More Ghosts of Georgtown

by Elizabeth Robertson Huntsinger

Book Overview

If you visit Pawleys Island, you may be greeted by a pair of friendly terriers frolicking at the edge of the ocean. If you find yourself at Wedgefield Plantation on a moonlit night, on the other hand,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895872099
• ISBN13: 9780895872098
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Blair
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Beware the Plat-Eyes

Elizabeth Robertson Huntsinger published her first book of Georgetown ghost stories in 1995 and followed it with this volume in 1998. In many ways this book resembles it's predecessor except that the writing style is much better in this entry. It is indeed very obvious that Mrs. Huntsinger has grown as an author and that is quite a feat considering that her first venture was very well written. Her first book contained hardly any first person accounts of hauntings and although this entry could use a few more of these eyewitness accounts they are certainly more in evidence in this book than in the last. There are a couple of chapters that don't deal with ghosts in a real way but those chapters aren't all that distracting and the chapter dealing with Hags and Plat-Eyes is completely understandable since these two entities are such a staple of Southern lore. The area around Georgetown was a leading rice producing area before the Civil War and many of the stories contained in this book come from the old rice plantations of Georgetown County. Throw in a pirate or two, a haunted lighthouse and a headless British soldier and you have the recipe for a very good ghost book. One would have to wonder how this author could fail to produce an interesting book with such fine material to work with but I can assure you that many authors could fall flat on their faces with this material. Mrs. Huntsinger does an admirable job of telling these stories and she does so with the charm of a real Southern lady. She has an enthusiasm for her subject and a fondness for the area that come through loud and clear in her writing and this combination is always a distinct plus in this genre of book. This book will definitely accompany me on my next trip to the South Carolina low country so that I can follow the directions the author so kindly provides to the sites she discusses. Then maybe, just maybe I will see the Terriers of Pawleys Island or the floating coffin of Kinloch Plantation for myself.

Even better than the original!

After reading "Ghosts of Georgetown" for the first time, I had to read the second one. This was even better.