‘And behind him, like a misshapen black frog, bounded the Thing, its red tongue lolling out of its gash of a mouth, its diminutive blubbery lips drawn back in

Collected here are eight of Henry S. Whitehead's creepy tales of magic and voodoo: "Jumbee" (Weird Tales, 1926), "The Shadows" (Weird Tales, 1927), "Cassius" (S

Mary Alicia Owen was a folklorist living in St. Joseph, Mo. in the eighteen hundreds. She recorded these "voodoo" stories from former slaves who lived in the ar