Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.
Sto caricando le informazioni... 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffreydi Kathryn Tucker Windham, Margaret Gillis Figh (Autore)
Nessuno Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The book is intended for children so you won’t find these stories to be even remotely scary…but rather true tales of haunted places in Alabama. The "Jeffrey" part refers to the friendly little ghost named Jeffrey, who appeared in the Windham house in Selma, Alabama years ago. I don’t know when I have read stories of this type told so beautifully. These are indeed “Southern treasures”. ( ) I remember my teacher reading this book to us in elementary school. Or maybe I read it myself. In any case, these are the classic ghost stories that I have recalled all my life. I don't there's any better book of ghost stories than this one. The face in the window and the hole that won't stay filled are the ones that have never left me. But as I was reading, I remembered many of the others as well. The phantom riverboat is also a classic. Windham went on to write a sequel and similar books about the ghosts of other Southern states. My library has them as ebooks, so I plan to read them all. This collection of the ghost stories culled from many story-telling sessions around the State of Alabama by the wonderful [author:Kathryn Tucker Windham|76363] can easily be read in a single setting, but why hurry? It's a delightful collection of ghost stories in the classic folkloric tradition; tales passed down from person to person over the generations until multiple versions exist. Are they true? Maybe, maybe not, but is that really the important thing. I think it gives us insights, if not into the lives out ancestors lived, at least into the live we wished they lived. Was Henry Wells killed by lightning as some people tell, or was he a victim of Judge Lynch as others believe? Was every gallant young Confederate's death in battle a seed that grew into a tragic haunting? Probably not but it sure makes thinking about it interesting. The only thing that would make these stories more entertaining is if we could hear them told by Ms. Windham herself, perhaps while sitting around a fire on a dark and stormy night. Sadly she has passed on so that it a pleasure I will never experience. Well, that's not entirely true. Thanks to YouTube, many of these stories can be listened to by the author herself. Of course, you'll have to arrange the fireplace yourself. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle Serie
One of the best-known and widely shared books about the South, Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey has haunted the imaginations of generations of delighted young readers since it was first published in 1969. Written by nationally acclaimed folklorists Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh, the book recounts Alabama's thirteen most ghoulish and eerie ghost legends. Curated with loving expertise, these thirteen tales showcase both Windham and Figh's masterful selection of stories and their artful and suspenseful writing style. In crafting stories treasured by children and adults alike, the authors tell much more than ghost tales. Embedded in each is a wealth of fact and folklore about Alabama history and the old South. "I don't care whether you believe in ghosts," Windham was fond of saying. "The good ghost stories do not require that you believe in ghosts." Millions of readers cherish memories of being chilled as teachers and parents read them unforgettable stories like "The Unquiet Ghost at Gaineswood," about the ghost of Evelyn Carter, who fills this Demopolis antebellum mansion with midnight musical lamentations because her body wasn't returned to her native Virginia, and "The Phantom Steamboat of the Tombigbee," about the wreck of the steamboat Eliza Battle, which caught fire on the way to Mobile and sank one February night in 1858. People who live along the river say the flaming steamboat wreck still rises on cold nights, its cotton cargo blazing across the waves while its terrified survivors cry for help from the icy water. The title's "Jeffrey" refers to a friendly ghost who resides in the Windham home and who served as Windham's unofficial collaborator in this work and the subsequent books in this popular series, all of which are now available in high-quality reproductions of their spooky originals. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
Discussioni correntiNessunoCopertine popolari
Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriNessun genere Sistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)133Philosophy and Psychology Parapsychology And Occultism Specific TopicsClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |