Ghost Stories from the American South (American Storytelling) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0935304843 ISBN 13: 9780935304848

Publisher: August House, 2005

Synopsis

More than 100 tales of the supernatural, drawn from Tidewater Virginia to the Lone Star State, are included in this collection.

This volume of supernatural narratives is, unlike most such volumes available today, taken from the folk tradition of the southern United Stated. A majority of the texts were collected in the last twenty-five years, although the tales are set in time periods ranging from the Revolutionary War to the present. Most of the items given here have never appeared in print before; in all cases, they have been maintained by oral tradition.

Among the 100 tales in this book – drawn from Tidewater Virginia to the Lone Star State – you can read about the face on the window of the Carrollton, Alabama courthouse, the Tex-Mex widower who was haunted by the ghost of his first wife until he paid the grocery bill, the Headless Gownsman at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and much more! These scary stories about haunted houses, banshees and graveyards are perfect for Halloween or a late night scare. More importantly, readers will learn about courage and resourcefulness.

About this title

About the Author:

W.K. McNeil Bio:

W.K. McNeil was born William Kinneth McNeil in Haywood County, North Carolina, in the Appalachian Mountain region. He received his B.A. in history at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee, his M.A. in history from Oklahoma State University, an M.A. in American folk culture from the Cooperstown Graduate Program of the State University of New York, and his Ph.D. in folklore from Indiana University. His dissertation was written about the history of American folklore studies and he has also published many biographical articles based on this work.


W. K. was a founding member of the History and Folklore section of the American Folklore Society and advisory editor to its journal The Folklore Historian. He became well known as a leading expert in writing histories of folklore as a professional discipline. He later became administrator for the Regional America Program of the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklife, and worked as a folklorist for the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas.

About this edition

• Publisher: August House
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0935304843
• ISBN 13: 9780935304848
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: McNeil W. K.