I like to blend the boundaries of fiction and real life in my novels, rubbing it so thin a reader begins to question the very nature of reality.
Some people, upon finishing The Man from Primrose Lane, have been inspired to Google-search some parts of the story before promptly freaking the fuck out when they realize how much of a novel about serial killers, time travel, and frog monsters really happened.
I’ve hidden dozens of easter eggs inside the book (and I will never reveal them all). But here are a few choice oddities. Click on the pics to jump down the rabbit hole:
Yes, an Ohio recluse, living under a fake name, with a large sum of money in savings, was found dead in his house and no one knows who he was.
Yes, Mansfield, Ohio, is home to Elektro the Robot and his fellow automatons.
Yes, a Loveland policeman really fired his gun at some kind of Frog Monster.
Yes, Ronald Mallet’s time machine is real.
Yes, the Cuyahoga River does catch fire.
Yes, the first paragraph of Episode 13 is from a true crime book I wrote in 2006.
