Ghost Stories from the American South

by W.K. Mcneil, Byron K. McNeil, W.K. McNeil

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0935304843
• ISBN13: 9780935304848
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: August House Publishers
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 9 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 4 and higher

Customer Reviews

From the Back Cover

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 South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and much, much, more!

A wonderful anthology of encounters, or folklore if you want

My parents got me this book when I was about 13, and almost 8 years later I still remember stories of the Devil in Mexico, ghosts of Appalachia, and haunted mansions with bloodstains that won't go away. Whenever I get in a discussion with folks about encounters and stuff like that I can't help but tell at least one or two of these stories, and I always get the chills when I remember these stories, which tells me that while there may not be something to all the stories, there must be some nuggets of phenomenal truth in a few of these. Highly reccomended for ages 12 and up, a wonderful book and a great scare or two.