Kathryn Tucker Windham was een Amerikaanse verteller wiens werk gericht was op het vastleggen en delen van volksverhalen. Ze begon haar schrijfcarrière op jonge leeftijd en ontwikkelde zich tot journaliste en fotografe. Haar schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door een diepe waardering voor traditie en cultuur, en biedt lezers een authentiek inkijkje in het leven. Door haar diverse bijdragen werd ze een belangrijke stem in het behoud van cultureel erfgoed.
For as long as Mississippi has existed (and then some), flocks of phantoms have haunted the mortal inhabitants of the Magnolia State. In Thirteen Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey, best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham, along with her trusty spectral companion Jeffrey, introduces thirteen of the state's most famous ghost stories.
A deluxe, commemorative edition of famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham's introduction to the Volunteer State's most enduring ghost stories. This handsome commemorative hardback edition returns Windham's suspenseful classic to its original keepsake quality and includes a new afterword by the author's children.
Jeffrey is the mischievous "something" that has headquarters in the Windham home in Selma, Alabama. He first made his presence known in October 1966, and since then he has continued, at irregular and infrequent intervals, to clump down the hall, slam doors, rock in a chair, frighten the family cat (now deceased, through no fault of Jeffrey), move heavy pieces of furniture, cause electronic equipment to malfunction, and hide objects. He frequently accompanies Mrs. Windham on her travels, and tales of Jeffrey's antics are widely recounted.