Reviews

The New York Grimpendium: A Guide to Macabre and Ghastly Sites in New York State by J.W. Ocker

binxthinx's review

4.0

Entertaining, lots of interesting stories and factoids. Many places are not that exciting (not particularly interesting tombstones or plaques or private residences), but the author does a good job making them interesting to read about, if not visit. Unfortunately the author has a knack of not hitting places at the right time (misses a huge festival by a mere 12 hours, goes to a bar in the early afternoon), which may be related to poor research skills or misanthropy. Either way, a fun read.
One small gripe is there a lot of obvious grammar or homonym errors and this book could have used some editing, as it comes across as very blog posty (as his other book like this does).