Doctor to the Dead

A collection of fantastical and macabre Gullah-inspired folklore that illuminates African-American life in nineteenth-century South Carolina.You ask for a story. I will tell you one, fact for fact and true for true. . . . So begins "Crook-Neck Dick," one of twenty-three stories in this beguiling collection of Charleston lore. John Bennett''s interpretations of the legends shared with him by Africa...