Description: Ann Hite takes her readers back to Black Mountain with this haunted short story collection. An array of new characters on the mountain experience ghostly encounters. The collection took inspiration from her beloved readers, who provided writing prompts. Wrinkle in the Air features Black Mountain's Polly Murphy, a young Cherokee woman, who sees her future in the well's water. Readers encounter relatives of Polly Murphy as the stories move through time. The Root Cellar introduces Polly's great grandson, who tends to be a little too frugal with his money until a tornado and Polly's spirit pays the mountain a visit. In The Beginning, the Middle, and the End, readers meet Gifted Lark on an excessively frigid January day. This story moves back and forth between 1942 and 1986 telling Gifted and her grandmother Anna's story. This telling introduces spirits that intervene in the spookiest of ways.
Brief description: Ann Hite is an award-winning Southern writer and admits to being a storyteller from birth. Her GHOST ON BLACK MOUNTAIN won Georgia Author of the Year and was shortlisted for the Townsend Prize in 2012. Her novel SLEEPING ABOVE CHAOS was Georgia Author of the Year 2017 Finalist. ROLL THE STONE AWAY became Georgia Author of the Year 2021 Honorable Mention in the memoir category.