'Stunned at the sheer brutality': Author Casey Sherman's 'Helltown' explores Costa serial murders on Cape Cod

Provincetown: Creepy setting for a horror showWhile we wait and wonder if "American Horror Story" will film in Provincetown, here's a spooky tour o...

June 5, 2022
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Provincetown: Creepy setting for a horror showWhile we wait and wonder if "American Horror Story" will film in Provincetown, here's a spooky tour of creepy locations.While growing up in Hyannis, best-selling author Casey Sherman had heard about Antone 'Tony' Costa, the serial killer from Provincetown in the late 1960s, but Sherman focused any attention related to gruesome murders on the darkness in his own family.His aunt had been the final victim of the Boston Strangler from about the same era, and that case in 2003 inspired the first of Sherman's 15 books and an investigation into a type of horror he said he was not eager to revisit.

Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll