The Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston

"You ask for a story. I will tell you one, fact for fact and true for true." So begins "Crook-Neck Dick," one of twenty-three stories in this beguiling collection of Charleston lore. John Bennett's interpretations of the legends shared with him by African-descended Charlestonians have entertained generations. Among them are tales of ghosts, conjuring, superhuman feats, and supernatural powers. Accounts of ingenuity, humor, terror, mystery, and solidarity will enchant folklorists, students o...