A few collected Ong’s Hat literary references from 2014. Other references pre-2014 can be found on the Reviews page. I only include the ones which directly relate to the legend as told in my works, not the historic references about the lost town itself.
Notice: Inclusion in this list in NO WAY IMPLIES AN ENDORSEMENT
Ong’s Hat spin off novels by other writers:
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- SMED 34 Success Secrets: 34 Most Asked Questions On SMED – What You Need To Know (Absolutely no idea what this hot mess is, but it references Ong’s Hat and Transmedia)
- Conspiracy! The Movie, The Novel (Ong’s Hat Ashram legend plays a significant role in this book)
- The Haunting of Ong’s Hat
- Ong’s Hat by Steven Reeves (actually uses the Egg and the travel cults as a central theme in the story)
- Ong’s Hat and a mysterious cult called The Ong’s Hat Flagellants plays a major role in Turnpike Flameout
- Ong’s Hat and mysterious non-existent books describing dimensional portals (Ong’s Hat: Adventures of Other Dimensions and Time) used in the plot of Quhaunt’em: a novel
Other references (non-fiction)
- My interview with Nick Herbert (from Ong’s Hat) referenced in The Physics of Miracles: Tapping in to the Field of Consciousness Potential
- Ong’s Hat section in The Geomantic Year: A Calendar of Earth-Focused Festivals that Align the Planet with the Galaxy
- Ongs Hat mentioned in The Big Book of New Jersey Ghost Stories
- Ong’s Hat mentioned in New Jersey Ghost Towns: Uncovering the Hidden Past
- Ong’s Hat: The Beginning cited in Prisoner of Words
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- My friend D.R. Haney: Room 32 – A great story all on it’s own, but with the strange appearance of a picture from room 32 where the phrase “Jim is in Ong’s Hat” can clearly be seen. (also ran on Salon) The rest of “Room 32″ is now available as an e-book in the Kindle Store. To get it, please click here.
Click to enlarge picture from DR Haney’s visit to Jim’s old room
News and Popular Media
- A political post from Salon, , AUG 26, 2010 which has the quote: “The summer of 1963, then, was marked by graduation from the liturgical approach of loose, liberal Christianity to the crazy quilt Moorish Orthodox Church of America, my natural next home. An offshoot or perhaps incarnation of the Moorish Science Temple, the MOCA comprised a group of jazz musicians, poets, artists, improvisational comics and a few deeply weird people like the guy with the mustache and cape (that’s all I ever knew of his identity — he much resembled Brian Stack’s “The Interrupter” from the Conan O’Brien show decades later). As an acolyte of Salvador Dali (along with one of my close friends from school, who also taught martial arts and built explosive devices), the MOCA was a natural magnet for someone like me. It’s served me well off and on over the years as it has waxed and waned as a force. The nominal headquarters still operate in Ong’s Hat, N.J., in case anyone might conceivably be interested.”
Joseph Matheny 