Grayling; or Murder Will Out by William Gilmore Simms. Part 13 of 22 - Jill Weber
Channel: Thomas Cooper Library
Date: 17/10/2013

The Simms Initiatives is celebrating Halloween!
 
The Simms Initiatives is a digital humanities project of the University of South Carolina Libraries, with funding from the Watson-Brown Foundation.  Our website is dedicated to getting more people interested in reading the work of nineteenth-century Charleston writer William Gilmore Simms, who was one of the most important of America's antebellum authors.  With that goal in mind and Halloween on its way, we thought it would be fun to read one of Simms's ghost stories, releasing a new section of the story every weekday in October, and leading up to Halloween.
 
"Grayling; or Murder Will Out" is a part of the author's short story collection The Wigwam and the Cabin.  It is a detective story about a young Revolutionary War soldier named James Grayling who is visited by the ghost of a recently-departed friend with instructions on how to solve his murder and apprehend his killer.  We hope you enjoy it!
 
If you would like to read the full-text of this story or any of the many other works available at the Simms Initiatives website, simply visit us at simms.library.sc.edu.  Until then, happy Halloween!