Haunted Places in the American South by Alan Brown

Haunted Places in the American South by Alan Brown

Before Alan Brown wrote Haunted Places in the American South, only the locals knew what was lurking in these locations. Slamming doors, eerie lights, and Confederate soldiers' ghosts kept some folks too scared to talk with outsiders. Above Peavey Melody Music in Meridian, Mississippi, children may be heard giggling and running down an abandoned hallway that turns icy cold. At the Jameson Inn in Crestview, Florida, an apparition appears on surveillance tapes after filling the lobby with sweet-smelling cigar smoke. Seldom told and rarely--if ever--printed stories such as these join tales from haunted inns, mansions, forests, ravines, and prisons to create Haunted Places in the American South. The book collects ghost stories from fifty-five historically haunted sites in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Alan Brown gathered these stories from newspapers, magazines, museum directors, archaeologists, hotel managers, and many others who shared their disturbing experiences. Most of these stories have never appeared in book form, and some, such as the haunting of Peavey Melody Music, have never been published at all. Haunted Places in the American South differs from most other collections of southern ghost stories, for the featured sites include more than just haunted houses. Bridges, forts, governors' mansions, prisons, hotels, woods, theaters, cemeteries, and even a large rock are included as focal points for these tales. The book provides directions to the sites, notes, and a bibliography that will be useful to folklore scholars and to travelers seeking that cold and creepy brush with the supernatural. Alan Brown is a professor of English at the University of West Alabama. His books include Literary Levees of New Orleans, The Face in the Window and Other Alabama Ghostlore, and Shadows and Cypress: Southern Ghost Stories (University Press of Mississippi).

Alan S. Brown is Professor of Psychiatry and Epidemiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health. He is also director of the Unit in Birth Cohort Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. His honors include the A.E. Bennett Research Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry, the Bingham Award for Scholarship in Schizophrenia, awards from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, and several distinguished lectureships.

Paul H. Patterson is the Anne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. Prior to arriving at Caltech, he served on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School for ten years. His honors include the Ulf von Euler Lectureship at the Karolinska Institutet, a Distinguished Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, a Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council, the W. Alden Spencer Award from the Center for Neuroscience, Columbia University, and a visiting professorship at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London.

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ISBN 13	9781578064779
ISBN 10	1578064775
Title	Haunted Places in the American South
Author	Alan Brown
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University Press of Mississippi
Year published	2002-10-30
Number of pages	277
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.