"Imagination and memory abound in this marvelous collection of twenty-two stories by Texas women. In these stories readers will encounter the magical moment when a dying grandmother teaches Sue Ellen to dance; the red shoes Tammy the Tupperware Princess dons in New Orleans; the yellow thread needed to put Sue Tidwell's quilt together; and weekends of escape and sisterhood spent in El Paso's McCoy Hotel. The stories chosen here -- introduced and placed...

"Ghosts and the supernatural appear throughout modern culture, in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts. Popular media's commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from what people believe about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Belief and tradition and popular or commercial nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting...