Bill Russo: 31 books

Grahm Jr. College was arguably the best school in Boston for would be television and radio performers.Andy Kaufman (Latka on Taxi) studied Transcendental Meditation there; although no such course was offered.The author of this book, Bill Russo, studied Jazz and 'the Dozens'...

From the man with the longest fingers in boxing to a collection of the adventures of both bad and good girls, here’s a group of new stories by Bill Russo - the author of The Creature From the Bridgewater Triangle and the Ghosts of Cape Cod.His narrative of meeting a “Little Foot” in the...

From Bill Russo, the author of The Creature From the Bridgewater Triangle, comes new tales from the 200 square mile area that is sometimes called 'America's Bermuda Triangle'. This time the stories are fiction - and yet these yarns come from a place where 'real' and 'unreal'...

Fifteen obscure heartwarming Christmas tales, most of them more than a century old, are brought to life in this delightful, family friendly collection. Unearthed from ancient magazines, books, and newspapers the stories have been updated and annotated for today’s readers by Bill Russo. From the...

Actually it was the names of Pile-of-Bones and Hot Springs that were lost, not the communities themselves. They were among a number of places in North America with names that were not considered proper. In the case of Pile-of-Bones, a group of citizens threatened to leave town if the name was not...

This is not a Halloween story though you might find monsters in it, depending on what your definition of a monster is. Rather, it is the tale of two young men in search of an eerie pond they read about in a book - a strange lake said to be filled with man-eating catfish. Against the counsel of a wily...

Taunton State Hospital for the Insane: an eerie New England campus of forty ornate 19th century buildings that have housed some of America’s most bizarre and dangerous criminals – murderous monsters who avoided the hangman’s rope only because they were judged to be lunatics. Sometimes punishment...

"I ain't black and you ain't white", that's what he said to me. I wasn't about to argue with the man since at 6 foot 2, and 320 pounds, he was twice my weight and a foot taller than I. He said he'd prove it and I was a little uneasy about what might happen next!

A Halloween tale straight from Hell for year round reading. It's the story of the mean spirited man named Jack whose despicable life resulted in the very first pumpkin being hollowed out, having a face carved into it, and a light placed inside. But it wasn't a pumpkin, it was a turnip. And...

Retired Police Chief Rick Bates is always eager to dive into a case - usually a case of wine. He didn't start drinking until he was 75; but now he's making up for lost time. But it's not all play and no work for Rick, Even in his 80s, he is a one man stone wall against the waves of...

Along the starway of infinity there are millions of planets just like Earth. We need not be concerned with them. There are however many billions more that are not like Earth – these represent the biggest threat to humankind.A slow moving, fragile rudimentary craft from the United States pierced...

Sherlock Holmes comes out of retirement in 1912 and travels to America to once again confront his arch rival Moriarty, who is poised to take over the United States, one piece at a time. As fishing with baited lines begins to give way to the age of steam powered trawlers dragging of the ocean bottom...

The train running from Bourne to Provincetown has a strange rider. Bearded and dressed entirely in black, with a wide brimmed hat, the ‘figure in black’ does not know who he is. He suffered a near fatal brain injury that left him with no memory, but gave him the curse/blessing of second sight....

An interactive, arcane collection of aphorisms, pithy tales, and odd facts - mostly about the third planet from the sun and its strange inhabitants