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Wadmalaw
A Ghost Story
Bart Bare
Canterbury Press Publishers
978-0-9829054-0-1
$16.95 paperback
6 x 9
264 pages
March 2011
Fiction, Folklore/Ghosts
Liv and Autis Oakley, a young professional couple, have purchased their dream home on several wooded acres of Wadmalaw Island—one of the Sea Islands bordering Charleston, South Carolina. In short order they find slave graves from the Civil War–era on their land. Soon after, they realize that there are ghostly spirits in their furnished basement, and a demon appears in the form of a large black panther, which rages and ravages. Finally, they see the wraith-like lady who lives in the run-down old mansion back in the woods behind Liv’s and Autis’s dream home. All of these sinister elements are intertwined in Liv’s family history: a history of which she was totally unaware. Liv’s role in this family history is the catalyst activating the spirit elements on the property. Liv and Autis discover that finding their dream home was no accident.
Liv and Autis—with the assistance of their large pointer, Bob, new-found friends, Carole “Bambi” Bamberg, a vivacious blonde Southerner, and Sweetgrass Weaver, 90-year-old descendent of slaves—struggle to defeat the forces making their lovely home into a living prison.
Peopled with characters of distinct and compelling Southern flavor and set among the lovely live oaks, towering pines, and fecund swamp and salt marshes of the coastal islands of South Carolina, Wadmalawis a contemporary ghost story with a satisfying and surprising ending.

Praise for Wadmalaw
"In Wadmalaw, the author Bart Bare captures the true eccentric characters of Charleston, South Carolina, from the living to the marsh land coastal slave ghosts that go bump in the night. The question of whether the latest couple to occupy this old coastal manor house could last longer than the previous occupants kept me riveted to the very end."
- Glenn Woods, author of Essence: This Child Ghost Wants to Tell You Her Story

Publicity
“Liv and Autis Oakley purchase their dream home on the small island of Wadmalaw off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina, only to discover they are not the only—nor the first—occupants of the house and property. In short order they find slave graves from the Civil War era, hear ghostly voices in their furnished basement, and encounter a demonized black panther who rages and ravages. They soon discover that finding their dream home was no accident.”
-ForeWords Reviews Newsletter, February 3, 2011

Links
Visit Bart Bare's Web site at www.bartbare.com.

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