John Robert Colombo: 16 books
Tesseracts Fourteen
Strange Canadian Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
TESSERACTS FOURTEEN: Strange Canadian Stories, edited by John Robert Colombo and Brett Alexander Savory, features innovative short stories and poetry by 23 of Canada’s finest speculative fiction writers.
This anthology joins a 20+ year Canadian literary legacy that features the writing and...
Fascinating Canada
A Book of Questions and Answers
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Few people have read as widely in the field of Canadiana as has John Robert Colombo. The curiosity of this Toronto writer, editor, and anthologist knows few if any bounds when it comes to the lore, literature, history, culture, and character of Canada. He has an inquiring mind and he seems able to...
Jeepers Creepers
Canadian Accounts of Weird Events and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Here are over 40 scary, hair-raising, and frightening stories of the supernatural and the paranormal. These are first-person narratives that are unexplained and possibly inexplicable. All of them have been reported to John Robert Colombo, Canada's Master Gatherer of the Arcane, by men and women from...
The Midnight Hour
Canadian Accounts of Eerie Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
The Midnight Hour is amazing, amusing, and frightening. It will make you pause to wonder - about ghosts and spirits, fate and destiny, strange beasts and even stranger human beings. The accounts within describe encounters in Canada with monsters and mysteries from 1784 to the present. Editor and anthologist...
by John Robert Colombo
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Watch out! Here comes another mammoth book to thrill you and chill you and to frighten you to within an inch of your life! It comes bumping out of the night ... from John Robert Colombo, the master of the macabre! This new compendium delivers excitement and delight to everyone who finds the unknown...
by John Robert Colombo
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Mysteries of Ontario brings together, for the first time, some five hundred accounts of strange events and eerie experiences, each keyed to one of 250 places in the province. It turns out that, far from being a humdrum part of the planet in which to live and work, Ontario is a province that is alive...
Extraordinary Experiences
Personal Accounts of the Paranormal in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2004
When did you last have a psychic experience? Are you in the habit of seeing – or sensing – the presence of spirits and ghost? Have you ever spotted a lake monster or sighted a UFO? When did you last consult a fortune-teller, approach a medium work an Ouija board, or read an astrology column? Have...
by John Robert Colombo
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Here are Canada's haunted houses, ghosts and poltergeists, weird visions of the past and improbable visions of the future, and assurances that there is life after death. included are more than 175 accounts of such events and experiences told mainly by the witnessses themselves -- Canadians from all...
by John Robert Colombo
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
Here is a book to thrill and chill you!
It brings together sixty-nine stories of haunted houses, ghosts, poltergeists, apparitions, and other eerie events and experiences.
What is amazing is that all the stories are true - they actually happened - and they happened in Ontario!
Did...
by John Robert Colombo
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1984
Here is a list of three dozen of the top literary locales in the country. The selection of sites is necessarily subjective, yet it attempts to represent geographical, historical, social, and cultural concerns as well as strictly literary interests. Had this list been prepared by the editors of Michelin...
1000 Questions About Canada
Places, People, Things and Ideas, A Question-and-Answer Book on Canadian Facts and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
What are "snow worms"?
Are there more moose than people in the Yukon?
What is the meaning of the word "Niagara"?
Where will you find the world’s largest perogy?
Does Elvis have a street in Ottawa named after him?
What was Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s...
UFOs Over Canada
Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 1996
UFOs Over Canada presents in highly readable style sixty eye-witness accounts of UFO activity over Canada. For the first time, in one book, contributors from accross the country recount their personal experiences in their own words.
by John Robert Colombo
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Toronto has hosts of ghosts that go as far back as the War of 1812…and others as recent as the Nineties. From the spirit of the Keeper of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse to the four spectres that haunt the stairwells and corridors of Queen’s Park, our most conspicuously ghostly presences and sites...
Strange but True
Canadian Stories of Horror and Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
This is a chilling collection of 50 accounts of truly unusual events and experiences that are told by the people who experienced them. Are there ghosts here? Yes. Are there strange coincidences here? Yes. Are there strange creatures of the forest here? Yes. Are there conspiracies here? Yes. Are there...
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