I read this in search of ~scary stories~ to tell at a library event. I found one that I reworked to tell (the story of Bill Sketoe's hole). Most of them aren't scary--which when I picked this up I knew it wasn't a scary stories anthology but I was just looking for something different, and I intended to skim through it and just look for ghosts. But instead I read the whole thing because all the stories looked so interesting. It's... almost like it's a collection of BEST-LOVED stories or something. A cool mix of folk tales, historical stories, and personal narrative.