Haint Country | Free Book
The hills of the Appalachian region hold secrets—dark, deep, varied,
and mysterious. These secrets are often told in the form of eerie,
hair-raising, and creepy folktales that reveal strange sightings and
oddities, and they commonly serve as cautionary tales for eager and
curious ears. These spine-tingling stories have been shared among
family members and neighbors in eastern Kentucky for generations.
Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers
is a collection of weird, otherworldly, and mystic phenomena—tales
that have been recorded and documented for the first time. Collected
and adapted by Matthew R. Sparks and Olivia Sizemore, the anthology
explores ghosts or "haints," strange creatures or "boogers," haunted
locations or "stained earth," uncanny happenings or "high
strangeness," and humorous Appalachian ghost encounters.
Contemporary first-person yarns about black panthers, demons, and
spectral coal miners reflect the style and dialect of the region.
Though comprised of a mixture of claimed accounts and fictional
lore, the locations and people woven throughout are very real.
Complemented
by evocative watercolor illustrations by Olivia Sizemore (who was
inspired by the work of Stephen Gammell), Haint Country is a
thrilling and bone-chilling excursion to the spooky corner of
Appalachia.
In The Press
Chilling and inexplicable supernatural stories that entertain and deliver rich details of everyday life in a region of Appalachia.
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