13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey

13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey
Author: Kathryn Tucker Windham
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1969
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

The first of six Jeffrey ghost story books centers on Jeffrey's favorite 13 ghostly tales set in Alabama.

Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey

Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey
Author: Kathryn Tucker Windham
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2015-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 081731881X

Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey is a deluxe, commemorative edition of famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham's introduction to Georgia's thirteen most famous haunted houses and ghostly visitations.

Jeffrey's Favorite 13 Ghost Stories

Jeffrey's Favorite 13 Ghost Stories
Author: Kathryn Tucker Windham
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2004-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1603061118

This is the first anthology of the author’s own favorite ghost stories from the highly successful Jeffrey series of books that began in 1969 with “13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey.” Hundreds of thousands of these books have been sold. The present volume includes 13 of the best of Mrs. Windham’s stories, representing mysterious and supernatural doings from Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Most of the stories are related to historical places and sometimes to historical people.

A Serigamy of Stories

A Serigamy of Stories
Author: Kathryn Tucker Windham
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2014-06-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781578062560

Appealing reminiscences of small-town life by one of the South's most enchanting oral storytellers

Alabama, One Big Front Porch

Alabama, One Big Front Porch
Author: Kathryn Tucker Windham
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1588382192

"Many of Alabama's finest stories used to begin with a reference to 'the night the stars fell,' and even now there is an inclination among some residents to divide local history into two segments: before the stars fell and after the stars fell. That would make November 13, 1833, the dividing line. "Thousands of Alabamians, thinking the end of the world was at hand when they saw the heavenly spectacle, fell to their knees to plead for mercy and forgiveness. Others promised eternal renunciation of sin (card playing, dancing, whiskey drinking, cursing, and associated vices) if they were spared whatever catastrophes were in the offing. Still others jumped upon horses and tried to outrace the fearful menace they believed was pursuing them.

Jeffrey's Latest 13

Jeffrey's Latest 13
Author: Kathryn Tucker Windham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1987-08
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780817303808

Accounts ghostly and spiritual happenings that are part of Alabama's history.

Haunting Experiences

Haunting Experiences
Author: Diane Goldstein
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2007-09-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0874216818

Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.