GRAVEYARD TALES

This collection of six folk tales, recorded live at the National Storytelling Festival, provides children and adults an appealing group of eerie stories. All the tellers are women, offering a good range of style and voice. Gayle Ross's high, thin voice telling a Cree story "The Skeleton Woman" is a contrast to Kathryn Windham's rich, vibrant voice in "The Hole That Will Not Stay Filled." Laura Simms presents a magnificent snake in her tale "The Woodcutter." While the dialect in "Dead Aaron" is a somewhat difficult to understand, relistening helps. The Folktellers, Barbara Freeman and Connie Regan-Blake offer an unusual duet of the poem "The Ghoul." R.F.W. ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: JULY 93]