I'm going to start the week with a genre of story that is incredibly important in the African American storytelling tradition: ghosts and the supernatural! Here are two books by James Haskins which are just a click away at the Internet Archive: The Headless Haunt and Other African-American Ghost Stories and Moaning Bones: African-American Ghost Stories.
Here are the stories you will find in each collection:
Headless Haunt. Ain't I Got to Believe /
Wait Till Emmett Comes /
It Vanished Like a Shadow /
The Deserted Village /
Little Nero and the Magic Tea Cakes /
The Ghost in Black Silk /
The Ghost Log Cabin /
Uncle Henry and the Dog Ghost /
I Was Born With a Caul /
Daddy and the Plat-eye Ghost /
Two Boys and a Plat-eye /
Sometimes They Come in a Whirlwind /
A Night at Pickey's /
Strange All Through /
The Ghosts of a Jealous Man /
Her Husband's Ghost /
Calvin Copley and the Widow /
The Saturday-night Fiddler /
A Treasure-hunting Story /
The Headless Haunt /
I Don't Want to Fool With No Spirits /
The Girl and the Plat-eye /
The Half-clad Ghost /
The Spirit of a Friend /
How Jack Became a Jack-o'-Lantern /
The End of Hock /
The Ghost in the Stetson /
Hold Him, Tabb /
The Ghosts of Cedar Creek /
The Ghost of the Yankee Soldier /
The Ghost of a Man the Yankees Killed /
I See Spirits /
Dead Aaron /
Protection Against Ghosts, Spirits, and Haunts
Moaning Bones. Big Fraid and Li'l Fraid / The Ghost in the Backseat / Black Tom / You Shot Me Once / Cinderella and the Buried Treasure / The Ghost Yearling / Find My Child! / The Ghost of Gabe / The Ghost Owl / The Haunted Stateroom / The Hole They Couldn't Fill / Looks Like Jesus / Old Hy-ty / The Lake of the Dead / The Moaning Bones / Old Moccasin's Ghost / The Mysterious Pile of Quilts
James Haskins was a prolific author who wrote over a hundred books on African and African American themes and topics; you can find MANY of this books at the Internet Archive: books by James Haskins.
For more about his life and work, see Wikipedia, and you can find his obituary in the New York Times; he died in 2005. This photo is from the James Haskins Collection held by the University of Florida Library.
So, a full moon is coming in just a couple of days. You can curl up with one of these books and read yourself a scary story by the light of that full moon... if you dare!
by James Haskins
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