Swamp Gas Books

In September of 1944, the town of Mattoon, Illinois was paralyzed with fear as dozens of residents reported someone spraying a sickeningly sweet gas through their bedroom windows that was terrifyingly causing partial paralysis in the victims.  Eventually, academia and the local legal authorities proclaimed the entire incident to be a textbook case of mass hysteria...but was it? A indepth look at the complex series of events reveals new clues, indicts a suspect and proposes a motive for America's prototype chemical terrorism.  The Mad Gasser of Mattoon was named one of the top books on Illinois history from 2003 by the Illinois State Historical Society. A revised and illustrated edition is planned for the near future.

106 pgs. ISBN 0972860509 $7.95