Legendary De Kalb Georgia High School coach, William Buck Godfrey offers up "Where the Woodbine Twineth and the Sycamore Ceased to Bloom," a collection of creepy stories and macabre poems served with a Southern flair...

Dark tales and poetry laced with terror and sprinkled with Hoodoo, vampires, exorcism and more await you in this beautifully written and beautifully woven collection by Georgia author William "Buck" Godfrey. The spine chilling stories are served up with a Southern flavor of mysticism and madness. Life, death, and the battles of good versus evil are the signposts along the journey where the Woodbine twineth and the Sycamore ceased to bloom.

Steven provides a page-by-page, often line-by-line, guide to the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes and puns around which Pynchon wove his novel. This is a guide book to one of the most important, and intractable, literary works of our time.

THE STORY: Gramps is idolized by his young grandson, Pud, who models his every action after the old man. But Gramps' salty expressions and rough behavior are frowned upon by both the strait-laced Aunt Demetria and Granny, so Aunt Demetria comes to