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Haunted Places in the American South

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This is based on my upcoming review in First Draft Magazine:

HAUNTED PLACES IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH by Alan Brown.
University Press of Mississippi Jackson. 2002. ISBN
1-57806-477-5.

This must have been one fun book to write, since it is based
wholly on things you can't prove and stories largely made up by
imaginative people. Kind of like a book on Flying Saucer
sightings: the stories may be true, but how is anybody ever going
to be able to prove it?

Reality aside, the reader can romp through the South,
reading tales of things that go scary in the night, safe in the
knowledge that it's only a book.

Alan Brown takes us from Carrollton, Alabama's famous Face
in the Pickens County Courthouse Window to Birmingham's Downtown
Library ghost.

Since just about everybody who is alert and bristling with
caffeine has seen things out of the corner of the eye, movements
in peripheral vision that can't be viewed head-on, this book can
compel and entertain. Since everybody's been frightened at one
time or another by a nightmare after a turbulent night trying to
digest a spicy taco dinner, everybody can identify with the
implications of these ghost stories. You just have to be in the
mood. If this is your Day of Pragmatism and Reality Check, you'll
be bored. If this is a dark and stormy night with the power out
and a candle illuminating an H.P. Lovecraft book, you just may
want to pull that copy of HAUNTED PLACES off the shelf and dive
in.

If you're going to scare yourself, why not learn a little
history at the same time?

--Jim Reed, author of DAD'S TWEED COAT: SMALL WISDOMS, HIDDEN COMFORTS, UNEXPECTED JOYS Learn more: jimreedbooks.com