title: Raw Head, Bloody Bones: African-American Tales of the Supernatural
author:  Mary E. Lyons 
description: These 15 African American tales, divided into four spooky sounding sections--"Gullah Goblins," "Ghosts," "Monsters" and "Superhumans"--derive their bewitching quality from the rhythms of the spoken word and the dancelike quality of early African American speech. In "Dead Aaron," a corpse that stubbornly refuses to stay dead dances around with "hestet yellow teeth a-snappin, and he bald bonehead a-wagglin." The stories are intended as moral lessons: in "Bloody Bones," for example, the wielder of a gossiping tongue is beheaded. Lively, lilting cadences provide a quixotic contrast to the often gruesome subject matter; thorough introductions present cultural insight into the origins of what to most readers will be an entirely new genre in fiction. Ages 10-up. <br />Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  [HANDS OFF MY WIFE: Black Cossacks MC](part0000_split_001.html#_Toc507185253)
  
  
  [CHAPTER ONE](part0000_split_003.html#_Toc507185254)
  
  
  [CHAPTER TWO](part0000_split_004.html#_Toc507185255)
  
  
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