Ghost-story writer MaryJoy Martin brings to life the twilight dwellers of Colorado in this new release. During the past several years, the author has collected thrilling and vivid accounts from her "midnight maneuvers" among the dead and not so dead to include in this enlarged second edition. A book of inexplicable phenomena, Twilight Dwellers will haunt and delight you.
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A native of Florida, MaryJoy Martin moved to Colorado in 1958 and was educated in Denver. As an investigative journalist with a background in history and the criminal sciences, she has been writing about the state's mysteries for thirty years. Her books include the popular "Twilight Dwellers: Ghosts, Gases, and Goblins of Colorado," and the recent award-winning, "The Corpse on Boomerang Road: Telluride's War on Labor 1899-1908". An extensive traveler, she has written articles on a wide range of subjects for state and national magazines and newspapers.
For 20 years she has written a humor column for the "San Juan Horseshoe," a parody periodical that also features her digital art. Her dozens of pseudonyms for that publication are an ongoing art-form in themselves, leaving readers guessing -- and Martin wondering -- who she is sometimes. "Just call me 'Empress of Aliases,'" she says from behind a frog mask.
Her serious and scholarly work has solved 100-year-old crimes, changing what was accepted as historical fact. Some reviewers have called her a "tenacious investigator" and a "dedicated researcher," but Martin says her determination to hunt down the last scrap of a story is "obsession." She seeks primary materials and documentable evidence with the focus of a bloodhound, spending weeks and months lost in dusty court record rooms, state archives, or special library collections. She has a deep affinity for archivists, extolling them as the "guardians of our heritage."
"Some archivists deserve monuments in their honor for their expertise and patience and willingness to always assist," Martin says, "especially William W. LeFevre at the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University; David M. Hays at the Archives of the Norlin Library, University of Colorado at Boulder; and Leslie C. Shores at the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming. "I have to say I absolutely love these people and admire the work they, and others like them, do in preserving our history. I have never met an archivist I didn't like."
Martin is a member of the Colorado Historical Society and has contributed to the preservation of the state's labor history, including having Ft. Peabody added to the National Register of Historic Places -- for further information go to this link: http://www.tellurideminersmemorial.coyotekiva.org/peabody.html
She is also an award-winning artist and photographer whose work is included in collections throughout the U.S.A., Scotland, England, and France. She created many of the portraits for "The Corpse on Boomerang Road," using scratched and blurred printouts from old microfilmed newspaper photos as her models.
Her heart belongs to the wilderness where she spends her free time relaxing on the edge of remote cliffs or singing with legions of coyotes and marmots.
For 20 years she has written a humor column for the "San Juan Horseshoe," a parody periodical that also features her digital art. Her dozens of pseudonyms for that publication are an ongoing art-form in themselves, leaving readers guessing -- and Martin wondering -- who she is sometimes. "Just call me 'Empress of Aliases,'" she says from behind a frog mask.
Her serious and scholarly work has solved 100-year-old crimes, changing what was accepted as historical fact. Some reviewers have called her a "tenacious investigator" and a "dedicated researcher," but Martin says her determination to hunt down the last scrap of a story is "obsession." She seeks primary materials and documentable evidence with the focus of a bloodhound, spending weeks and months lost in dusty court record rooms, state archives, or special library collections. She has a deep affinity for archivists, extolling them as the "guardians of our heritage."
"Some archivists deserve monuments in their honor for their expertise and patience and willingness to always assist," Martin says, "especially William W. LeFevre at the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University; David M. Hays at the Archives of the Norlin Library, University of Colorado at Boulder; and Leslie C. Shores at the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming. "I have to say I absolutely love these people and admire the work they, and others like them, do in preserving our history. I have never met an archivist I didn't like."
Martin is a member of the Colorado Historical Society and has contributed to the preservation of the state's labor history, including having Ft. Peabody added to the National Register of Historic Places -- for further information go to this link: http://www.tellurideminersmemorial.coyotekiva.org/peabody.html
She is also an award-winning artist and photographer whose work is included in collections throughout the U.S.A., Scotland, England, and France. She created many of the portraits for "The Corpse on Boomerang Road," using scratched and blurred printouts from old microfilmed newspaper photos as her models.
Her heart belongs to the wilderness where she spends her free time relaxing on the edge of remote cliffs or singing with legions of coyotes and marmots.
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Heart-pounding prose,
By Gary R Van Buren (Arvada, Colorado United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Twilight Dwellers: Ghosts, Ghouls & Goblins of Colorado (Paperback)
This book is exquisitly written,and Mary Joy Martin has that rare artistic gift that few writers truly have: An ability to turn ordinary prose into pure poetry. The mark of a really good writer is to take the stories they tell and to breath life into them, in effect, setting them to music, with tempo and rhythm, tone and beat. That's what this book has. Comparing this book to another forgettable one I read on American Hauntings is like comparing an artistic painting to a stick figure drawing. The one I read on American Hauntings had no flair, and was just straight facts about hauntings across America that chose and then presented their ghostly stories poorly, without the passion and color that Martin brings to her spooky tales of Colorado's restless spirits from the other side.Of course, I'm a skeptic either way, but it was Martin's way of telling her stories that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, and her vivid descriptions superbly painted the canvas of these etheral encounters that the other author on American Hauntings rendered as rudementary black and white sketches. Authors like Mary Joy Martin, on the other hand, leave me wanting to explore more of their work.
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