Education Blog

The North Carolina Literary Map now has an education blog! Connect with teachers and school media specialists while incorporating North Carolina heritage into the classroom. Our first post comes from East Forsyth High School teacher Farrah Hilton's literature class and explores North Carolina folklore and ghost stories!

North Carolina Literary Map Education Blog

North Carolina Ghost Stories

 

Happy Halloween to our literary map followers! We hope you have a safe, spooky, and fun week as October comes to a close. To those looking for a good ghost story to tell around the camp fire, look no further! No place has more scary stories than North Carolina! Here is a selection of 10 ghost stories from set in North Carolina. Happy reading!

• An Illustrated Guide to Ghosts and Mysterious Occurrences in the Old North State
• Appalachian Ghosts
• Carolina Ghost Woods
• Folktales and Ghost Stories of North Carolina's Piedmont
• Haunted Historic Greensboro
• Ghost Stories and Legends of the Mountains
• Ghosts of Old Wilmington
• Mountain Ghost Stories and Curious Tales of Western North Carolina
• North Carolina Ghosts & Legends
• The Best Ghost Tales of North Carolina

Lemony Snicket at Wake Forest University

The author of the bestselling children's book series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, will be touring in North Carolina this month! Don't miss the opportunity to meet him! 

Tickets available here.

Jill McCorkle at UNCG

North Carolina author Jill McCorkle will be visiting UNCG on Tuesday, October 29th. She will read from her new book Life After Life and sign copies of her books, which will be for sale. The event will take place in the Virginia Dare Room at the Alumni House, between 4:00pm and 5:30pm.