Ghosts and Goosebumps: Ghost Stories, Tall Tales, and Superstitions

Ghosts and Goosebumps is a rich collection of folktales and superstitions that capture the oral traditions of central and southeastern Alabama. In its pages one can glimpse the long-lost horse-and-buggy times, when people sat up all night with the dead and dying, hoed and handpicked cotton, drew water from wells, and met the devil rather regularly.

The book is divided into three parts—tales, superstitions, and slave narratives. The spirits of treasure-keepers, poltergeists, murderers and the...