of Cape Cod 1969: The hippie scene is vibrant in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Long-haired teenagers roam the streets, strumming guitars and preaching about peace and love... and Tony Costa is at the center of it all. To a certain group of smitten young women, he is known as Sire—the leader of their counter-culture movement, the charming man who speaks eloquently and hands out hallucinogenic drugs like candy. But beneath his benign persona lies a twisted and uncontrollable rage that threatens to break loose at any moment. Tony Costa is the most dangerous man on Cape Cod, and no one who crosses his path is safe. When young women begin to disappear, Costa's natural charisma and good looks initially protect him from suspicion. But as the bodies are discovered, the police close in on him as the key suspect. Meanwhile, local writers Kurt Vonnegut and Norman Mailer are locked in a desperate race to secure their legacies as great literary icons—and they both set their sights on Tony Costa and the drug-soaked hippie culture that he embodies as their next promising subject, launching independent investigations that stoke the competitive fires between two of the greatest American writers. Immersive, unflinching, and shocking, Helltown is a landmark true crime narrative that transports us back to the turbulent late 1960s, reveals the secrets of a notorious serial killer, and unspools the threads connecting Costa, Vonnegut, and Mailer in the seaside city that played host to horrors unlike any ever seen before. New York Times bestselling author Casey Sherman has crafted a stunner.
In 1974 the government took over 32,861 acres of land and made it the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. It forced the many residents off their property, and rumors of strange experiments that took place in an underground government facility became the thing of legend. Helltown, where multiple lives intersect, and only those with the will to survive in a place named after Hell itself survive, but at what cost?This is their story.
Test films, pilots, trial series, limited runs, summer tryouts--by whatever name, televison networks have produced thousands of experimental shows that never made it into the regular line-up. Some were actually shown, but failed to gain an audience; many others never even made it on the air. This work includes more than 3,000 experimental television programs, both aired and unaired, that almost became a series. Entries include length, network, air date (if appropriate), a fact-filled plot synopsis, cast, guest stars, producer, director, writer, and music coordinator. Fully indexed.
Lucky Jordan returns from World War II a national hero with a guilty conscience. His quest for fortune and glory continues in Hollywood, where he intends to make his mark in the motion picture industry. Jordan ends up as a stuntman for some of Hollywood¿s top leading men but makes enough waves behind the scenes to ruffle the feathers of Hollywood¿s elite. In retaliation, they orchestrate a sex scandal that destroys his rising career. Jordan is soon blackballed and exiled from stardom. A year later, battling loneliness and sexual addiction, he¿s working in the pornography business. His only friends are the stray pets he takes in. Jordan eventually falls in with Helltown, an underground cult obsessed with the notion that the U.S. government is conspiring with the movie industry and corporate America to control the minds of the American public. Jordan becomes The Midnight Man, a superhero experiment created and enhanced by the Helltown cult in order to steal the thunder of the motion picture industry and bring to light the evils being unleashed on the movie-going public¿the same public that condemned the once-graceful hero. A war hero makes his way to Hollywood, where his attempts to become a star are derailed by a world of sex and perversion. Former spy Lucky Jordan is a threat to the post-World War II Hollywood establishment. After nearly finishing off Hitler and winning acclaim for his heroic exploits, the Jewish Jordan heads to California to seek his fortune. Just as it seems Lucky's about to catch his first break, scandal erupts when he's photographed in a compromising position with several underage girls. Disgraced, he fades away from the movie scene and uses his unique combination of talents for the benefit of Madame Mona, pleasure-provider extraordinaire. As a bodyguard and gigolo, Lucky exacts revenge on the men who set him up by sexually pleasing their wives. His life of sexual addiction is ultimately unsatisfying... thrilling homage to pulp magazines and golden-age comic books¿ -Kirkus Discoveries
Since the 1980s there have been numerous reports of occult activity and other possibly supernatural phenomenon within certain villages and townships of Summit County, Ohio - an area collectively known as Helltown. When a group of out-of-town friends investigating the legends are driven off the road by a mysterious hearse, their night of cheap thrills turns to chills as they begin to die one by one.
It's late summer 1793, and the streets of Philadelphia are abuzz with mosquitoes and rumors of fever. Down near the docks, many have taken ill, and the fatalities are mounting. Now they include Polly, the serving girl at the Cook Coffeehouse. But fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook doesn't get a moment to mourn the passing of her childhood playmate. New customers have overrun her family's coffee shop, located far from the mosquito-infested river, and Mattie's concerns of fever are all but overshadowed by dreams of growing her family's small business into a thriving enterprise. But when the fever begins to strike closer to home, Mattie's struggle to build a new life must give way to a new fight-the fight to stay alive.
