| A dandy collection of first-person accounts of strange,
ghostly, and supernatural doings from Appalachia. Occasionally unpolished, often
unsettling, these tales follow some of the patterns of Appalachian ghostlore: the light or
apparition that warns of death, the ghost-wagon, come to fetch the dying, prophetic dreams
and the power of prayer. Some of these stories were almost unbearably strange: the crown
of feathers found in a dead boy’s pillow, ghostly nuns accompanied by vicious (and
equally ghostly) black and white dogs. Others are warm stories of family ghosts, like the
Christmas-loving grandpa who telegraphed a Dickens of a farewell to his family or the man
who returned to tell his son how to dispose of 700 frozen chickens! The back cover shows a
mysterious ball of light on the stairs where Zona Heaster Shue was found murdered. |
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