Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 05: Lights and Shadows of the South

The American South has always been a place where the past refuses to stay buried. In these pages, Charles M. Skinner gathers the ghost stories, legends, and folklore that haunted the consciousness of the region, tales passed down through generations, whispered on porch steps, and spoken only after dark. Here you'll find a young woman who defies the currents to swim toward her lover, only to meet a fate worse than death. You'll hear the moans of the Three Sisters rocks, stones that weep for the dying before they fall. A vengeful chief loses everything to a tragic love, and a hunter named Kedar pursues a ghostly deer into territory where the living were never meant to go. These are not mere entertainment, they are the literary archaeology of a region's soul, where romance blends with tragedy and supernatural warning meets earthly sorrow. The South of these tales is humid, haunted, and achingly beautiful, a place where every swamp holds a spirit and every old road has seen things best left unspoken.