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You ask for a story. I will tell you one, fact for fact and true for true." So begins ""Crook-Neck Dick,"" one of twenty-three stories in this beguiling collection of Charleston lore. Derived from African American legends, these fables have entertained generations of Charlestonians with sheer storytelling magic. To delight of folklorists, students of Charleston history, and all those who love a good ghost story, this treasure features photos of the storytellers who shared these remarkable stories with John Bennett.Julia Eichelberger, the Marybelle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature and an executive board member of the Center for Study of Slavery at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, provides a foreword.
John Bennett (1865-1956) was a novelist, artist, essayist, and poet of international acclaim who played a fundamental role in the Charleston Renaissance. His other books include the beloved children's story Master Skylark: A Story of Shakespeare's Time and The Treasure of Peyre Gaillard.Julia Eichelberger is the Marybelle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature and an executive board member of the Center for Study of Slavery at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.
Introduction: Remembering and Rewriting Gullah NarrativesAn Introductory Comment1. The Doctor to the Dead2. The Death of the Wandering Jew3. Madame Margot4. The Black Constable5. Tales from the Trapman Street Hospital6. All God's Chillen Had Wings7. The Measure of Grief8. The Enchanted Cloak9. The Young Wife Whose Vine Meloned Beyond the Fence10. Death and the Two Bachelors11. When the Dead Sang in Their Graves12. Rolling Rio and the Gray Man; Or, The Gift of Strength13. The Remember Service14. A Young Girl's Virtue Preserved by the Devil15. Crook-Neck Dick16. Louis Alexander17. The Apothecary and The Mermaid18. The Man Who Wouldn't Believe He Was Dead19. Daid Aaron, I20. Daid Aaron, II21. Buried Treasure; Or, The Two Bold Fisherman
A collection of folk story, myth, drolleries, macabre unreason . . . old tales of death, mystery, bizarre incredibilities, diabolic influence, demanding ghosts, buried treasure, enchantments, miracles, visitations, and the dead that are not dead." —Kirkus Reviews
