Shadows and Cypress

by Brown, Alan

• ISBN13: 9781578062713
• ISBN10: 1578062713
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

Conjures more than a dozen spooky stories from each Dixie state--Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, & Virginia.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction	xv
Alabama
The Music Critic	3	(2)
The Boyington Oak	5	(1)
The Ghost in Webb Hall	5	(1)
Ghost Child	6	(1)
The Head of the School	7	(1)
Leehaven	8	(1)
Haunted Homestead	9	(1)
The Vandergrath House	10	(1)
Ginseng Angel	11	(1)
The Ghostly Noise	12	(1)
The Ghostly Voice	13	(1)
Miss Farris's Ghost	14	(1)
The Ghost in the Library	15	(1)
The Haunted Shack	16	(1)
The Beavers' House	17	(2)
Bill Sketoe	19	(2)
Arkansas
Yellow Eyes	21	(1)
Death Omens	22	(1)
Ghost Lights	22	(1)
The Negro Soldier (WPA)	23	(1)
Night Visitor (WPA)	24	(1)
Ghostly Playmate (WPA)	24	(1)
Zeb's Ghost (WPA)	25	(1)
The Angry Spirit (WPA)	25	(1)
Spectral Escort (WPA)	26	(1)
The Cattle Rustlers and the Lady (WPA)	26	(1)
Ghostly Church Service (WPA)	27	(1)
Hungry Ghosts (WPA)	27	(1)
The Dancing Spirits (WPA)	28	(1)
The Newton Place (WPA)	28	(1)
Buck's Visitation (WPA)	29	(1)
The Haunted Bed (WPA)	30	(1)
Skeleton Hollow (WPA)	31	(2)
Florida
The Fisherman's Ghost	33	(1)
The Glowing Eyes	34	(1)
Old Joe	35	(1)
The Haunted Condo	36	(1)
The Haunted Dorm	36	(1)
Ghost Story	36	(1)
The House on Otter Creek	37	(1)
Grandma's House	38	(1)
The Rocking Chair	39	(1)
Lady in the Recliner	39	(1)
The Will-o'-the-Wisp (WPA)	40	(1)
Kunjered Nigger (WPA)	40	(1)
Bottled Magic (WPA)	41	(1)
Georgia
The Haunted Fraternity House	42	(1)
Ghost Horse (WPA)	42	(1)
Ghost Dog (WPA)	43	(1)
The Man in the Field (WPA)	43	(1)
Julianna's Spirit (WPA)	44	(1)
The Good-Time Gal (WPA)	45	(1)
The Ghostly Banjo Player (WPA)	46	(1)
The Ghost in the Well (WPA)	47	(2)
The Spectral Cow (WPA)	49	(1)
The Beckoning Spirit (WPA)	49	(1)
The Rejected Lover (WPA)	50	(1)
Let de Whiskey Alone (WPA)	51	(1)
Haunted Orphanage (WPA)	52	(1)
The Weaver Woman's Return (WPA)	53	(1)
Road Ghosts (WPA)	54	(1)
Kentucky
The Witch's Curse	55	(1)
Headless Husband	56	(1)
The Ghost of Van Meter	56	(1)
Parked Lovers' Story	57	(1)
Liver for Supper	58	(1)
The Ghost of Iroquois Park	59	(1)
The Ghost of potter Hall	59	(1)
The Unseen Feeling	60	(1)
Dog Ghost	61	(1)
The Haunted Rock	61	(1)
The Face on the Window	62	(1)
Butcher-Knife Jane	62	(1)
The Screaming Woman	63	(1)
The Legend of Doc Wright	63	(1)
The Light on the Road	64	(1)
The Peddler's Ghost	65	(1)
The Thing on the Road	65	(1)
The Visitor in the Kitchen	66	(2)
Louisiana
T-Frere	68	(1)
The Ruga-Rue	69	(1)
The Fifolet	70	(1)
The Spectral Card Game	70	(1)
Ghost in the Black Robe	71	(1)
Ghostly Footsteps	72	(1)
Screams in the Woods	73	(1)
The Lalaurie House	73	(1)
The Octoroon Girl	74	(1)
The Beauregard-Keyes House	75	(1)
The Sultan's House	75	(1)
St. Louis Cathedral	76	(1)
The Glowing Tombstone	76	(1)
Graveyard Dare (WPA)	77	(1)
Mississippi
Stuckey Bridge	78	(1)
Missouri Larkin	79	(1)
Ghost Possum	79	(1)
The Critter on the Church	80	(1)
The White Wolf	81	(1)
The Haunted Nursing Home	81	(1)
The Old Shelton House	82	(1)
Phantom Hitchhiker	83	(1)
Midnight Visitor	84	(1)
Old Mossback	84	(1)
The Golden Arm	85	(1)
The Grand Opera House	86	(1)
The Headless Haint	87	(1)
The Haunted Apartment	88	(1)
The Ghosts of Merrehope	89	(4)
The Ghost of City Hall	93	(1)
The F. W. Williams House	94	(1)
North Carolina
Uncle Isum's Treasure	95	(2)
Helen Mountain	97	(1)
Chanteloupe	97	(1)
The Brown Mountain Lights	98	(1)
The Paul Green Theater	98	(1)
The Devil's Tramping Ground	99	(1)
The Devil's Chains (WPA)	99	(1)
The Ghost from the Revolution (WPA)	100	(1)
Ghost of Black Beard (WPA)	100	(2)
A True Ghost Story (WPA)	102	(1)
The Headless Horse (WPA)	103	(1)
A Haunted House (WPA)	103	(1)
The Lady of the Rose Garden (WPA)	104	(1)
The Legend of the Spinning Wheel (WPA)	104	(1)
Hospital Ghosts (WPA)	105	(1)
South Carolina
The Gray Man	106	(1)
The Phantom Coachman	106	(1)
The Vanishing Hitchhiker	107	(1)
Land's End	108	(1)
Ad's Plat-Eye (WPA)	108	(2)
The Sulphur Ring (WPA)	110	(1)
Hants and Ghosts (WPA)	110	(1)
The Haunting at Hull Street (WPA)	111	(1)
Where Are You Going? (WPA)	111	(1)
Tokened (WPA)	112	(1)
A Tormented Man (WPA)	112	(1)
The Lady of the River (WPA)	113	(1)
The Tall Ghost (WPA)	114	(1)
Spectral Hammering (WPA)	114	(1)
Will-o'-the-wisp (WPA)	115	(1)
Aunt Martha's Hant (WPA)	115	(2)
Tennessee
The Orpheum Theater	117	(1)
The Ghost of Walker's Valley	117	(1)
Ghostly Cries	118	(1)
The Hermit of Lumber Ridge	119	(1)
The White Dove	120	(1)
The Haunted Cave	121	(1)
The Bell Witch	121	(1)
The Mysterious Church House (WPA)	122	(1)
The Ghost of Coal Creek (WPA)	122	(1)
The Headless Horror (WPA)	123	(1)
The Bird-Man (WPA)	124	(1)
The Haunted Cave (WPA)	125	(1)
The Woman in Black (WPA)	125	(1)
The Ghost of Mollie Woodruff	126	(1)
A Ghost in the House	127	(1)
The Houston House (WPA)	127	(2)
Texas
Aunt Neale and the Ghost	129	(2)
Sarah Jane Lane	131	(1)
The Abandoned Cemetery	132	(1)
Spirit Warnings (WPA)	132	(1)
The Ghost of Gregorio Hernandez (WPA)	133	(1)
The House with a Secret (WPA)	134	(1)
The Dead Woman's Return (WPA)	135	(1)
The Harold House (WPA)	136	(1)
The Haunted Hunter (WPA)	137	(1)
The Ball of Fire (WPA)	137	(2)
Halloween Madness (WPA)	139	(1)
Fisherman's Surprise (WPA)	139	(1)
The House of Gregorio Hernandez (WPA)	140	(1)
The Groaning Cemetery (WPA)	140	(1)
The Woman at the Fence (WPA)	141	(2)
Virginia
A Rude Awakening	143	(1)
Walking Ghost	143	(1)
A Night in a Haunted House (WPA)	144	(1)
The Headless Man on Birchfield Road (WPA)	145	(1)
The Ghost That Scratches in the Ashes (WPA)	146	(1)
Light Around the Corner (WPA)	147	(1)
The Haunted Spinning Wheel (WPA)	147	(2)
Quilt-Pulling Ghost (WPA)	149	(1)
A True Story of a Haunted House (WPA)	150	(1)
The Haunted Rifle (WPA)	151	(1)
The Headless Teamster (WPA)	152	(1)
The Haunted Maple (WPA)	152	(1)
The Ghost of Dug Hill (WPA)	153	(1)
Haunt Tale (WPA)	154	(1)
Knocking Spirit (WPA)	154	(3)
Notes	157	(26)
Selected Bibliography	183	(12)
Index	195