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Mountain Magic: Spellbinding Tales Of Appalachia by Wade German, Brian J. Hatcher, Ann Sontheimer Murphy, Steve Rasnic Tem, Joshua Reynolds, Beth Cato, Lucy A. Snyder, Frank Larnerd, Steve Vernon, Jean Rabe, Karin Fuller, Kelly Ramsdell Fineman, Joyce Richardson, William Meikle, Stephen Couch

angielisle's review

5.0

Magical, in a bloody, grisly sort of way, with a wee dram of Appalachian history thrown into the mix - this is a collection that reads like an evolved version of an old mountain ballad or the fairy tales before Disney got a'hold of the them. While these stories and poems made me think of the old bloody ballads, they were also separate - these are new stories arising from the world that came after the age of the mountain ballads. I'm glad I added this to my Appalachian Literature collection.

I enjoyed all of the stories and poems collected here, but my favorite is Fiddlelegs by Steve Vernon - the story is deliciously creepy and I'm definitely looking up more of Vernon's work.