PERFECT FOR THE WINTER SEASON: Appalachian Winter Hauntings includes eleven bone-chilling accounts, penned by many of the preeminent storytellers in the business. These stories are appropriate to the Appalachian region and relative to the heart of the winter season. This anthology is dark and cold and is designed for cozying up close to a blazing fireplace on the coldest of winter nights.

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The much-anticipated biography of America’s Favorite Family of Gospel Music, the Hoppers, is available at special savings now. After All These Years, the Authorized Biography of the Hoppers is a handsome, illustrated hardback with full color dust jacket. In the account, author F. Keith Davis takes the reader on a colorful adventure.

A state bestseller is now available in a handsome softcover format, and includes additional research, interviews and photographs.

After putting together this anthology’s predecessor, Legends of the Mountain State: Ghostly Tales from the State of West Virginia, editor Michael Knost realized he had barely scratched the surface with Mountain State folklore. The first time around, thirteen extraordinary authors had contributed horrifying tales that left everyone goosebumped and scared of the dark. After seeing great success with the project, Woodland Press, publishers of the first edition, asked Knost to put together a second edition—one that focused on thirteen additional ghost stories and mountain legends.

“As a scion of one of the feuding families of the Allegheny and Cumberland hills, and one whose forebearers began their trek westward from the Virginia coast, I offer the following for all who may be interested or desire to hear the facts from one who has first-hand knowledge of the people of whom he writes.” — Dr. Coleman C. Hatfield

Rumors of War, Volume II of the Kanawha Chronicles was penned by by Helen Margaret Bassitt. While the first volume of the Kanawha Chronicles, Tales from Coalsmouth, focused primarily on people who were among the first settlers of southern West Virginia, this second volume, Rumors of War, examines the influential lives led by some of the descendants of those early pioneers.

A REGIONAL BESTSELLER --- This is the true account of a prominent, Depression-era woman, from Logan, WV, who was found brutally murdered. Mamie Thurman was a member of the tight-lipped, local aristocracy that frequented a private club in downtown Logan, where they gambled, drank illegally, swapped wives, and the like. A local handyman was apparently framed for her murder and spent the rest of his life in prison. Recently, however, a slew of evidence points to several groups, from the mob to the KKK, to rumrunners and local merchants, as having a part in this gruesome account.

Regional myths and folklore provide the perfect archetypes for tales expressing the collective fears of the human race. Because of this resonance and the unlimited potential provided by oral tradition and the countless ways these stories can evolve, myth, legend, and folklore are among the most powerful forms of storytelling. “Legends of the Mountain State 3”, edited by Michael Knost is the third collection of dark folklore from the state of West Virginia, and it contains tales that embody this timeless storytelling experience (re-printed from Shroud Magazine).

The state of West Virginia has a long prominent history of unexplained happenings and bizarre sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Perhaps it’s because we are a rural state—geographically covered with harsh mountains and rolling hills, being far from more densely populated territories—that makes this phenomena even more fantastic. Maybe the people here are just more observant of such oddities, or more willing to report such experiences to authorities.

Winner of the 2009 Black Quill Award for Best Dark Genre Book of Non-Fiction!
Nominated for the 2009 Bram Stoker Award.