I picked this book up in a local book shop and could not put it down! I got goosebumps after reading each story...but not the creepy kind. This is a heartwarming book especially for animal lovers. It goes to show that the power of our pets is something that goes beyond death. I would highly recommend this well-written and beautiful book.
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If you love dogs, and good, rousing ghost stories, then you need to read this book. I read it in two nights, it was very hard to put the book down. These are not all tales of the "dawn of the dog-dead" variety; there are stories of dogs' loyalties to their former guardians; tales about canines who continue to protect their humans from the "other side"; and also tales that I am sure we have all heard in one form or other:...
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This book has received an Award of Merit from the 2001 Southern Books Competition. "Ghost Dogs of the South presents itself to us through an evocative hand-colored photograph of a boy and his dog in times of old. And it just gets better. Wonderful photographs in interesting faded-edge shapes change from chapter to chapter. The book is hand-sized, almost a prayer-book testimonial to the dogs in our lives. The designer has created...
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This is such a wonderful book; it is just precious (a word I rarely use). Ghost lovers, dog lovers, folktale lovers--this is your book. The stories are wonderfully tongue-in-cheek, folksy tales that capture much of the oral traditions from whence they assuredly came. This is in no way, I should say, a parapsychological study of ghosts; in a couple of stories, a ghost is only briefly mentioned. This is all about the story...
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A collection of stories that are generally more interesting and strange than chilling, but always entertaining. A fe minor complaints: Some of the stories seem so crafted that they do not seem to be from oral or storytelling tradition -- they have been given a definite narrative and don't feel as "folksy" as some ghost tales. Also, I'd love to have a little more information about the location of the tales; only the city/town...
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