Top Ten Free Books by Bill Russo (Bridgewater Triangle)

Somewhere inside the Bridgewater Triangle - Southeastern Massachusetts

At age 76 (as of May, 2020) I am blessed with good health, good family and friends and good fortune.  I receive Social Security, a small pension, and a little bit of income from some books and short stories that happily have found favor with a number of readers.  But most of my writing is free and I would like to share with you, the most recent top ten list of my work.  

    All of these books, and many others are free on Smashwords.             I also  have a few free on Amazon and Apple, but those sites restrict free books to just a few, while Smashwords actively encourages writers to share their work without charge.  I hope you'll check out these titles and also my others. 

Here are a few photos from some of my collections:   

This is the Admin Building of the very real and frightening Taunton State Hospital, which inspired my book 'Hauntin Taunton'.  Here's a recent five star review of the book:  'Short stories, some interwoven, from within Taunton State Hospital: I call some collections easily overlooked, as the title isn't the kind we search in search engines and browsers.
This one had some pretty good stories, no major format issues either. The wall-walker and even the Devil make their appearances, and some stories are refreshingly NOT just haunted asylum, or ghost story.
Fun for an evening, worthy to be checked-out.'     

   

The great stone tower of Princess Scargo, overlooking her serene and pleasantly haunted lake in Dennis on Cape Cod, is featured in many of my stories as part of the fascinating lore of the lady who saved her tribe from extinction when she inspired them to pick up clamshells from the ocean and dig a lake, in the shape of a fish.  It's said that the water to fill the pond, came from the tears of the princess. 

 

This is the Discovery Channel's representation of the Creature From the Bridgewater Triangle, as shown in Season Two of Monsters and Mysteries in America on Discovery's Destination America Channel. 

    

This is 'The Nip' at the town line of Raynham and Bridgewater, in the beating heart of the Triangle.  Lake Nippenicket is on average just three feet deep.  At its greatest, it is just six feet from the surface of the water to the sandy bottom - and yet this deceptively calm looking pond of some 350 acres has claimed the lives of so many swimmers and waders, that the town of Bridgewater forever banned swimming at 'The Nip' or even wading in the water.  Violators can be fined, arrested or both.  How can a lake three to six feet deep take so many lives?  Short answer: It's part of the Bridgewater Triangle!    

This final photo is from a very real lake in Cape Cod that inspired the very surreal stories about a young amphibious boy who looked more like a fish than a person - Jimmy Catfish.  His origin story is found in my book Swamp Tales, which has been in the top 20 of horror books on Amazon for several years.  The tale continues in Jimmy Catfish, the Beginning and the End - which contains the first tale as well as the prequel that fills in the background of his parents and Jimmy's sad life as a youth shunned by people, but adopted by the sharp toothed, killer catfish who inhabit an eerie lake of three separate waters: Salt, Fresh, and Brack. This book and all the others shown above are waiting for you for FREE at Smashwords:   https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/657900