"The Phantom of Bogue Holauba" by Charles Egbert Craddock is a story set in the Mississippi Delta around the 1910s, focusing on how the past can haunt people. Kenneth Gordon visits a plantation to handle his cousin's will and soon encounters a ghost near the Bogue Holauba, a place linked to a local legend of a Polish trader who perished. As he gets to know the Keene family, Gordon uncovers secrets tied to the ghost, including a cruel prank his cousin confessed to that led to the trader's death. Gordon faces a tough choice: reveal the confession or protect the family's name. The tale reaches its peak when Geraldine, a determined character, destroys the confession, hoping to end the family's ghostly troubles.
The phantom of Bogue Holauba 1911
By Charles Egbert Craddock
In the Mississippi Delta, a family's dark secret and a haunting legend collide, forcing a man to confront a moral dilemma and a woman to take drastic action to bury the past.
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About the AuthorMary Noailles Murfree was an American author of novels and short stories who wrote under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock. She is considered by many to be Appalachia's first significant female writer and her work a necessity for the study of Appalachian literature, although a number of characters in her work reinforce negative stereotypes about the region. She has been favorably compared to Bret Harte and Sarah Orne Jewett, creating post-Civil War American local-color literature.
Mary Noailles Murfree was an American author of novels and short stories who wrote under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock. She is considered by many to be Appalachia's first significant female writer and her work a necessity for the study of Appalachian literature, although a number of characters in her work reinforce negative stereotypes about the region. She has been favorably compared to Bret Harte and Sarah Orne Jewett, creating post-Civil War American local-color literature.
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