Description:From its mist-shrouded bayous and abandoned plantation houses to its battlefields sown with the souls of the Civil War dead, the American South is a colorful landscape laden with potential for horror. Haunted Dixie is an essential collection of spooky stories in which ghosts and apparitions express this supernatural spirit of the southern states. Its fourteen selections abound with haunts and specters that capture the history, traditions, lore, and local color that set the South apart from any other region of America. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />Each state is represented by a tale of terror steeped in the eerie atmosphere of the southern Gothic:
A curse from the deathless past imperils a living Louisiana belle in Talmage Powell’s “The Jabberwock Valentine.”
A haunted house in North Carolina gives up its buried secrets in Orson Scott Card’s “Lost Boys.”
A Civil War soldier from Tennessee fights a final battle from beyond the grave in Ambrose Bierce’s “Two Military Executions.”
The romance of New Orleans’ historic Storeyville district manifests as a spectral femme fatale in Robert Bloch’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
So brace yourself for a stiff dose of southern discomfort. A confederacy of fears awaits you in these pages.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Haunted Dixie: Great Ghost Stories from the American South. To get started finding Haunted Dixie: Great Ghost Stories from the American South, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
211
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Fall River Press
Release
2008
ISBN
1435104579
Haunted Dixie: Great Ghost Stories from the American South
Description: From its mist-shrouded bayous and abandoned plantation houses to its battlefields sown with the souls of the Civil War dead, the American South is a colorful landscape laden with potential for horror. Haunted Dixie is an essential collection of spooky stories in which ghosts and apparitions express this supernatural spirit of the southern states. Its fourteen selections abound with haunts and specters that capture the history, traditions, lore, and local color that set the South apart from any other region of America. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />Each state is represented by a tale of terror steeped in the eerie atmosphere of the southern Gothic:
A curse from the deathless past imperils a living Louisiana belle in Talmage Powell’s “The Jabberwock Valentine.”
A haunted house in North Carolina gives up its buried secrets in Orson Scott Card’s “Lost Boys.”
A Civil War soldier from Tennessee fights a final battle from beyond the grave in Ambrose Bierce’s “Two Military Executions.”
The romance of New Orleans’ historic Storeyville district manifests as a spectral femme fatale in Robert Bloch’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
So brace yourself for a stiff dose of southern discomfort. A confederacy of fears awaits you in these pages.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Haunted Dixie: Great Ghost Stories from the American South. To get started finding Haunted Dixie: Great Ghost Stories from the American South, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.