uscpress.com - Fiction & Folklore https://uscpress.com/ By the Red Glare https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494669/By-the-Red-Glare
Fear and brutality grip Columbia, South Carolina, in the harsh winter of 1865 as General William Tecumseh Sherman continues his fiery march to the sea and advances on the capital city where se…]]>
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The Gold Seekers https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494597/The-Gold-Seekers
This is the first book to tie together the earlier gold rush in the Carolinas and Georgia with the well-known California gold rush of 1849. It presents a history of the Southern gold rush and…]]>
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South Carolina Ghosts https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494603/South-Carolina-Ghosts
Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady of American Folklore" and the title is well deserved. Throughout her decades-long career, Roberts documented supernatural experienc…]]>
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The Lost Woods https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494640/The-Lost-Woods
A collection that follows the lives of two families who own land and hunt in rural South Carolina

The Lost Woods is a collection of fifteen short stories, most of them set in and around…]]>
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F Troop and Other Citadel Stories https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494641/F-Troop-and-Other-Citadel-Stories
Short stories about character-building experiences at the storied military academy in the 1960s

From its founding in 1842 the Citadel has been steeped in tradition. There have been chan…]]>
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Cakewalk https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494643/Cakewalk
First published in 1982, Cakewalk was the first short story collection by iconic Southern writer Lee Smith. Comic and observant, Smith's fourteen tales in Cakewalk introduce readers to a host…]]>
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A Southern Girl https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494648/A-Southern-Girl
Set against the exquisite, historical backdrop of Charleston's insular South of Broad neighborhood, A Southern Girl is a tale of international adoption and of families lost, then found anew th…]]>
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Claws https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494651/Claws
Unseen by readers for a century, Archibald Rutledge's story "Claws" is a fast-paced adventure tale of a young boy, Paul, lost in the foreboding terrain of Spencer's Swamp, the domain of the mi…]]>
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The Sheltering https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494660/The-Sheltering
"'You set yourself up as judge, jury, and executioner,' Pamela had said, but that was wrong: you set yourself up as angel, and await the word of God." Luther Redding lost his job, and almost l…]]>
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The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494687/The-Night-the-New-Jesus-Fell-to-Earth
The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth was originally released in 1994 and was the first published book from acclaimed writer Ron Rash. This twentieth anniversary edition takes us back to where…]]>
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