Jeffrey Introduces Thirteen More Southern Ghosts: Commemorative Edition - Hardcover

Windham, Kathryn Tucker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0817318739 ISBN 13: 9780817318734

Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, 2015

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Jeffrey was the resident apparition in the Selma, Alabama, home of nationally-known folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham and the inspiration for Windham's best-selling collection of macabre tales that reveal two hundred years of Alabama's ghostly secrets, 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey. One of the most popular books ever published in the state, generations of Alabama children and students have been thrilled and chilled by Windham's spectral legends. Following the overwhelming success of 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey, Windham and Jeffrey began to journey across the South assembling a second collection of ghastly tales that repeat Windham's winning combination of traditional folklore, Southern history and culture, and family-friendly story-telling. In Jeffrey Introduces 13 More Southern Ghosts, Windham's disembodied friend roams the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida to recall thirteen more timeless, spine-tingling tales of baneful and melancholy spirits that spook the most stoic heart. Opening this volume is "The Girl Nobody Knew." One midsummer night in the genteel Kentucky mineral spring resort of Harrodsburg, a beautiful lady arrived at the town's grand hotel. The belle danced late into the night with the town's smitten gallants only to expire suddenly with the notes of the last quadrille. The spooked residents of Harrodsburg guard a grave you can see to this day. Readers then visit the world-famous Bell Witch of Robinson County, Tennessee. Jeffrey also makes his first trip to old New Orleans to reveal a revenant in residence on Royal Street before continuing his ghostly progress across Dixie. This new edition returns Jeffrey Introduces 13 More Southern Ghosts to its original format in jacketed cloth full of original, black-and-white illustrations in a handsome keepsake edition perfect for gift-giving and for families, folklorists of all ages, and libraries.

Biografía del autor:

Kathryn Tucker Windham (1918-2011) was a newspaper reporter, storyteller, photographer, and the author of 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey and 13 Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey.

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• Verlag: The University of Alabama Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0817318739
• ISBN 13: 9780817318734
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136