Title-The Dark-Thirty: Southern
Tales of the Supernatural
Author-Patricia C. McKissack
Illustrator-Brian Pinkney
Genre-Chapter Book
Subgenre-Horror-Fiction
Theme-Ghost stories, Horror tales,
African Americans
Award(s)- Newbery Honor Book; Coretta Scott
King Author Award; Kansas William White Master List; Illinois Rebecca Caudill
Young Reader’s Award
Date of publication-1992
Publishing company-Alfred A.
Knopf. Inc.
Brief summary-A collection of
ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the
dark-thirty. The dark-thirty is the half
hour before sunset when ghosts seem all too believable.
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