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Classic American Ghost Stories

By: August House

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Historical Novels (August House)


Product Info

Title
Classic American Ghost Stories
Publisher
Category
Author
Deborah Downer
Publish Year
2005
Pages
216
Dimensions
5.25x8.25x.5"
NKG Part #
2148107220
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

Young or old, playful or terrifying, clad in the brocades of the 16th century or the jeans of today, the phantoms of these tales vary as much as the places they haunt. Some are ghosts in the strictest sense, troubled over deeds left undone or unavenged at the time of their deaths; others, like the Georgia Werewolf and the wold-girl of west Texas, are more unusual.

They may be as passionate as Vivia – who disguised herself as a man to follow her lover to Oklahoma and killed him when she witnessed his infidelity – or as genteel as the Lady in White, who showed up at a Delaware farmhouse during a blizzard and did nothing more violent than croon the baby to sleep. Whatever their demeanor, wherever they are, however their actions are explained or dismissed, these ghosts have a common power: anyone reading this anthology will see that they still haunt us today.