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Author Alan Brown shines the light on some of worst characters in Mississippi history. Mississippi's nickname--"The Magnolia State"--highlights the region's natural and architectural beauty. However, Mississippi is also home to a rogue's gallery of thieves and murderers, beginning with the nation's first serial killers--the Harpe Brothers--and continuing to the present with Glen Rogers, "The Cross Country Killer." Lurking through Mississippi Scoundrels is a wide variety of scalawags, rangi...

Florida's Big Bend region is sometimes known as the "Forgotten Coast," but the tales of its haunts are anything but forgotten. This small cluster of towns and cities has produced a body of ghost lore that rivals any stories produced in the state's better-known haunted cities. One of the towns in the Big Bend--Monticello--is known in paranormal circles as one of the most haunted places in the entire Southeast. Old City Cemetery in Tallahassee is the oldest public cemetery in the city and ha...

Democracy didn’t fall overnight. It was taken.When the Prosperity Party rises to power, investigative reporter Connor Bourne is one of the first to see the truth behind the slogans—foreign alliances, manufactured chaos, and a calculated dismantling of American democracy.He warned the country.No one listened.Now the regime controls the courts, the media, and the streets. Connor has lost his career, his safety, and the woman he loves. Marked a...

Alabama has a historic and haunted side. This book highlights the most interesting sites and stories, from Auburn and Birmingham to Tuscaloosa and Mobile.

"Sensitive, personal and culturally informed." Andy Wightman MSPSeeking a temporary escape from city life and a world gone mad, Alan Brown plots out a personal challenge: an epic coast-to-coast trip through the wild and lonely interior of the Highlands. He traverses paths historic and new, eschewing creature comforts and high-tech cycle gear, trusting his (mostly) serviceable bike. Armed with the essentials and a sense of adventure and curiosity, he discovers more ...

Life for the McClains becomes spooky in a hurry after Rose discovers that a friend has left her an iconic theater in her will, and the family of that friend realizes that their livelihoods are at stake. Dark Hauntings, the 10th and final installment of the Booger McClain Ozarks Detective Series, features the investigative duo of Rose and Booger exploring a couple of Springfield, Missouri’s most haunted locations as they try to understand why and how a wealthy Ozarks family might have kille...

Life meets death when Detective Booger McClain gets gunned down trying to protect a client, which unexpectedly sends the private investigator into the afterworld. From the beyond, McClain gets help from a former teacher who is trying to show her student that life is always more than it seems. Desperate to return to his wife and partner Rose, McClain tries to rush through his heavenly lessons only to discover he can help his wife from the other side as she reconnects with her estranged sist...

Southerners love the South. And some souls never leave. Savannah, New Orleans and St. Augustine are among the most haunted places in America, and chilling stories abound nearly everywhere below the Mason-Dixon line. At Seaman's Bethel Theater in Mobile, Alabama, actors and staff are frightened by the unnerving sounds of a child's laughter. The ghost of Alfred Victor DuPont, a noted ladies' man, is said to harass female employees in the stairwell at DuPont Mansion in Louisville, Kentucky. T...

Northwest Arkansas is home to a budding metropolitan area. From Bentonville to Siloam Springs to Fayetteville, the region is now home to about half a million people. And with big-city growth comes big-city problems.When the wife and daughter of a Branson real estate mogul go missing in Pea Ridge, he turns to his old friend Detective Booger McClain to track them down. McClain and his wife, Rose, soon find themselves entrenched in a fresh world of lust, drugs, money, and corruption a...

Discover the spine-chilling stories and local legends of this corner of the American South . . . Includes photos!Mississippi's Golden Triangle is a major modern hub—but restless spirits of Native Americans, Civil War soldiers, and slaves also wander this region. Tales of a mysterious watchman who patrols the railroad tracks between Artesia and Mayhew haunt curious locals. Ed Kuykendall Sr. is rumored to manage Columbus's Princess Theater from beyond the grave. A yo...

Lean back into Louisiana lore with an earful of New Orleans jazz and a bellyful of Cajun cuisine. But when the music dies down and the lights flicker out, hushed conversations bleed into the darker mysteries of the Pelican State. Storied outlaws like John Murrell, Eugene Bunch and Leather Britches Smith steal into the room. Voodoo priestesses Marie Laveau and Julia Brown are already there, along with the Phantom Whistler and the Axeman of New Orleans. Folklorist Alan Brown educates and ent...

Underneath the city of Springfield, Missouri, in the caves and tunnels around downtown, lives a dark community all its own. And as Detective Booger McClain discovers: above ground isn’t much different. As McClain searches for answers in a famous local homicide case, he and his wife, Rose, run straight into his old nemesis, The Order, a secretive group of wealthy men who hold tremendous power and influence. And this time, The Order is hellbent on destroying the nosy Ozarks’ detective for go...