title: Journeys to the Brink of Doom
author:  T. W. Kriner 
description: "This is a great book. I got into work one of the mornings last week and I got this envelope and I looked inside and there was this book, Journeys to the Brink of Doom: True Stories of Disaster, Mystery, and Heroism at Niagara Falls. I picked it up during one of the news breaks and I didn't put it down. And then the next news break I picked it up and didn't put it down. And then the next newsbreak . . . you get the idea. Then I went to my office right after the show and I just read it from cover to cover." -- <i>Tom Bauerle, WGR Radio</i><br /><br />[T. W.] Kriner takes a look at the dark side of Niagara Falls in this oddly disturbing little book, a compendium of tales of lives lost and saved amid the fury of the cataract. Actually, more are lost than saved in this book. Nearly 90 tragedies, some involving multiple loss of life, but many involving suicides, are collected here. So are about a dozen heroic rescues and a couple of mysteries. Kriner, a Niagara Falls native now living in Williamsville, is a polished writer. His reporting is to the point and his story telling is entertaining, but there's no mistaking the dark side here--a side this member of the Horror Writers Association can't resist attributing to Tawiskaro, a demon of Native American lore who demands at least four lives a year. -- <i>Buffalo News, June 22, 1997</i>
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  ## Pilgrimage to Hell
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Deathlands - 1 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### James Axler
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  On a crisp January day, a Presidential Inauguration day, a one-megaton blast
  ripped through the Soviet embassy in Washington DC.
  
  
  Subsequent explosions around the globe changed the face and the shape of the
  earth forever. Out of the ruins emerged Deathlands, a world that conspired
  against survival.
  
  
  In the blasted heart of the new America, a group of men and women plan
  desperately to escape the eerie wastes and mutated life forms of their nuclear
  hell. Three Warriors — the tough, intelligent Ryan Cawdor, an enigmatic beauty
  called Krysty Wroth, and the armorer J.B. Dix, — set out on a harrowing
  journey to find a rumored enclave high in the mountains.
  
  
  Their aim: to unlock the secrets of pre-war scientific experiments that could
  hold the answer to survival in the Deathlands of the future.
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## James Axler
  
  
  ## Pilgrimag