The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
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Overview:
- Title: The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
- Author: Patricia C. McKissack
- Year: 1993
- ISBN-10: 0590477358
- Publisher: Scholastic
- Pages: iv+123
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
- Notes:
- A Newbery Honor book.
- Winner of the Coretta Scott King Award.
- Page 123 is the book's inside back cover.
- There is no price in or on the book.
- RL5 010-012.
- This is a collection of original stories rooted in African-Americian oral storytelling tradition.
- Not all, but most do have some supernatural or fantastic basis to them.
- Each story is preceded by a short paragraph by the author that puts each story in historical perspective.
- First edition was published in hardcover in 1992 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.