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  • The "First Lady of American Folklore" explores the supernatural side of the Civil War with chilling tales of spectral soldiers and haunted battlefields. Few events have sparked more legends and stories of the supernatural than America's Civil War....



  • North and South Carolina are steeped in history -- some of it supernatural. The "custodian of the twilight zone" shares their spookiest tales (Southern Living). Nancy Roberts, known as the "First Lady of American Folklore," is a topnotch storytell...



  • Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady of American Folklore" and the title is well deserved. Throughout her decades-long career, Roberts documented supernatural experiences and interviewed hundreds of people about their recollec...



  • The Old South comes to supernatural life in this classic collection of chilling tales from the "custodian of the twilight zone" (Southern Living). Nancy Roberts, known as the "First Lady of American Folklore," is a topnotch storyteller and one of ...



  • Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady of American Folklore" and the title is well deserved. Throughout her decades-long career, Roberts documented supernatural experiences and interviewed hundreds of people about their recollec...



  • This collection features such stories as "Passenger Train Number 9"; "The Little People"; "The Phantom Rider of the Confederacy"; "The Demon of Wizard Clip"; "Room for One More"; "Tavern of Terror"; "The Surrency Ghost"; "The King's Messengers"; "The...



  • Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady of American Folklore" and the title is well deserved. Throughout her decades-long career, Roberts documented supernatural experiences and interviewed hundreds of people about their recollec...




  • In eighteenth-century Palestine, on the shores of Galilee's Lake Tiberias, visionary political and military leader Dahir al-Umar al-Zaydani undertakes a journey toward the greatest aim anyone could hope to achieve in his day: the establishment of an ...






  • Estrangement is at the heart of this closely knit collection of short stories. Roberts interweaves tales of a group of acquaintences, all of them brought together and divided, hence the metaphor in the book's title -- The Great Divide....



  • Acclaimed storyteller Nancy Roberts takes the reader on a haunted tour of coastal North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia in this engaging new collection of thirty-three ghost stories and legends. In North Carolina, we hear of the restless spirit...





  • A doctor making a house call through a snowstorm to care for a young girl is guided by her dog, only to find that the dog was buried the month before. A ghostly herd of cattle reenacts a stampede on the anniversary of their slaughter. A cat pays a fi...



  • This is the first book to tie together the earlier gold rush in the Carolinas and Georgia with the well-known California gold rush of 1849. It presents a history of the Southern gold rush and the legends that have grown up around it. Nancy Roberts te...



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Nancy Roberts has published 16 books.

Nancy Roberts does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, South Carolina Ghosts, was published in October 2019.

The first book by Nancy Roberts, Southern Ghosts, was published in December 1979.

No. Nancy Roberts does not write books in series.