Overview

This title is 'Storytelling World/Storytelling Magazine' Award Winner. 'I love a book that gives me what it promises, and this one does: fifty real ghost stories, drawn from a variety of sources and told in as many voices, written so as to simulate the language and delivery of a face-to-face performance, and artfully, delightfully done' - """"Review of Texas Books"""". 'Scarcely a page will you turn in this collection of ghost stories in Texas without encountering a disembodied hand or a fang babycreatures guaranteed to shock the shell of an armadillo...Whether you read the tales out loud or spin them around a campfire, youand your audiencewill be spooked. And you'll never again saunter along a dark, deserted riverbank late at night' - Patti Ross, """"San Antonio Express-News"""". Some humorous, some haunting, and some just late-night terrifying, these stories, gathered by two favorite Texas tellers, span a rich cultural heritage from the earliest Spanish explorers to the present, from """"La Llorona (the Weeping Woman)"""" to the """"Vanishing Hitchhiker"""" . Introduced by John O. West and John L. Davis, two of Texas most respected folklorists, the stories include tales adapted by European settlers to their new southwestern settings, more historically rooted legends about such early pioneers as Britt Bailey of the Gulf Coast prairie and Josiah Wilbarger of Austin, and those notorious contemporary cautionary tales known as urban legends. With two appendixes addressing selection, learning, and telling of stories as well as sources and scholarship, """"Texas Ghost Stories"""" is a full-service compendium for tellers, teachers, readers, and collectors. Celebrating both the blending and the diversity of Texan cultures through the timeless stories we love to be scared by, it is a treasury for all Texans and for those who really want to know us.

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Author:   Tim Tingle ,  Doc Moore
Publisher:   Texas Tech Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Texas Tech Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.443kg
ISBN:  

9780896725263

ISBN 10:   089672526
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   30 May 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Macario La Llorona Tailybone The Hairy Man Mary Culhaine Death Makes a Call Fiddling on Devil's Backbone Boo Hag Clickety-Clack Bones The Insolent Owl Dancing with the Devil Don't Fall in My Chili Little Eight John The Bell Witch Low River Bruja Knock! Knock! Mister Fox Josiah Wilbarger Rattlesnake Gold The Doctor's Eerie House Call East Texas Ghost Dog Guardians of the Alamo Stampede Mesa Dolores El Lloron Jim Bowie's Ghost Dry Frio Alamo Spirit Pecan The Knapsack The Ghost of San Luis Pass Brit Bailey Lafitte's Treasure Fiddle Music on the San Bernard Ross and Anna Chipita Rodriquez Ben and Burl La Lechuza The Lady of White Rock Lake La Llorona at Mission Concepcion The Lady in Black Prom Queen Room 636 at the Gunter Midget Mansion The Lady in the Red Dress Empanada Man The Crying Children of Carrollton Fang Baby of Old Pearsal Road The Lady with the Hook Skinwalker Children of the Tracks Donkey Lady

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Ghost stories are an integral part of every human culture. . . .They serve the interests of cultural education (how to get through life relatively safely and successfully), enjoyment (a human necessity like air), and curiosity (without an interest in the wonder-full, we're not people).

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