Book Club

I’m not sure why, but I had the urge to reread John Keel’s The Mothman Prophecies recently. I had orginally come across the book in 1991, when Illuminet Press did a photo reprint of the 1975 original (Ron Bonds kindly sent me a copy to review; that year Illuminet had also published Kerry Wendell Thornley’s The Idle Warriors). What struck me the first time was the vivid, gloomy and atmospheric snapshot of Ohio and West Virginia in the late 1960s/early 1970s; the second time, I picked up all of the reference material used for The X-Files. I’ve always loved 60s remembrance—the aforementioned Confessions of a Hoaxer was a favourite book as a teenager for this very reason.