The Telltale Lilac Bush

This selection is a full 189-pages worth of spine-tingling pleasure and literary entertainment. West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Like all folklore, these tales reveal much of the history of the region; its isolation and violence, the passions and bloodshed of the Civil War era, the hardships of miners and railroad laborers, and the lingering vitality of Old World traditions. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens of death, these tales reflect the inner lives — the hopes, beliefs, and even the fears — of a people.