The Left Palm: And Other Halloween Tales of the Supernatural

The Left Palm

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  • An Uneasy Traveler
  • Evelyn Klebert

    • In his new book, William Lynwood Montell has assembled an entertaining and diverse array of tales from across the commonwealth that will have you checking under the bed every night. The first-person accounts in this collection showcase folklore that Montell has drawn from archives, family stories, and oral traditions throughout Kentucky.

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    The stories include that of the ghost bride of Laurel County, who appears each year on the anniversary of her wedding day; the murdered worker who haunts the Simpson County home of his killer and former employer; and the lost mandolin that plays itself in a house in Graves County. These and many other chilling stories haunt the pages of Tales of Kentucky Ghosts.

    This evocation of the rich folk history of the region is the special strength and magic his work offers to readers: This is a matter about which Montell is passionate, and his passion shines through. Four Seasons of Kentucky Ghosts , a creepy collection of tales from their home state. An essential part of the American storytelling tradition, these ghost stories will delight readers who love getting goose bumps all year long.

    Readers are sure to find this book both meaningful and enjoyable. Ghostlore of American College Campuses. Some of the tales are set in rural areas, but many take place in urban areas such as the haunted house on Broadway in downtown Lexington and in buildings on the University of Kentucky campus, where Adolph Rupp is said to have conversed with the deceased biology professor Dr. This volume contains chapters on haunted places, poltergeists, communication with the dead, and ghosts who linger to resolve unfinished business from their past lives, as well as a chapter about ghosts who reveal themselves through lights, changes in temperature, or sound.

    The book even features a chilling account by a nineteenth-century family haunted in their Breckinridge County home. Whether witnesses believe that a spirit has come to protect those it left behind or to complete an unfinished task, ghostly appearances remain a mystery. As McCormick and Wyatt point out, there are no right or wrong answers when it comes to the supernatural. One thing is certain: McCormick and Wyatt have done a tremendous service to current readers and to future generations by preserving this important part of our heritage.

    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: There are over stories in Ghosts across Kentucky that are set in specific places and times.

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    They include tales of graveyards, haunted dormitories, animal ghosts, and vanishing hitchhikers. Montell describes weird lights, unexplained sounds, felt presences, and disappearing apparitions. Phantom workmen, fallen soldiers, young lovers, and executed criminals appear in these pages, along with the living who chance upon them. Though the focus is on the stories themselves, Montell also includes a chapter explaining our fascination with the supernatural and the deep truths these storytelling traditions reveal about our lives and our pasts.

    The journey begins with one woman's unstoppable quest for vengeance against a supernatural creature in "Wolves", and continues in an old historical graveyard where a horrifying discovery is uncovered in "Emma Fallon". In "The Soul Shredder", a psychiatrist's unusual patient opens his eyes to a disturbing new view of reality, while in "Wildflowers" a woman strikes up a supernatural friendship with impossible implications.

    And in "The Left Palm" a fortuneteller in the French Quarter receives a most unexpected and terrifying customer.

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    Hallie Barkly recovering from a painful and disillusioning divorce has forged a career and exorcised her demons by writing under the pseudonym of Sebastian Winters. In this case the time came at quite an unusual juncture in my life. The smell of coffee wafting across the bookstore came as a comfort to him as he walked inside to escape the bitter cold of the January morning. Evelyn Klebert takes you to a place where ordinary life fractures into the sphere of the paranormal. The collection ranges from tales of old-time burial practices, to stories about funeral customs unique to the African American community, to tales of premonitions, mistakes, and even humorous occurrences.

    In the heart of every man there is a history. In the heart of every monster there is a story.

    An Uneasy Traveler

    But the person he chases isn't really a man anymore and Ethan has been a werewolf for almost a millennium. With the aid of a gifted seer, he is on a blood hunt that will culminate in a journey that crosses the line between heaven and earth and ends somewhere in between. A New Orleans Paranormal Mystery. Max Gravier had no intention of becoming a recluse, but after his wife's death it seems his life is heading in that direction. He spends his time running Gravier's Bookshop on Magazine Street and occasionally on the quiet helps the police solve a crime with his psychic sensitivities.

    That is until he answers Caroline Breslin's call, a cry for help out of his dreams that draws him into a fierce battle for a young woman's soul. In this first installment of The New Orleans Paranormal Mystery series, Caroline Breslin, an amazingly gifted empath, is determined to strike out on her own and has moved out from the protection of her family home.

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    All is going extremely well until, of course, she comes under siege from a devastating supernatural attack. The last thing Caroline wants is to run back to her family for help, even though she is painfully in over her head. What she really needs is a knight in shining armor - or maybe just that guy that keeps haunting her dreams. It's opulent, it's classic, and it's one of the most renowned hotels nestled deep in New Orleans' famous business district, but something is amiss at The Hotel Mandolin.

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    PI Peter Norfleet is calling out the big guns to help him investigate a recent suicide at the famous establishment - his good friend Max Gravier, a formidable psychic, and his girlfriend Caroline Breslin, a talented empath. But none of them can seem to scratch the surface of this puzzle, no one except Cassie Breslin, Caroline's clairvoyant mother, who has somehow tapped into an unexpected connection with a tragic ghost from the turn of the century.

    And the more she uncovers the more dangerous and malevolent the mystery becomes.

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