Shadows and Cypress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shadows and Cypress write by Alan Brown. This book was released on 2009-09-28. Shadows and Cypress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From backwaters as dark as a cypress swamp to nooks as mysterious as a musty college library, southerners have conjured spirits and told ghost stories. Shadows and Cypress: Southern Ghost Stories is a Dixie séance that summons ghost tales from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Collecting more than a dozen stories from each state, this book channels the South's entire panorama of creepy locales into one volume. The limestone caves of Kentucky, the swamps of Louisiana and Florida, the pine hills and hollows of Appalachia, and the plains of Texas—these are perfect haunts for a host of narratives about visitors from the spirit world. The many cultures that converged in the American South enriched the region's ghost stories. Shadows and Cypress taps African American, French, Hispanic, and Scotch-Irish storytelling traditions to capture the distinctive signatures that each has left on ghostlore. Throughout the region, the southern ghost story is hardly a curio from the crypt. It is still alive and well. Folklorist Alan Brown draws stories from crannies as contemporary as the college dormitory or cars parked on a lover's lane. To give the reader the unique experience of hearing a classic ghost story told, Brown presents these tales exactly as they were recorded in his field research or as archived in the trove of the WPA oral collections. A wide variety of specters found only in this region arise in Shadows and Cypress. The “fillet” and “loogaroo” from Louisiana, “plat-eye” from South Carolina, and “haints” from across Dixie are among the creatures bumping in the night. Beginning with the Revolutionary War and continuing to the present day, this generous gathering of tales will chill and delight readers and long haunt shelves as a comprehensive sourcebook of the region's supernatural allure.
Southern Ghost Stories
Southern Ghost Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Southern Ghost Stories write by Allen Sircy. This book was released on 2022-09. Southern Ghost Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Southern Ghost Stories returns to the most haunted town in Tennessee with a new collection of ghost stories and legends. In the follow up to Ghosts of Gallatin, Tennessee Hauntstorian Allen Sircy digs into more haunted cemeteries, historic homes and some surprising places where things go bump in the night. From a mischievous mannequin that supposedly moves around at night to a little old man who watches over an antique shop, Gallatin is filled with some peculiar spirits. Some of the phantoms are friendly, while others can be a little mischievous. With each ghostly tale, Southern Ghost Stories invites you to explore the town square to see what you might find- one more time.
Tales from the Haunted South
Tales from the Haunted South - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tales from the Haunted South write by Tiya Miles. This book was released on 2015-08-12. Tales from the Haunted South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Southern Ghost Stories
Southern Ghost Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Southern Ghost Stories write by Allen Sircy. This book was released on 2022-09. Southern Ghost Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On November 30th 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood's mighty Army of Tennessee marched down Winstead Hill to launch a full frontal assault on Federal Forces entrenched at the Carter House, a half mile from the Franklin Square. The subsequent bloody battle overwhelmed the town, leaving thousands of abandoned dead soldiers to bury, and even more broken and tattered men to tend to. In addition to all the death and carnage from the war, Franklin was rocked by a series of fires in the 19th century as well as several gristly murders that jolted the sleepy little Southern town. From sprawling plantations to a charming town square, tales of ghostly activity are around every corner. Some of the entities in these stories are playful, while others are quite restless and mischievous. With each ghostly tale, Southern Ghost Stories: Franklin, Tennessee dives into the city's complicated history and invites you to explore the town to see what you might find.
Phantom Army of the Civil War
Phantom Army of the Civil War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Phantom Army of the Civil War write by Frank Spaeth. This book was released on 2008-05-15. Phantom Army of the Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a haunting collection of personal encounters with the spirit world as they appeared in FATE magazine. These are tales handed down over the years that have their basis in the horrors of the Civil War.
