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Both enlightening and entertaining, The Face in the Window is the first scholarly collection of ghostlore from throughout the state of Alabama. Alan Brown has traveled the state collecting stories and photographs illustrating the places that gave rise to the eerie tales. Brown re-creates the experience of actually hearing the tales by reproducing here each story exactly as it was told. In addition, he includes an analysis of the folk motifs and themes that run through the ghostlore commonly found in Alabama and examines their contribution to folk traditions.

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title The Face in the Window and Other Alabama Ghostlore author - photo 1
title:The Face in the Window and Other Alabama Ghostlore
author:Brown, Alan.
publisher:University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin:081730813X
print isbn13:9780817308131
ebook isbn13:9780585211633
language:English
subjectGhosts--Alabama.
publication date:1996
lcc:BF1472.U6B74 1996eb
ddc:133.1/09761
subject:Ghosts--Alabama.
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The Face in the Window and Other Alabama Ghostlore
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The face in the window of the Pickens County Courthouse in Carrollton is - photo 2
The face in the window of the Pickens County Courthouse in Carrollton
is probably Alabama's most famous ghost. See Stories 123a-d. From a
photograph by Marilyn Brown.
Page iii
The Face in the Window and Other Alabama Ghostlore
Alan Brown
Page iv Copyright 1996 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa Alabama - photo 3
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Copyright 1996
The University of Alabama Press
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the
United States of America
designed by erin toppin bradley
The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brown, Alan, 1950 Jan. 12
The face in the window
and other Alabama ghostlore / Alan Brown.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8173-0813-X
I. GhostsAlabama.
I. Title
BF1472.U6B74 1996
133.1'09761dc20
95-33572
British Library
Cataloguing-in-Publication
Data available
Page v
Contents
Preface
xiii
Introduction
1
Chapter 1
Central Alabama
Picture 4
1. The Thing with Wings
11
Picture 5
2. It's Cold Down Here!
12
Picture 6
3. The Wailing Ghost
12
Picture 7
4. An Alabama Banshee
12
Picture 8
5. God, the Devil, and the Two by the Gate
12
Picture 9
6. The Woman in White
13
Picture 10
7. Who's Going to Sleep with Me Tonight?
14
Picture 11
8. The Face on the Door
14
Picture 12
9. The Mad Scientist's House
14
Picture 13
10. The Railroad Ghost
15
Picture 14
11. The Blue Ladies
15
Picture 15
12. The Spectral Housekeeper
16
Picture 16
13. The Lady on the Rock
16
Picture 17
14. Reynolds's Ghost
16
Picture 18
15. Trummy's Ghost
17
Picture 19
16. The College Night Kid
17
Picture 20
17. Condie Cunningham
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