Witches on the Road Tonight: Library Edition

from soccerposeur

surprisingly well written literary occult page turner based, it seems, on real-life personalities: Margaret Bourke-White, the photojournalist, and Erskine Caldwell (they were married)--and the 1970's Ohio show Ghoulardi (hosted by Ernie Anderson), which influenced the bands Pere Ubu and The Cramps.

from GCPLreader

Sheri Holman's latest is an odd, complex novel of family secrets and yes, witchcraft. Eddie is a former late night horror show host (I can certainly remember the one from my childhood on our local independent tv station) who has cancer and is reaching out to his unhappy news-anchor daughter. Thro...

from porch_reader

In Witches on the Road Tonight, we glimpse significant moments in the life of Eddie Alley. As a young boy growing up in the Appalachian Mountains during the Depression, Eddie and his mother Cora are visited by a writer and a photographer who are being paid to write about the area through a govern...

from Rdra1962

Another mystical realism novel - I am on a tear! They have all been good, this one was by the author of The Dress Lodger, a book I read for the Robert Adams lectures and enjoyed. This novel is VERY different! I enjoyed it, but found somethings vague and unclear. Sometimes mysterious is just confu...

from VirginiaG

Just finished 'Witches on the Road Tonight' by Sheri Holman. It was interesting. Not exactly what I thought it would be. The story jumps from the past to the present and sometimes in between. It is the tale of a dying weather man, Eddie, who also hosts a weekly horror movie night on a local telev...