Coastal Ghosts: Haunted Places from Wilmington North Carolina to Savannah Georgia [Paperback]

Nancy Rhyne (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0878440496 | ISBN-13: 978-0878440498 | Publication Date: April 1, 1989

A guide to the sites of ghostly appearances and mysterious happenings along the coast from Wilmington, North Carolina, through South Carolina s fabled Low-country, to Savannah, Georgia. The twenty-five tales are arranged geographically.
Author Nancy Rhyne, an experienced tour guide and acclaimed storyteller, takes you on a ghostly tour through a part of the United States that she believes is richer in folklore and tales of strange happenings than any other.
The folklore of this region is heavily influenced by both the lavish lifestyle of the wealthy colonial rice plantation owners and the superstitions and customs brought from Africa by the slaves who cultivated the land.

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About the Author

Nancy Rhyne is one of the South's well known storytellers and an award-winning author with a special interest in preserving the history and folklore of the South Carolina Low Country and a deep appreciation for the varying cultures of the region. She is the recipient of the Press Women of South Carolina Annual Awards.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Sandlapper Pub Co (April 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878440496
• ISBN-13: 978-0878440498
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,872,442 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Stories, March 22, 2001

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This review is from: Coastal Ghosts: Haunted Places from Wilmington North Carolina to Savannah Georgia (Paperback)

I found the stories in this book to be facinating. Although some could have used a bit more detail. The stories were short and easy reading but did cause you to wonder what it was that went bump in the night!

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Trees Died For This?, July 28, 2005

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This review is from: Coastal Ghosts: Haunted Places from Wilmington North Carolina to Savannah Georgia (Paperback)

To give this book all of the credit that I can I will say that the directions offered at the end of each story look pretty explicit and could help someone to find the locations in question. I will also say that the last two stories in the book are pretty good even if they are very short. Otherwise, this book was a complete disappointment.

Only the last two stories contain any recent eyewitness accounts and most of these stories would barely qualify as ghost stories. Many of the stories included have nothing at all to do with ghosts but deal instead with old legends that include a bunch of cursed skulls and a body that was pickled at sea. When the stories deal with ghosts at all the author doesn't choose to deal with them much. In story after story the history of the haunt in question goes on and on and the ghost itself only gets mentioned in the final paragraph. In one instance, the ghost only gets one sentence. Fortunately, most of the stories told here can also be found in other books that do a much better job of telling the story. A blurb on the back cover refers to this book as, "light", which I would say is a very kind way of putting it.

Add to this the fact that the stories are way to short, covering twenty-five stories in just one hundred eighty-four pages and that includes several pages of photos and you really don't have much of a book. To make things even worse, the writing while sometimes very good is also often disjointed and the reader is forced to go back and read certain sections over in order to figure out what the author is talking about. Whatever it is that she is talking about however, I can assure you that it has very little to do with ghosts.