Haunted North Carolina

North Carolina is haunted!  Just check out NC Literary Map's robust list of titles about ghosts and other haunted places across our state!  Apparently, North Carolina ghost writer Nancy Correll Roberts-Brown is not the only one who likes to tell of spooky and mysterious happenings in our area!

Storytellers Theresa Bane and Cynthia Moore Brown focus on ghost tales in the Piedmont region of NC in "Folktales and Ghost Stories of North Carolina's Piedmont."  Charlotte native Stephanie Burt Williams tells of haunted locations in Charlotte and its surrounding county in "Ghost Stories of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County."  Got kids?  Then you might want to peruse these stories in Terrance Zepke's aptly titled "Ghosts of the Carolinas for Kids."

Interested in learning more?  Then please check out these books and others on our lists at your local library or bookstore!  Happy reading!

 

https://www.amazon.com/Folktales-Ghost-Stories-Carolinas-Piedmont/dp/0764337459/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1508426201&sr=1-1&keywords=folktales+and+ghost+stories+of+the+north+carolina+piedmont

https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Stories-Charlotte-Mecklenburg-County/dp/1878177141/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1508426505&sr=1-1&keywords=ghost+stories+of+charlotte+and+mecklenburg+county

https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Carolinas-Kids-Terrance-Zepke/dp/156164501X/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Ghost Writer Nancy Roberts

Ghosts.  Unexplained supernatural phenomena.  Abandoned towns.  From the mysterious Brown Mountain Lights north of Morganton to vacant colonial Brunswick Town south of Wilmington, North Carolina seems to be full of both stories and events that baffle the mind and defy explanation.

Gifted storyteller and prolific author of folklore and ghost stories Nancy Correll Roberts-Brown has recorded many of North Carolina's best legends for you to enjoy in her books.  Want to learn more about the Brown Mountain Lights?  Then please check out "Ghosts of the Carolinas."  Would you like to hear about the ghost that haunted the legendary pirate Blackbeard on his ship near Ocracoke Island?  Then please consider reading "North Carolina Ghosts and Legends."

Interested in learning more?  Then please check out these books and others that the author has written at your local library or bookstore!  Happy reading!

 

https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Carolinas-Nancy-Roberts/dp/0872495876/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0872495876&pd_rd_r=HBB418Z4SHZ2775VG0AR&pd_rd_w=rpOP0&pd_rd_wg=35ZxO&psc=1&refRID=HBB418Z4SHZ2775VG0AR

https://www.amazon.com/North-Carolina-Ghosts-Legends-Roberts/dp/0872497658/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

NC Writers' Network 2017 Fall Conference

The North Carolina Writers' Network 2017 Fall Conference will be held November 3-5 at the Holiday Inn Resort in Wrightsville Beach, NC.  The conference attracts hundreds of writers both locally and from across the country.  Among them are Wiley Cash, a best-selling novelist and writer-in-resident at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.  He will be giving the keynote address.  Freelance writer and author Emily Colin will be one of the instructors and also critique manuscripts.  For more information, please check out the NC Writers' Network website.  Early registration ends October 27.  Spaces are filling up fast so sign up now if you are interested in attending!  We hope to see you there!

http://www.ncwriters.org/