Bücher von William Hill

The Ruins of Cemetery RidgeThe Wreythville house of horrors lies in rubble. Despite the rising waters of South Holston Lake, the underwater mansion's evil spirits continue to haunt and curse any and all who seek its secrets, both human and undead alike. The shadows spread while the war between factions of vampires bleeds on. Supernatural predators roam the dark places of Appalachia, and a superior immortal breed hunts the cursed treasures of Von Damme's mansion. They seek vengeance against all those who entombed them long ago. A newborn vampire, Dillon, is learning on the fly to navigate the supernatural realm. He is a rare creature of light and darkness, healing and bloodlust, and one who walks the border between the Seen and Unseen worlds. He and his beloved, Mistress Elke, protect his hometown of Bristol and the surrounding communities from supernatural horrors. Dillon's former career as an investigative journalist and the couple's actions are viewed with suspicion by the Rulers of Night. A serial killer called the Oktoberfest Vampire terrorizes the good folks of Bristol, Tennessee/Virginia. The judge executor descends upon Bristol to ensure that vampires remain little more than a myth. In unknown opposition, several locals seek the truth and answers. Dr. 'Knives' Curran searches for why his senses are entangled and what happened to his blood brothers last summer. Sullivan County Deputy Marge Cantrell hunts her sister's murderer. A vampire hunter who believes that he is the 13th son of Galahad stalks evil and its reason for massing in Bristol. Tom Marader's sister, host of The Myth Huntress, and her girl-empowering Reality TV crew boldly dive into the lake's abyss to explore the ruins and its caves where monsters dwell. The dark secrets discovered therein will forever change the lives of humans, werewolves, and vampires. Who will survive the Ruins of the Vampire?

Whether for land, a chance for a new life, or for gold, California was the magnet that drew thousands of people during the 1840s, 50s and into the 60s. The California Trail was the way many emigrants and Argonauts chose.William Hill's book takes the reader there, starting at the various "jumping-off" places, across the Great Plains, the Rockies, the deserts, and finally over the Sierra Nevada. It examines the trail's historical development, alternate routes, and some of the available maps and guidebooks. Its extensive use of diaries enhances the reader's experience. Three diarists vividly describe the dreaded crossing of the Forty-Mile Desert and the Sierras. Especially impressive are its nearly 175 first-hand trail illustrations paired with relevant diary entries, comments and matching present-day photos. Most of the historic sites, fine museums and displays along the trail are also described.

A guide to the history and the route of the Corps of Discovery that commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition. It features journals, maps, paintings and photographs that serve to vividly contrast the US that Lewis and Clark ventured through to the land that the modern adventurers will pass through.

Easy to use historical guidebook, whether you are in an armchair or an automobile; this book is divided into sections on the history, diaries, and noteworthy sites along this important historic trail that led 19th century emigrants westward to the West. Contemporary and historical photographs illustrate the book throughout.

Offers a description of the history of the Oregon Trail - from past to present. This book features a blend of maps, guides, emigrant diaries, journals, and old drawings as well as photographs of important locations along the trail.

Bill Hill was the city editor of The Sedalia Democrat newspaper from 1960-1965. After Bill's death in 2014, his daughter JoAnn Hill Holcomb found the manuscript her father wrote for a book about Sedalia and Scott Joplin. She meticulously transcribed the manuscript and is publishing it as as written between 1960 and 1967. It is valuable for the interview accounts he described with the original surviving ragtime composers, G. Thomas "Tom" Ireland and Arthur Marshall. Bill's notes for the manuscript were lost but he does frequently cite his sources in the text of his book."A Cradle for Ragtime" sheds light on the environment in which Joplin's classic ragtime compositions were written and on the remarkable nature of the composer's work.

Wreythville's cemetery had rested quietly beneath South Holston Lake for decades, but now a drought and receding waters have exposed an island of graves. Those coffins should have been moved when the dam was constructed, but no one, certainly not the TVA, wanted to go near such cursed ground, nor what lurked within the hidden pine boxes. Some things were best left alone. And yet, more than a half century later, a reunion of childhood friends disturbs the newly emergent graves and discover a lakebed-dwelling mansion of haunts. Where the blood brothers seek adventure, they find death, dark transformation, and a vengeful new breed of the undying. A malevolent spirit and its kindred, an ancient breed of blood drinkers, return with frightful new powers that defy the sunshine. These vampires can stalk by day to exact vengeance on those who entrapped them. Vanishings and murders plague God's Country as former nightwalkers work to reclaim Holston Valley and stalk the shadows of Bristol. Von Damme's zealots and vampires will let nothing stop them, not the eroding waters, not the forest afire, not even the glare of broad daylight. Troy, Silke, and his blood brothers must ally with the forces of darkness if they have any hope of stopping the Dawn of the Vampire.