Posted: 12:50 March 7, 2009

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Mingo County UFOlogist and book author Kyle Lovern has been getting an astonishing number of "fresh phone calls" from witnesses documenting entirely new cases of unidentified flying objects and alien findings since the November release of his first book, Appalachian Case Study: UFO Sightings, Alien Encounters and Unexplained Phenomena.

Michael Knost online is calling for submissions for a new horror anthology. Here are the Submission guidelines from Michael Knost Online: http://pages.suddenlink.net/michaelknost/xmas.html

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Title: Appalachian Holiday Hauntings
Editors: Michael Knost and Mark Justice
Publisher: Woodland Press, LLC
Publication Date: November 1, 2009
Word count: 1000 to 3000 words
Pay: three-cents per word plus contributor copy (one-cent per word on reprints)

Submit to: xmasanthology@yahoo.com

Woodland Press, LLC will soon release Writers Workshop of Horror, a collection of articles and interviews -- written by or about some very big names -- tackling specific aspects of the writing craft as it relates to the horror and dark fiction genres. Release date and other information will be forthcoming.

See video at: http://www.wchstv.com/traveling/2008/twv080214.shtml

This ghostly anthology includes thirteen accounts of Mountain State ghostly manifestations, myths and mountain mythology, based on known legends from West Virginia. The title is Legends Of The Mountain State: Ghostly Tales From The State Of West Virginia. Themes included in this work are Mothman, the Ethel coalmine spector, the Chapmanville school haunting, the Ghost of #22 Mountain and many others. In the video, Editor Michael Knost, at right, discusses the top-selling title.

By David M. Kinchen
Huntingtonnews.net Book Critic

http://www.huntingtonnews.net/columns/081006-kinchen-columnsbookreview.h...

It has all the elements of a John Sayles ("Matewan") movie: Political corruption on a massive scale, a Bible Belt coal mining community where liquor was consumed and marital fidelity was regularly ignored...Not to mention a brutal murder that foreshadowed the "Black Dahlia" murder of Elizabeth Ann Short in Los Angeles 15 years later.

By JOSELYN KING
The Intelligencer, Wheeling, WV

WHEELING — When asked about his legacy and what his place in state history might be, former West Virginia Gov. Arch Moore replied, ‘‘I did my best.”

He was a wounded World War II veteran who came home, became a lawyer, a Congressman and governor of West Virginia. Later he would serve jail time.

The surprisingly rich depths of Mountain State folklore are again expertly mined by editor Michael Knost and thirteen dark scribes in Legends of the Mountain State 2: More Ghostly Tales from the State of West Virginia. Its lengthy, schmaltzy title aside, Mark Justice’s “Dancing in Time to the Beating Heart of the World” is a surprisingly poignant story in which a heartbroken pharmacist’s faith is restored with the help of a haunted hospital’s ghost nurse and a curmudgeonly janitor.

Carolyn Harmon
From The Cabell Standard

CHARLESTON - (Dec. 2, 2008) - In the mid-1960s summer evenings were commonly spent on porches, in southern West Virginia, taking in the warm mountain breeze, listening to the song of the bullfrog, and connecting stars together in the night sky.

One summer evening, when writer Kyle Lovern was 8, he and his family saw something else in the sky above their Mingo County home.

By David M. Kinchen
Huntingtonnews.net Book Critic
(see www.huntingtonnews.net)

"The Feuding Hatfields & McCoys" (Woodland Press LLC, 192 pages, $18.95) by Dr. Coleman C. Hatfield and F. Keith Davis is billed as a "time-line and pictorial history" to the 19th Century feud between the Kentucky McCoys and the West Virginia Hatfields.

It's a useful introduction to the subject, but it's not a scholarly book on the legendary feud. To be fair to the authors, they don't claim to produce such a work with this volume.

By David M. Kinchen
Huntingtonnews.net Book Critic

West Virginia often can be a scary state, and the 13 stories included in the anthology "Legends of the Mountain State: Ghostly Tales from the State of West Virginia" (Woodland Press, Logan, WV, 160 pages, $18.95) graphically demonstrate just how scary.