978-0-89587-340-8
0-89587-340-0
$11.95 paperback
5¼ X 8
160 pages
February 2007
Press Release (PDF)
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Elizabeth Huntsinger Wolf, the author of two popular Low Country ghost-story
collections, returns with a third volume of 18 stories. In this collection, Wolf moves
beyond local haints and tells about eerie events and unsolved mysteries from the area.
Included are stories about the captured mermaid whose storm ball caused an 1893
hurricane; a treasure buried along the Sampit River during the Civil War; the pirate
Drunken Jack; Tom Yawkey and his beloved Cat Island; Thomas Lynch and Hopsewee
Plantation; the mysterious fire that destroyed Kensington Park; the Pawleys Island
Pavilion; George Trenholm and the lost money from the Confederate treasury; Sea View
Inn on Pawleys Island; and the Strand Theatre in Georgetown.
about the author
Elizabeth Huntsinger Wolf is the author of Ghosts of Georgetown and More Ghosts of
Georgetown. She works for Georgetown County's SC First Steps program
as a storyteller to enhance literature for preschoolers. She and her husband are licensed
tour guides for "Ghosts of Georgetown Lantern Tours." They conduct walking tours of
the harborfront/historic district of Georgetown, South Carolina, dressed in authentic
clothing and carrying kerosene lanterns from the Civil War era. |
