Myths and Legends in books, films, and television programming has gained momentum in the last ten years. Seven years ago I came across an ancient legend wedged into Lower Mythology throughout the islands of the Philippines. I was doing research on a short story when I came across the Legend Of The Aswang. I was so fascinated I researched and then went further by gaining information from many of my Filipino co-workers here in Anderson, Indiana. Happy to say, now in 2020 the innovative digital magazine Terror House Magazine has put my book, "The Islands Tell Of It" into a serialized format by publishing a new chapter each week.

In the once prosperous auto-manufacturing town of Anderson, Indiana, detectives Glenda McMahan and Luther Charles were handed orders from their superior to visit a woman who had been brutally attacked by a strange almost confusing assailant. Detective Mahan interviewed the victim, a college professor from Anderson University while Detective Charles gathered details from the attending physician. When Glenda caught up with her partner, she snickers, telling him, "This Prof. Rossen was attacked by The Creature From The Black Lagoon.

During the ever-growing case of victims in four months, McMahan and Charles venture into the very heart of darkness. Not only does their ideas about why these women were attacked change into savage murders of a ghoulish nature but Detective Charles's connection to the assailant gets personal when his pregnant fiance becomes a victim. With the arrival of FBI agent Wyla Stark, Glenda becomes a believer of a cursed human who at the age of adolescence turns into a grotesque shapeshifting creature with a nagging hunger for the unborn. Agent Stark is part Filipino with first hand knowledge of what this aswang is all about. Stark's grandmother, from the Philippines lost her mother one dark night as her father came back from a fishing expedition off the island of Panay. The List of victims get longer and the circumstances turn gruesome as the "Special Person Of Interest", her father is found savagely murdered in a wooded area in Northern Indianapolis.

As I was compiling the research, I became confused as to what, and who this creature could be. The various Filipina women I worked with at a local hospital explained to me they knew about this legend through an oral tradition handed down by their grandmothers. I learned how an individual can become Aswang, and when the transformation takes place. What Glenda, Luther, Wyla and the other agents find out is they are forced to go way out of police procedure to catch and take in the creature. So way out of the normal way of law enforcement, most of their colleagues will believe they have gone mad.

To experience a bizarre account of something not often known in a crime sage, go to www.terrorhousemag.com. "The Islands Tell Of It" by Patty Fischer.