| Many people helped supply information for the stories in this book. Although several of these tales are a part of Alabama's oral tradition of folklore, handed down by word of mouth by local storytellers, details and historical sidelights supplied by interested persons have added to those stories' authenticity. |
| Singular gratitude for supplying information about these Alabama accounts of the supernatural are due to Mrs. C. F. Graham, Elizabeth S. Howard, Annie Young, Jim Cox, Mrs. Mary P. Powe, Ruth Cowan Redmond, the Bert Neville collection of steamboat memorabilia, Mrs. W. A. Carraway, the Fort Payne Times-Journal, the special collections librarians at the Mobile Public Library, The Clark County Historical Society Quarterly, Dr. and Mrs. Walter Brower, the staff at the Birmingham Public Library's Tutwiler Collection, Pat Blalock and her staff at the Selma-Dallas County Public Library, the library staff at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Trudy Cargile, Roy Summerford, Margie B. Huffman, Ann Pearson, Mrs. Robert E. Smith, Mrs. Emma Wilks Petty, Colonel and Mrs. Jerry Doherty, Eva Mae Barfoot Scott, Duck Hardin, Dr. Rosemary Canfield, employees at the Pike County Courthouse, Joyce LaMont and her staff at the William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama, The Crimson and White, Mary Chapman Mathews, Mary Frances Tipton and her staff at The Carmichael Library at the University of Montevallo, Mrs. Golda W. Johnson, the Clarke County Democrat, the South Alabamian, Louis M. Finlay, Jr., Mrs. Emma Norwood Hinson, Judge Otha Lee Biggs, the Monroe Journal, the Alabama Historical Commission, and the scores of Alabamians who guided me to splendid stories by asking, "Have you heard about?" |
 | KATHRYN TUCKER WINDHAM
APRIL 1982 |
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