Southern Ghosts Page 4, Invisible Ink--Books on Ghosts & Hauntings

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Item #516

Ozark Ghost Stories, Richard and Judy Dockrey Young, 1995, line art, 176 pp. $12.95

From Old Raw Head to ghost lights, these traditional Ozark stories are blended with urban legends and true contemporary ghost stories. The tale of "Blood in the Root Cellar." The tragic outcome of a "dumb" supper.

Item #499

Phantom Army of the Civil War and other Southern Ghost Stories, Frank Spaeth, 1997, 238 pp $9.95

Not just about phantom soldiers, but a collection of stories originally published in FATE Magazine about ghosts in Alabama, Arkansas, Flordia, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia. The ghost of a little slave girl who showed her human playmate a shed full of slaves’ bones. A haunted piece of skull that wreaked havoc until it was buried. A ghostly blond who bestowed a rose on Hugh Lynn Cayce. Not much documentation and the usual breathless FATE style, but quite an entertaining book.

Item #789

Slave Ghost Stories, Tales of Hags, Hants, Ghosts & Diamondback Rattlers, Nancy Rhyne, 2002, 152 pp, $14.95

An unusual collection of first-hand narratives from blacks who lived and worked on southern plantations. Collected by the WPA, these are sometimes rambling , sometimes pithy accounts of hants, spooks, and other supernatural creatures, many seen by people “born with a caul.” Lots of first-hand material here for storytellers to mine, as well as folklorists. My favorite line in the book: “You ask me how ghosts smell. They smell like ghosts—that’s all I can tell you. How you speck they smell?”

Item #517

Southern Ghosts, Nancy Roberts, 1979, illus., index, photos, 71 pp. $8.95

Is the South truly the most haunted part of the USA? Elizabeth Routt, the female Bluebeard who murdered 6 husbands and still walks in her wedding gown. The ghost of Belle Boyd, Confederate spy. And the ghostly woman who haunted Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter's house in Plains. All enhanced by weird black and white photos.

Item #788

Specters and Spirits of the Appalachian Foothills, James V. Burchill and Linda J. Crider, 2002, 182 pp $12.99

A man who appeared in a picture taken at his great-grandson’s birthday party—13 years after the man’s death. A confederate soldier still looking for his commanding officer, General Braxton Bragg. A red-haired woman who died in a car wreck and appears in speeders’ rear-view mirrors to warn them of danger. Some legends/ folklore, some very real stories, all from people who say that they are true.

Item #518

A Wayfaring Sin-Eater And Other Tales of Appalachia, James Gay Jones, 1983, 124 pp. $9.95

A "sin-eater" was paid to eat bread that had lain upon a corpse, thus "eating" (or taking upon himself) the sins of the dead person. The sin-eater of the title story is doomed to roam the mountains forever. The restless Confederate spirits of Droop Mountain, Sid's Haunted Hotel, where a night's stay might earn you a watery grave.

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