Maxim W. Furek has interviewed celebrity demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren . His highly acclaimed book, Sheppton: The Myth, Miracle & Music, investigates supernatural events during a 1963 Pennsylvania mining disaster. 

Coal Region Hoodoo: Paranormal Tales from Inside the Pit continues Maxim Furek’s sociological exploration inside the Pennsylvania high strangeness that gave birth to The Night of the Living Dead, The Blob, and The Philadelphia Experiment. His book is described as “A fascinating look into Pennsylvania’s paranormal wormhole through a never-seen-before sociological and popular culture lens.”

His journey takes us beyond the netherworlds of Centralia, Sheppton, Chestnut Ridge, and The Pennhurst Asylum. It looks into the eyes of demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren and the twisted souls of serial killer Gary Heidnik and con artist Richard Sharpe Shaver while exploring the preternatural secrets of Bigfoot, cryptids, Kecksburg, The Smurl Haunting, Pennsylvania Dutch Powwowing, and Roman Catholic Mysticism.

Miners claim that being trapped in the bottom of a coal mine is as close as one can ever get to being in Hell. Coal Region Hoodoo takes us even closer inside that forbidden, paranormal pit.

The author has been interviewed on paranormal programs Darkness on the Edge of Town, Darkness Radio, Dark Sun Rising, Midnight in the Desert (with Heather Wade), Normal Paranormal, and Para-X Radio.

Published by Beyond the Fray, Publishing.

Maxim W. Furek’s rich background includes aspects of psychology, addictions, and music journalism. He considers himself a student of the paranormal and has explored and published numerous articles on what some have called “The Coal Region Hoodoo.” He has a master’s degree in Communications from Bloomsburg University and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Aquinas College.