Ghosts and Haunts from the Appalachian Foothills: Stories and Legends

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.

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.

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!!!!!!!!!!

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!

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.

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