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, representing mysterious and supernatural doings from Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Most of the stories are related to historical places and sometimes to historical people.
The small chapel was filled to overflowing that afternoon with people who cared about Robert Musgrove and who grieved over his death. The alter area of the chapel was crowded with flowers, formal floral arrangements from the city mixed with fresh blossoms (jonquils, pear blossoms, yellow forsythias, and such) cut from Fayette County yards.
The preacher used the Methodist ritual for the burial of the dead, and he read the Twenty-Third Psalm and John 14:1, “Let not your heart be troubled . . .” and he talked about how life is like a railroad. The choir sang “In the Sweet By and By” and “When They Ring the Golden Bells.”
