Book Description
Tales of hauntings, strange happenings and other local lore throughout the Palmetto state!
Author : S. E. Schlosser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0762768371
Tales of hauntings, strange happenings and other local lore throughout the Palmetto state!
Author : S. E. Schlosser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1493069918
Here we have a collection of unnerving tales of events that happened--and still do happen--in the collective back yard of the Deep South states. Accompanied by evocative illustrations, these compelling retellings of 43 popular folktales feature supernatural occurrences and ghosts of all sorts, from fiddling ghosts to the story of the Jack o'Lantern. Whether read around the fire on a dark and stormy night or in the backseat of the family van on the way to Grandma's, each expertly told tale is guaranteed to make readers look at the South--and over their shoulders--again and again.
Author : S. E. Schlosser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,91 MB
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0762789565
Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in the Peach State. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and stormy night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to grandma's, this is a collection to treasure.
Author : Nancy Roberts
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1643360361
Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady of American Folklore" and the title is well deserved. Throughout her decades-long career, Roberts documented supernatural experiences and interviewed hundreds of people about their recollections of encounters with the supernatural. This nationally renowned writer began her undertaking in this ghostly realm as a freelance writer for the Charlotte Observer. Encouraged by Carl Sandburg, who enjoyed her stories and articles, Roberts wrote her first book in 1958. Aptly called a "custodian of the twilight zone" by Southern Living magazine, Roberts based her suspenseful stories on interviews and her rich knowledge of American folklore. Her stories were always rooted in history, which earned her a certificate of commendation from the American Association of State and Local History for her books on the Carolinas and Appalachia.
Author : Nancy Roberts
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 50,17 MB
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1643360426
Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady of American Folklore" and the title is well deserved. Throughout her decades-long career, Roberts documented supernatural experiences and interviewed hundreds of people about their recollections of encounters with the supernatural. This nationally renowned writer began her undertaking in this ghostly realm as a freelance writer for the Charlotte Observer. Encouraged by Carl Sandburg, who enjoyed her stories and articles, Roberts wrote her first book in 1958. Aptly called a "custodian of the twilight zone" by Southern Living magazine, Roberts based her suspenseful stories on interviews and her rich knowledge of American folklore. Her stories were always rooted in history, which earned her a certificate of commendation from the American Association of State and Local History for her books on the Carolinas and Appalachia.
Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 9781617034831
Ghost stories from various southern states in America.
Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 29,43 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811736350
Phantoms from Indian conflicts, American Revolution, and the Civil War still wander South Carolina.
Author : S. E. Schlosser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,88 MB
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1493027999
Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for twenty-five creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in Michigan. Set in Michigan’s historic towns and sparsely populated backwoods, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again. Michigan folklore is kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser, and in artist Paul Hoffman’s evocative illustrations. You’ll hear otherworldly voices and things that go bump in the night, and feel an icy wind on the back of your neck on a warm summer evening. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and stormy night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to grandma’s, this is a collection to treasure.
Author : S. E. Schlosser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 2008-08-13
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1461746442
Suitably, hauntings and paranormal happenings in the Lone Star state are larger than life. Included in this must-read collection are tales of the ghost lights of Marfa, the werewolf of Elroy, and the Devil’s brand in the eternal roundup of El Paso. Your hair will stand on end as you read about the mysteries and lore in Spooky Texas.
Author : Tiya Miles
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1469626349
In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain. "Dark tourism" often highlights the most sensationalist and macabre aspects of slavery, from salacious sexual ties between white masters and black women slaves to the physical abuse and torture of black bodies to the supposedly exotic nature of African spiritual practices. Because the realities of slavery are largely absent from these tours, Miles reveals how they continue to feed problematic "Old South" narratives and erase the hard truths of the Civil War era. In an incisive and engaging work, Miles uses these troubling cases to shine light on how we feel about the Civil War and race, and how the ghosts of the past are still with us.