Author Eric Stanway to sign copies of ‘The Old Rindge House’ in at Peterborough’s Toadstool Bookshop

Thursday, January 26, 2012

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Eric Stanway, author of “Old Rindge House,” which unveils an overlooked slice of New Hampshire history, will hold a book signing at Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough on Jan. 28.

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Author Eric Stanway will hold a book signing of “The Old Rindge House.”

WHEN: 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 28.

WHERE: Toadstool Bookshop, 12 Depot Square, Peterborough.

PETERBOROUGH – The recently published “The Old Rindge House” by Eric Stanway offers an overlooked slice of New Hampshire history.

There is an ancient legend in Rindge pertaining to one old house. In the year 1817, a fugitive artist came to this home and began painting a series of murals. What followed was a mysterious disappearance, initiating a series of events that would end in terror and death.

“The Old Rindge House” recounts this local legend and examines the history behind it with lavishly illustrated paintings, photographs and maps.

Stanway will hold a book signing at the Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 28.

Stanway is a writer, artist and musician with more than three decades of experience. He has illustrated a number of adaptations of classic horror stories by Ambrose Bierce, Robert Louis Stevenson and Charles Dickens.

Stanway also adapted the film “Night of the Living Dead” and collaborated with Clive Barker on “Night of the Living Dead: London.” He writes the column “A Taste of History” for The Nashua Telegraph and lives in Fitzwilliam with his significant other, an extended family and Duncan, a huge black cat.

Stanway can be reached at eric.stanway@yahoo.com. “The Old Rindge House” is available for $9.95 at Amazon.com.

The Toadstool Bookshop is at 12 Depot Square in Peterborough. For more information, call 924-3543.