Southern ghosts page 1, Invisible Ink--Books on Ghosts & Hauntings: Southern States 0

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Item #506

Angels and Apparitions, True Ghost Stories From the South, Barbara Duffey, 1997, photos, biblio, 189 pp $15.00

Some short, some scary, some sentimental, all very Southern. The woman who was startled by the gallant apparition of Major General "J.E.B." Stuart at her Gettysburg home. The young man who stole some flowers for his girlfriend from a grave, only to be confronted by the recently buried gentleman. Beautiful Barnsley Gardens, where Julia Barnsley still walks. Stories from Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and a few from West Virginia and Texas.

Item #504

Appalachian Ghost Stories and Other Tales, James Gay Jones, 1975, 109 pp. $9.95

Mostly ghost tales like "The Ghost of Zona Shue"--who gave evidence of her murder to her mother in a dream; or the ghostly Confederate soldier who is seen fleeing the bushwackers who cut his throat. A few witchcraft, murder, and folktales as well as the terrible "Flatwoods Monster"--ten feet tall with a blood-red face and nauseating odor.

Item #558

The Best of the Mississippi River Ghosts, Bruce Carlson, 1997, line art, 188 pp $9.95

A few catalogs back, Carlson had a series of three books on the ghosts of the Mississippi River. They are all out of print, but here he resurrects the best of the three in a single volume.

Item #505

Coastal Ghosts: Haunted Places from Wilmington, North Carolina to Savannah, Georgia, Nancy Rhyne, 1989, illus., index. photos, 192 pp. $9.95

The man who was buried alive. Bryan, drowned when a crab trapped him, who calls piteously for help while the tide rolls in. A bride, a groom, and a ghostly wedding ending with the suicide of a rejected suitor. Arranged north to south from Wilmington, North Carolina to Savannah, Georgia. For a great ghostly vacation, read the story, then visit the site.

Item #555

The Cold, Cold Hand, Stories of Ghosts and Haunts from the Appalachian Foothills, James V. Burchill, Linda J. Crider, Peggy Kendrick, 1997, 187 pp $9.95

Chillingly fine oral-tradition tales of haints and hollows. Some so inexplicable, they must be true, like the two headless children seen walking hand-in-hand to the cemetery or a tree that lit up and spoke to a passing rider. Perfectly captures the voice of the haint tale: "After a few years [the haunted house] just kinda died and fell in on itself." By the same authors as Ghosts and Haunts from the Appalachian Foothills. Outstanding!

Item #879

Dixie Spirits: True Tales of the Strange and Supernatural in the South, Christopher K. Coleman, 2002, 278 pp. $14.95

Another excellent book from Coleman! Blends history, legends, folklore, and contemporary accounts of haunted houses, motels, mansions and plantations, diabolical curses, mysterious monsters, and assorted fearsome and Fortean phenomena. The ghostly face of Henry Wells, blasted into the Pickens County Courthouse window, the many well-documented ghosts of The Myrtles, the truly creepy Happy Hollow Horror, with its bizarre apparition of a funeral procession—for a bloody, beheaded lamb, the restless spirit of Madeleine at Kings Tavern in Natchez, whose knifed skeleton was found behind a fireplace wall during remodeling, the many haunted houses of Robert E. Lee and his family. Gives addresses and phone numbers for haunted sites open to the public.

Item #507

Ghost Stories from the American South, Compiled and Edited by W.K. McNeil, 1985, extensive, scholarly notes on folklore motifs, line art, 170 pp. $9.95

One hundred tales drawn from oral tradition and folklore. The matter-of-fact and unpolished style makes these stories quite eerie. For example: [Two young boys have just seen a black thing emerge from a bush.] "It did not have no head....He was real black and he had nothing but white hands. His hands was so white they looked silver. You couldn't see nothing in the night but his hands beckoning for us, but we never did come where he was. He said he might git us the next time."

Item #556

Ghosts Along the Mississippi, Haunted Odyssey II, Jim Longo, 1993, photos, 195 pp We're sorry, this book is no longer available. Ask us to find you a nice used copy.

The odyssey continues from Minneapolis to the Delta. A Missouri condo where a misty-white figure materialized during a s�ance and a ghostly girl showed up in a photo. The ghost who cried "help me!" at St. Charles Community College. The Lady in Red who haunts the Goldenrod Showboat. The Hamlin Garland homestead where the famous author and spiritualist returns. Stories from Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Louisiana. Longo’s strong sense of people and community makes a very enjoyable book.

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