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Item #469

Best Tales of Texas Ghosts, Docia Schultz Williams, 1998, photos, sources, index, 394 pp $18.95

A medley of tales from Williams’ previous four books plus a hundred pages of all-new material from the Piney Woods of East Texas and from North Central Texas, including the Dallas area. The sad ghost of General "Black Jack" Pershing at Fort Sam Houston. A ghostly Ursuline nun at the Southwest Craft Center (once a convent/girls’ school)—in the winter she wears black; in the summer, white, just as she would have when alive. A very solid-looking ghost at the Wunsche Bros. Café and Saloon in Spring (north of Houston) who vanished with a "woosh" when offered a cup of coffee. The murdered John McMullen, seen by his partner, wearing a white nightshirt, blood pouring from the fatal wound in his neck, who still haunts the library building built on the site of his old home. "Liendo," haunted by the gasping cries of a little boy who died there of diptheria and was cremated in the fireplace of the front parlor.

What a tape! I got tears in my eyes listening to the title cut. Some stories taken from Spirits of San Antonio (see below). Tingle tells these stories at a deceptively deliberate pace, heightening the horror. If you listen to "Fang Baby" in the car, make sure your final destination is somewhere well-lit because I guarantee this tale will stick with you.... Caution: This is too gruesome for kids.

Side A: Room 636 at the Gunter, Donkey Lady of San Antonio
Side B: Dancing with the Devil, Fang Baby of Old Pearsal Road, Children of the Tracks

Wall lives on a ranch in the middle of the Texas Hill Country and he relates his own encounters with local ghosts, as well as those of the local cowboys, casually and matter-of-factly. A ghostly herd of white deer—or are they Apache spirits? The spectral Frank and his mother Sara, who politely turned down a cowboy’s offer of help to search for their father/husband. Haunted Valley, where the screams of Spanish soldiers ambushed by the Apache still echo. Interesting and non-sensational. Wall knows that anything is possible—out on the Devil’s Backbone. See Wall's two sequels: Ghostly Chills and Haunted Land.

A book of authentic Texas folktales interwoven with real-life historical happenings and characters of Texas. Classics like "La Llorona" and "El Muerto"--an Hispanic version of the Ichabod Crane story where a severed head, sombrero still attached, swings eerily from a saddle horn. Also real-life stories like the image of Christ that appeared on a screen door in Port Neches. For young adults.

Meet a hanged lady in black, a blood-covered soldier and his lover seen by a doctor who was called in by another ghost, and Miss Bettie who returns to play the piano in her family's Galveston mansion. For young adults.

Still more Texas terrors: The Governor's Mansion in Austin, whose north bedroom is haunted by a young suicide. To this day, the ghost wails, moans, and bangs at the walls, especially on Sundays--the day he shot himself. The plantation in Liendo--where the little boy Arthur who died of diptheria gasps for breath and calls for his mother. The ghostly stallions of Palo Duro Canyon. The headless boy of Geronimo. For young adults.

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