Texas Ghost Stories: Fifty Favorites for the Telling - Softcover

Tim Tingle; Doc Moore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 089672526X ISBN 13: 9780896725263

Publisher: Texas Tech University Press, 2004

Synopsis

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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Texas Ghost Stories 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.With two appendixes addressing selection, learning, and telling of stories as well as sources and scholarship, "Texas Ghost Stories" Full description

Review:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 089672526X
• ISBN 13: 9780896725263
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320