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A collection of ghost stories with African-American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable.

Presents a collection of nine original tales drawn from African American oral tradition that blends history and legend with sly humor, creepy horror, villainous characters, and wild farce.

A series of short stories by such authors as Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Joseph Bruchac, interspersed with poems and photographs, provides different perspectives on a game of streetball played one steamy July day at the West 4th Street court in New York City known as The Cage.

Collection of six supernatural tales that are inspired by the oral tradition of African-American storytellers.

Contains ten short stories that provide a portrait of life on one block in New York's Harlem neighborhood.

A collection of fourteen short stories by award-winning author Edward Jones that explore the people and unique sub-culture of Washington, D.

American Authors Including: Charles Chestnutt, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Chester Himes, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Paule Marshall, Samuel R.

A collection of stories written by African-American authors about the American West over the course of the twentieth century.

Contains three novels and a collection of short stories by American author James Baldwin.

Presents five stories about the lives of African Americans in the deep South during the early twentieth century, and includes an autobiographical essay in which Richard Wright discusses his education in the laws of Jim Crow.

Contains 60 short stories including Headwaiter, Lunching at the Ritzmorte, All God's children got pride, and Prison mass.

The six stories are based on real people--human beings who had one thing in common: they were slaves in a country--our country--dedicated to freedom.

In "The Friendship," four children witness a confrontation between an elderly African American man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.

A companion to "Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings, " this volume brings together nine short stories and four novels by the author.

A collection of forty-seven stories written by the author between 1919 and 1963.