In late May, a Pennsylvania high school hums with the rumor that a Satanic cult plans on killing the first four couples through the door on prom night.
A horror writer in the Catskills is overcome with ...
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 ...
Fire-cat masks, earth mother icons, henna tattoos, ankhs, and water altars these objects may sound like the inventory in an ancient druid's sanctuary. But they are part of the sacred reliquary created ...
Few states can boast the multitude of cultures that created Florida. Native American, African American, Afro-Caribbean, White, and Hispanic traditions all brought their styles of storytelling to fashion ...
From backwaters as dark as a cypress swamp to nooks as mysterious as a musty college library, southerners have conjured spirits and told ghost stories.
Shadows and Cypress: Southern Ghost Stories is a Dixie ...
In this memoir, a child's recollections of her family and warm home life are lovingly preserved in a front-porch ambience. Windham, who frequently participates in oral storytelling sessions around the ...
Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence
Best Research in the General History of Recorded Sound (2000)
The invention of the cylinder phonograph at the end of the nineteenth century ...
Bordered by the Blue Ridge and the Allegheny Mountains, the Shenandoah Valley forms a natural corridor to the western parts of Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Early American settlers followed ...
Discovering the art of Eddie Lee Kendrick was, as Ruth Kaplan recalls, “like walking into another world.”
In 1977, Kaplan, an administrator at an elementary school in Little Rock, Arkansas, walked ...
The saddle has become an American icon. Wranglers rely on saddles every day, but discerning outsiders favor them for image enhancement and self-expression. Thus, saddles turn up in paintings, films, even ...