Folklore Mythology category: 2054 books
by Thomas White, Tony Lavorgne
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
The twisty roads—and twisted tales—of the Appalachian Mountains make for distracted driving in western Pennsylvania.
Ghostly travelers are said to wander the lonely roads of western Pennsylvania. A creeping fog rises from Blue Mist Road, and stories of car crashes, lynchings and even strange...
by Matt Mogk
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
The most comprehensive zombie handbook ever published—with a foreword by Max Brooks! In one indispensable volume, Matt Mogk busts popular myths and answers all your raging questions about the living dead.*
Q. How can I increase my chances of survival?
A. One simple step is to keep...
Curiosities of Hampton Roads
Ghostly Colonists, Hidden Crypts, the Black Swan of Westover, and More
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Facts and photos highlighting the haunting side of Virginia’s Tidewater . . .
The history of Hampton Roads is as deep as the waters that surround it. From some of the first settlers in the New World to the formation of the nation, Virginia’s Tidewater is rich in curious tales of legends...
The World of Myth
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 1991
Hercules, Zeus, Thor, Gilgamesh--these are the figures that leap to mind when we think of myth. But to David Leeming, myths are more than stories of deities and fantastic beings from non-Christian cultures. Myth is at once the most particular and the most universal feature of civilization, representing...
Hell's Angels
A Strange and Terrible Saga
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels—Hell’s Angels, that is—in this short work of nonfiction.
“California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll...
Debunked!
Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, and Evil Plots of the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
As he did in Urban Legends and Hollywood Urban Legends, and as he has done in dozens of columns for the Chicago Sun-Times over the last decade and a half, Richard Roeper lays out the basics of the conspiracy theory, quotes some of the true believers-and then tears the theory apart with his bare hands....
by Peter Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Developed from an early oral storytelling tradition dating back to the dawn of European culture, this is one of the oldest and most vibrant of Europe's mythologies. From all six Celtic cultures - Irish, Scots, Welsh, Cornish, Manx and
Breton - Peter Berresford Ellishas included popular myths and legends,...
by William Lynwood Montell
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
"Lynwood Montell has collected ghost tales all over the state of Kentucky, from coal mining settlements to river landings, from highways to battlefields. He presents these suspense-filled stories just as he first heard or read them: as bona fide personal experiences or as events witnessed by...
by Lynn Michelsohn
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Beware the Shrieking Droll!
Meet the restless spirit of a young boy lost forever to a fierce marsh creature. Now he haunts the maze of Murrells Inlet marshes as a "droll," the unhappy ghost of a child who has died an unnatural death.
Then enjoy the antics of friendlier animal...
Cajun and Creole Folktales
The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1994
This teeming compendium of tales assembles and classifies the abundant lore and storytelling prevalent in the French culture of southern Louisiana. This is the largest, most diverse, and best annotated collection of French-language tales ever published in the United States. Side by side are dual-language...
Women Who Run With the Wolves
Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
"Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of wildish nature come to us at birth, society's attempt to 'civilize' us into...
Born on a Mountaintop
On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Pioneer. Congressman. Martyr of the Alamo. King of the Wild Frontier. As with all great legends, Davy Crockett's has been retold many times. Over the years, he has been repeatedly reinvented by historians and popular storytellers. In Born on a Mountaintop, Bob Thompson combines the stories of...
Heroes and Heroines
Tlingit-Haida Legend
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Over uncounted generations the Tlingits and Haidas of Southeast Alaska developed a spoken literature as robust and distinctive as their unique graphic art style, and passed it from the old to the young to ensure the continuity of their culture. Even today when the people gather, now under lamplight...
Diana of the Dunes
The True Story of Alice Gray
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The true story of a woman who abandoned Chicago for a secluded life in a remote shack—and became an early twentieth-century sensation.
In the fall of 1915, an educated woman named Alice Gray traded her life in bustling Chicago for a solitary journey in the remote sand hills of northwest Indiana...