© 2009-2010 Stephen Klimczuk and Gerald Warner of Craigenmaddie

Publishing industry insiders who were given a sneak peek at the final manuscript called it “dangerously eclectic,” “addictive, compulsive reading”–and “a delicious armchair travel guide to the places you can’t go to.”

Reviews, comments, and critiques will be posted here after the book’s North American release in late 2009 and also following the UK / European publication date in February 2010.

The American Spectator ran the following review (“Forget Dan Brown – You should be reading Secret Places, Hidden Sanctuaries”).

The Rome-based Catholic news agency Zenit also recently ran this interview with the authors.

From a totally different (ie, Masonic) quarter, the following review has appeared in the January/February 2010 Scottish Rite Journal, published by the “Supreme Council, 33°, Southern Jurisdiction, USA.”

In his weekly column for InsideCatholic.com, John Zmirak published this review: “Everybody Loves a Secret.”

Dea Mallin, Contributor Editor of The Cultured Traveler, has written about the book here, for the Philadelphia Weekly Press.

The Daily Telegraph also ran the following review in its travel section.

Other recent reviews include those in The Armiger’s News (Winter 2010), Fortean Times (May 2010), Chronicles (May 2010), First Things (June/July 2010), The Chap (June/July 2010), The Social Register Observer (Summer 2010), Subterranea (June 2010) and Canadian Monarchist News (Spring-Summer 2010).

In the meantime, Sterling Publishing has also said the following:

“And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places . . . ” (Isaiah 45:3)

“So begins this thrilling guide to the most secretive sites around the globe, from ancient shrines to off-limits military installations, that few travelers have or will ever visit —including many that most of us don’t even know about.

Gain unprecedented access to such secret places and hidden sanctuaries as:

· The former chapter-house of Valencia Cathedral in Spain, where it’s claimed the Holy Grail is held

· Montecristo, the most closely guarded island on earth, where a fabulous treasure waits to be unearthed

· Wewelsburg Castle in Westphalia, Germany, the “Satanic Vatican” esoteric headquarters of Heinrich Himmler’s murderous SS

· Disneyland’s Club 33, the officially-nonexistent private retreat designed personally by Walt Disney before his death, with a membership waiting list said to be fourteen years long

· The cavern of the Beati Paoli, a black-robed and hooded secret society of assassins in Palermo, Sicily

· The ‘Arctic Eden,’ where the seeds of all the world’s varieties of plants are stored as a precaution against ecological disaster

· America’s legendary university secret societies whose influence shaped many of the present leaders of the country’s society

· And many more…”