The Granny Curse: And Other Ghosts and Legends from East Tenessee

by Janet Barnett and Randy Russell

Book Overview

Twenty-five tales, all based in historical fact or tied to an actual location and intertwined with regional Eastern Tennessee folklore.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895871858
• ISBN13: 9780895871855
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Blair
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Gives you the creeps!

I have other books on Appalachia folklore, and this is at the top of the list. It's fun, colorful, and gives you the creeps! Like the late Charles Edwin Price, Randy Russell and Janet Barnett have compiled a rich array of stories from East Tennessee; the perfect book to read -- whether to yourself or to others -- on those "dark, stormy nights."

Great Ghost Stories

This is a great book I love ghost stories and think they are really good I read this book about 5 times and was scared eveery time! (a REALLy good book will do that u know!!)

Great Stuff for Storytellers!

First of all, I like ghost stories rooted in history and place. All 25 stories in this collection are wonderful examples of folklore and of the people of the Cumberland and Blue Ridge mountains of Tennessee. You can almost touch the trees in the forest and hear the water moving over rocks. Did you know you can tell your future by counting the number of seeds in an apple? One story here tells you how. More importantly for me as professional storyteller, I found the authors had a very good ear for dialogue and *voice*. I havealready used two of the stories, Footprints in The Snow (Pigeon Forge)-- and the title story Granny Curse, and both met with very good success! Great for reading aloud -- but don't read them alone at night.