These beautifully written gems breathe life into a setting where the natural world brushes up against the supernatural, where ghosts drift through misty hollows and strange things stir beneath the trees.

With the intimacy of a porch-side storyteller, Chittum draws us into the lives of hill folk—isolated, raw, and deeply human. From savage, feral twins and spectral shadows to fortunes told through pillow feathers, each tale balances the magical and the sinister with quiet mastery.

Emily Hart

Best selling children's book author Ellen Potter says Chittum is a “Powerhouse writer”

Praise for Tales of Terror

Elizabeth Cohen, author of The House on Beartown Road, excerpted in The New York Times.

What I love is the way these stories spirit you away like the Twisting Wind to another time and place where mountain people living on the edge of the known world meet up magic and darkness.

Reader's Choice

Shawn Mulligan

Ida Chittum's Tales of Terror was my White Whale for a while: always too expensive to buy online, always just too late at an online auction, and I always wished someone would reprint it so I could finally read it in full! I got lucky with a falling-apart copy on eBay a few years ago and have treasured it ever since.

So glad to see Ida's work being reprinted with this book, and I hope more will follow soon!

Maria Kemplin

Your mother's book was my hands down favorite in the Mt. Sterling, KY elementary school library during my childhood. I read it so many times the librarian banned me from checking it out anymore, and then I would ask to go to read it at recess.

Richard Oakley

I still have the autographed copy of Tales of Terror Mrs. Chittum gave me as a birthday present when I was about 13.

Susan Potter

Great collection! The Giant haunted me since my sisters and I shared an upstairs room.

Teresa Jones

I've pre-ordered mine too! I can't wait to reread it and put it on the shelf next to The Empty Grave.