Ghosts and Haunts from the Appalachian Foothills: Stories and Legends

by Marcia Wright Bonner, Linda J. Crider, James V. Burchill, et al.

Book Overview

This collection of spooky, authentic legends of Appalachian ghosts was gathered from those who have lived in the foothills for generations. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558532536
• ISBN13: 9781558532533
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 3 years and up
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher

Customer Reviews

Instant favorite

Just like my title says; an instant favorite. I love these old stories and the way they are written. I just bought their second book, The Cold Cold Hand and I can’t wait to read it too.

Among the best in the 'genre'

Reading regional "ghost story" compilations is one way to learn light history about a place or area. The stories provide quick hits of popular folklore, geography, and even anthropology, while also providing the added benefit of a chill from a good tale. I try to pick up books like this wherever I go. This one is among the best. It's not written in the first person by a kooky self-styled medium or something like that; it's simply a collection of some real spine-tinglers from one of the best regions for such a thing in America. Well-written, with a balance of short and long, unbelieveable and compelling, old and new, and serial stories and stand-alones. A good bet for anyone interested in folklore and/or life in the Appalachians.

Wish there was MORE!

This has to be ( other then the cold,cold hand ) the BEST book in my collection! I cant highly recomend it enough! Get it trust me YOU wont be able to put it down you will be HOOKED!!!!!!!!!!

so scary I couldn't sleep

This is a wonderful, sometimes eerie, and sometimes downright scary collection of stories. Told in a way that reflects the oral tradition...I bought this book on a recent trip to the mountains and it became a perfect fireside companion for cold, dark mountain nights. It kept me awake the first night because I didn't want to put it down, and the second night because I ended on a particularly scary one!

These chilling campfire ghost stories made a wonderful read

Marcia Wright Bonner, James V. Burchill, Peggy Kendrick, and Linda J. Crider have contributed to a book that is enough to keep you up at night, not out of shock like modern horror writers, but in an old fashioned "ghost story told around a campfire" kind of way. There is just enough there to send a pleasant chill up your spine at the appropriate moments. I loved every story, and I highly recommend this book to anyone.

Traditional ghosts tales for a spine shivering good read.

A collection of traditional tall tales of ghostly subjects that will leave you wondering whether fact or fiction is being spun into your head and a shiver down your spine. It's impossible to tell where fact ends and fiction begins, but I do know for a fact that the writers did research in person...after dark... in deserted churchs and graveyards! This book, written by a collection of native (and transplanted) people to the Appalachian area of North Georgia, is already in its second printing