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Kathryn Tucker Windham

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI

One of the best-known and widely shared books about the South, Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey has haunted the imaginations of generations of delighted young readers since it was first published in 1969. Written by nationally acclaimed folklorists Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh, the book recounts Alabama’s thirteen most ghoulish and eerie ghost legends.   Curated with loving expertise, these thirteen tales showcase both Windham and Figh’s masterful selection of stories and their artful and suspenseful writing style. In crafting stories treasured by children and adults alike, the authors tell much more than ghost tales. Embedded in each is a wealth of fact and folklore about Alabama history and the old South. “I don’t care whether you believe in ghosts,” Windham was fond of saying. “The good ghost stories do not require that you believe in ghosts.”   Millions of readers cherish memories of being chilled as teachers and parents read them unforgettable stories like “The Unquiet Ghost at Gaineswood,” about the ghost of Evelyn Carter, who fills this Demopolis antebellum mansion with midnight musical lamentations because her body wasn’t returned to her native Virginia, and “The Phantom Steamboat of the Tombigbee,” about the wreck of the steamboat Eliza Battle, which caught fire on the way to Mobile and sank one February night in 1858. People who live along the river say the flaming steamboat wreck still rises on cold nights, its cotton cargo blazing across the waves while its terrified survivors cry for help from the icy water.   The title’s “Jeffrey” refers to a friendly ghost who resides in the Windham home and who served as Windham’s unofficial collaborator in this work and the subsequent books in this popular series, all of which are now available in high-quality reproductions of their spooky originals.

13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey (Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey)

Religion & Spirituality

Margaret Gillis Figh

Occult & Paranormal

Strode Pub

Southern Cooking to Remember

<p>Favorite recipes are gathered from extensive travelling throughout the South and arranged in sections beginning with short introductions portraying southern life</p>

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Regional & International

The Strode Publishers, Inc.

Count Those Buzzards! Stamp Those Grey Mules!

Children's Books

Kathryn Windham Tuckr

Kathryn Tucker Windham's colorful tale of a Birmingham ironworker.

Ghost in the Sloss Furnaces

Birmingham Historical Society

"My mother's gift of beauty to the family, year after year, was a bowl of paper-white narcissi that she magically coaxed into full bloom every Christmas day." And thereby hangs a tale of Christmas long ago, when the simple gifts were the best gifts, and of Christmas today, when all an eighty-year-old woman wants is a small treasure her mother used to give away free.

It's Christmas!

Literature & Fiction

River City Publishing

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Books by Kathryn Tucker Windham