{"product_id":"shadows-and-cypress-alan-brown-9781578062713","title":"Shadows and Cypress: Southern Ghost Stories","description":"From backwaters as dark as a cypress swamp to nooks as mysterious as a musty college library, southerners have conjured spirits and told ghost stories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eShadows and Cypress: Southern Ghost Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is a Dixie s饌nce that summons ghost tales from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Collecting more than a dozen stories from each state, this book channels the South's entire panorama of creepy locales into one volume. The limestone caves of Kentucky, the swamps of Louisiana and Florida, the pine hills and hollows of Appalachia, and the plains of Texas--these are perfect haunts for a host of narratives about visitors from the spirit world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The many cultures that converged in the American South enriched the region's ghost stories. \u003ci\u003eShadows and Cypress\u003c\/i\u003e taps African American, French, Hispanic, and Scotch-Irish storytelling traditions to capture the distinctive signatures that each has left on ghostlore. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Throughout the region, the southern ghost story is hardly a curio from the crypt. It is still alive and well. Folklorist Alan Brown draws stories from crannies as contemporary as the college dormitory or cars parked on a lover's lane. To give the reader the unique experience of hearing a classic ghost story told, Brown presents these tales exactly as they were recorded in his field research or as archived in the trove of the WPA oral collections. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A wide variety of specters found only in this region arise in \u003ci\u003eShadows and Cypress\u003c\/i\u003e. The \"fillet\" and \"loogaroo\" from Louisiana, \"plat-eye\" from South Carolina, and \"haints\" from across Dixie are among the creatures bumping in the night. Beginning with the Revolutionary War and continuing to the present day, this generous gathering of tales will chill and delight readers and long haunt shelves as a comprehensive sourcebook of the region's supernatural allure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1578062713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781578062713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 5.87w x 0.70d","brand":"Alan Brown","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980123046143,"sku":"9781578062713","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_81028bed-dda1-4164-8b25-d07b93017d7a.jpg?v=1683248529","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shadows-and-cypress-alan-brown-9781578062713","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}