Buy Now: Wadmalaw: A Ghost Story
Author: Bart Bare
ISBN: 978-0-9829054-0-1
Price: $16.95
Publication Date: March 2011
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Wadmalaw: A Ghost Story is peopled with characters of distinct and compelling southern flavor, and is set among the lovely live oaks, towering pines, and fecund swamp and salt marshes common to coastal southeastern United States.
Liv and Autis Oakley, a professional couple, have purchased their dream home on several wooded acres of Wadmalaw Island—one of the sea islands bordering Charleston, SC. In short order they find slave graves from the Civil War era on their land. Soon after they realize there are ghostly spirits in their furnished basement, and then there appears a demon in the form of a large black panther, who rages and ravages. It turns out that all of these sinister elements are inter-twined in Liv’s family history: A history of which she was totally unaware until she and her husband moved to South Carolina from the north. She discovers that her role in this family history is the catalyst activating the spirit elements on the property, and discovers that finding their dream home was no accident.
Liv and Autis, with the assistance of their large pointer, Bob, new-found friends, “Bambi,” a vivacious blonde southerner, and Sweetgrass Weaver, a ninety- year-old descendent of slaves, struggle to defeat the forces that has made their lovely home a living prison.
What readers are saying about Wadmalaw:
"In Wadmalaw, the author Bart Bare captures the true eccentric characters of Charleston, South Carolina, from the living, to the marsh land coastal slave ghosts tht go bump in the night. The question of whether the latest couple to occupy this old coastal manner house could last longer than the previous occupants kept me riveted to the very end." --Glenn Woods, author of Essence: This Child Ghost Wants to Tell You Her Story
"It can be rough to enjoy a new home when the supernatural wants to crush you. Wadmalaw follows Liv and Autis Oakley as they cope with the crushing reality that their new Wadmalaw Island home is haunted by malignant spirits. They soon find however, that running is not an option as something else will follow them no matter where they go. Wadmalaw is a fun and riveting work of the paranormal, highly recommended." --James A. Cox, Editor in Chief, Midwest Book Reviews
"This complex tale told by Bart Bare in Wadmalaw weaves together Civil War and slave history with the folklore of the very real Wadmalaw Island, in South Carolina. Bare’s rousing ghost story is a winner on every level and some of the most beguiling characters never become flesh and blood. The apparitions that evolve from faintly heard voices in the basement of the Oakley’s house to a black panther that can kill (but cannot itself be killed) jump off the page to linger in the reader’s memory. ...commands the reader’s attention as it builds to a satisfying climax. Readers in search of a tale to raise the hackles will not be disappointed." --ForeWord Magazine