The Mothman Chronicles

Troy Rondinone is professor of American history at Southern Connecticut State University. He holds a PhD in History from UCLA. His research focuses on American cultural, working-class, and radical history. He is the author of Nightmare Factories: The Asylum in the American Imagination, Friday Night Fighter: Gaspar "Indio" Ortega and the Golden Age of Television Boxing, and The Great Industrial War: Framing Class Conflict in the Media, 1865-1950. His writing has been featured in such publications as American Quarterly, The Washington Post, and Psychology Today and he has been interviewed by CNN, NPR, History.com, and NBC Connecticut.
Jeremy Chandler is an artist, filmmaker, and professor of photography & video at Southern Connecticut State University. His photographs and films have been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including Mindy Solomon Gallery (Miami), the Blowup Film Festival (Chicago), the Wassaic Project (New York), Volta (New York), and Balzer Art Projects (Basel, Switzerland). Based in New England, his work explores memory, masculinity, landscape, and the lingering traces of human experience through photographic portraiture, staged tableaux, and documentary and narrative film.
Together they collaborated on an experimental documentary, "The Unseen Thing" about the Mothman and the broader UFO culture that nurtured it.

List of Illustrations
Introduction
1 Flatwoods
2 The Thing
3 Year of the Garuda
4 The Silver Bridge
5 The Mothman Prophecies
6 Signs and Conspiracies
7 The Floodgates Open
8 Harbinger of a Good Time
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Sources
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index