Free Download Shadows and cypress: southern ghost stories By Brown, Alan
2000 | 199 Pages | ISBN: 1578062705 | EPUB | 2 MB
A bewitching convocation of Dixie’s most frightening ghost talesFrom 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…
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