Kathryn A Tucker

Jeffrey is the mischievous "something" that has headquarters in the Windham home in Selma, Alabama. He first made his presence known in October 1966, and since then he has continued, at irregular and infrequent intervals, to clump down the hall, slam doors, rock in a chair, frighten the family cat (...

This is the first anthology of the author's own favorite ghost stories from the highly successful Jeffrey series of books that began in 1969 with 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey. Hundreds of thousands of these books have been sold. The present volume includes 13 of the best of Mrs. Windham's stories, ...

Kathryn Tucker Windham's Spit, Scarey Ann, and Sweat Bees is a magical romp through the author's childhood in the Deep South during the twenties and thirties. Mrs. Windham examines intrinsic country values that she was brought up on, and gives us a true sense of the Southern temperament of that time...

First published in 1975 and long out of print, this book is now reissued in a handsome new edition. Alabama is like one big front porch where folks gather on summer nights to tell tales. It's a sprawling porch stretching from the Tennessee River Valley to the sandy Gulf beaches. In this book, Mrs. W...

A true song of the South. In splendid photographs and quiet, musing words, the South comes alive in all its independent history. And not just a South as the North sees it, in all it's flaring cliches, but as it sees itself. This large-sized, magnificent creation of a book portrays magnolia blossoms,...

This amazing collection of photographs spans five decades of American history and captures the unique spirit of an indomitable woman and the South she calls home. Kathryn Tucker Windham shows scarecrows decorating an unworked field, old men pondering dominoes on the porch of a country story, and lit...

This slender book, the last of 29 written by Kathryn Tucker Windham over her long and productive life, will be an exquisitely bittersweet read for the many fans of the late storyteller and author from Selma, Alabama. Windham died in June 2011 at the age of 93, but only over the last 18 months of her...