Book features creepy buildings in the Northwest

Author Marques Vickers updated his edition of “Northwestern American Creepy Buildings: Their Storied Past,” identifying and profiling infamous and haunted western American buildings. He released an additional book similarly spotlighting notorious structures within the Pacific Coast.

Vickers' Northwest-focused edition identifies, photographs and profiles high-profile buildings in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and western Montana. The narrative provides specific locations detailing their accompanying legacy of tragedy.

Scandals, murder, abductions, vice and paranormal activities accompany physical locations in the book. Many current residents and tenants are unaware of the past notoriety. Some of the buildings have remained uninhabitable due to continued hauntings. The majority is nondescript and the buildings blend into the general landscape.

Profiles in the Spokane, North Idaho and neighboring regions include the Oasis Bordello Museum, Bates Motel, Fatty Carroll’s Variety, serial killer residential and murder sites for Donna Perry, Doug Carlile and Otto Zehm’s murder, Lil Danger and Edward Weed’s killings and Spokane’s Davenport Hotel historical fallen guest through the dining room ceiling. Other profiles include serial killers Ted Bundy and Gary Ridgway’s residences and murder locations, singers Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley’s suicide residences and other infamous sites.

Paperback editions are available through Amazon and numerous e-book online sales outlets.

Marques Vickers is the author of the Twisted Tours Guides series currently profiling 11 international urban cities. He has self-published over 125 books with multiple new editions currently in pre-production.