A collection of “100 tales of horror - and ghostly humor” gathered by historian W. K. McNeil, a scholar of Appalachian and Ozark culture, this slimmish paperback book packs a lot into only 208 pages. It covers haunted places, ghostly folk of all terrifying types from revenants to the headless, supernatural phenomena and creatures, and graveyard humor. Author McNeil’s notes on the compiling of this spine-tingling treasure takes up the last section, and is a fascinating read in its own right. William Kinneth McNeil was born in 1940 in Canton, North Carolina. At age forty he graduated from Indiana University, Bloomington, with a Ph.D. in folklore, and spent the remainder of his too-short 64 years in the service of his love for Southern Mountain folk culture. This and other publications are written testaments that a better curator of its spooky lore could not have been found. [Condition: Used Acceptable. Torn and bent cover, some top pages clipped, missing front flyleaf page + some age-coloring of interior pages.]
Condition: Used Acceptable. Ghosts. W. K. McNeil (ed.). Dell Publishing, 1985. Paperback, 212 pgs, 4 x 6.75" / 4 oz
