Author: Randy Russell
Publisher: John F. Blair, Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Award-winning husband-and-wife folklorists Randy Russell and Janet Barnett have gone to the dogs. Digging deeply through the rich field of Southern folklore, the authors have discovered that a dog's devotion to its human does not always end at the grave. Dogs can be as peculiar as people. Their relationship with humans is complex. In story after story from Southern homes, there is strong evidence that this relationship can extend beyond death. Do dogs return from the other side to comfort and aid their human companions? You bet your buried bones they do.
Author: Randy Russell
Publisher: John F Blair Pub
ISBN: 9780895872883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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Twenty haunting hound tales illustrated with reprints of nostalgic Victorian photographs
Author: Randy Russell
Publisher: Blair
ISBN: 9780895875570
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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Good ghost kitties, bad ghost kitties, ghost kitties in many manifestations and moods: 22 stories that the cats dragged in.
Author: Mary Beth Crain
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461746132
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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Since ancient times, stories have abounded concerning the existence of ghost animals. From the Native American animal spirits, to the menacing demon dogs of medieval England, to present day encounters with animal apparitions, there can be little doubt that animals, like people, live after death and pass back and forth between this world and the next. In the realm of the paranormal, experiences concerning deceased pets who revisit the living are common events. Like the ghosts of humans, pet ghosts return for various reasons. Sometimes they appear to say goodbye. Sometimes they want to reassure their grieving owners that they are all right, and that their spirits are always with them. And sometimes, as they often did in life, they are guarding their beloved humans, delivering a message or a warning. "Haunted Pets" covers a wide range of encounters with animal ghosts. Some of these encounters are comforting; others are terrifying. In general, when pets return in ghostly form, they provide comfort and protection to the living. But there are other less benign phantom creatures who have been known to haunt places of violence, or exact revenge upon humans for evil deeds which, while long past, have somehow evaded justice.
Author: Shannon Ravenel
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 9781565124325
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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The 19th installment of this annual showcase of Southern short fiction presents a mix of lesser- and better-known authors.
Author: Sherry Austin
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
ISBN: 9781570722318
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Takes readers on a journey into the brooding, soulful American South where kudzu-covered hills hide dark family secrets, where souls rest uneasily under the soil of mountainside graveyards, old plantations are still haunted by a lost cause, and a phantom hitchhiker still walks on a moonlit coastal back road.
Author: Peg Kehret
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110156461X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125
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Each day, Rusty feeds a dog that's left chained in the frigid weather with no shelter and no food or water. When he realizes that the dog's been injured, Rusty and his friend Andrew unchain the dog and take it. Are they stealing, or are they rescuing a dog in need? With the dog living in their secret hideout, the boys face multiple challenges, including a mysterious ghost dog that tries to lead them to a startling secret, Andrew's snoopy sister, and the escalating threats of the dog's abusive owner. The fast-paced suspense builds to a surprising conclusion, which will leave young readers cheering for Rusty's compassion and determination.
Author: Andre Dubus III
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324000457
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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From the literary master and best-selling author of Townie, reflections on a life of challenges, contradictions, and fulfillments. During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III’s grandfather taught him that men’s work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege while living with a rich girlfriend in New York City, Dubus worked—at being a better worker and a better human being. In Ghost Dogs, Dubus’s nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a violent youth and of settled domesticity and fatherhood, about the omnipresent expectations and contradictions of masculinity, about the things writers remember and those they forget. Drawing upon kindred literary spirits from Rilke to Rumi to Tim O’Brien, Ghost Dogs renders moments of personal revelation with emotional generosity and stylistic grace, ultimately standing as essential witness and testimony to the art of the essay.
Author: Alan Brown
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811740773
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Phantoms from Indian conflicts, American Revolution, and the Civil War still wander South Carolina.
Author: Jeffrey Salane
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338105515
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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A perfectly spooky read for middle-grade dog lovers. Sometimes man's best friend is loyal for life... and beyond!Lucas Trainer has just moved to the middle of nowhere -- a town called Hounds Hollow, where ghostly dogs prowl at night. At first, he's terrified by the nightly apparitions. But as he slowly uncovers the mystery behind the town, he learns that a ghost dog's bark is worse than its bite... and in fact the dogs are protecting the town from an even more terrifying threat.Spooky, fun, and mysterious, this is author Jeffrey Salane's stand-alone follow-up to the Lawless series, and is perfect for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children... and dog lovers of all stripes.
