Tom Collins’s book, Exploring Asheville—Its History Attractions, Mysteries, Ghosts, and Tall Tales earned the top spot as the 2022 winner in the regional category at both the Independent Press Awards and the NYC Big Books Awards. Also winning in the NYC Big Book Awards was his novel, Beyond Visual Range, as a 2022 Distinguished Favorite in Military Fiction.
A Guidebook for Getting The Most Out of Visits to Asheville and the Western North Carolina Area.
Asheville History–important events and people in the city’s history
Attractions–things to do and to see in Asheville and neighboring areas
Mysteries and Ghost–stories at the heart of vortexes and hauntings
Tall Tales–in the Appalachian Mountain tradition
Mystery Writer, Tom Collins, departs from his usual genre to Explore Asheville–the city they call the Weirdest, Happiest, Quirkiest, and Most Haunted Place in America. It’s a book that tells a visitor everything they need to be Asheville Smart–things to do and see, but also the city’s secrets and mysteries along with its ghosts, if you believe in such things. If you don’t, you still might want to take care. Strange things happen in these quartz laden mountains. Oh, I also threw in a hardy dose of Appalachian Mountain tall tales, folklore, and legends, some alleged, some exaggerated and some hard to believe at all!
The book’s striking cover depicts the view down Patton Avenue toward City Hall painted by Asheville River Arts Districts’ artist Jeff Pittman.
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