James Still (1906–2001) remains one of the most beloved and important writers of Appalachian literature. Best known for his acclaimed novel River of Earth (1940), the Alabama native and adopted Kentuckian left an enduring legacy of novels, stories, and poems during his nearly seventy-year career. The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still honors the late writer by collecting all of Still’s short stories, including those from On Troublesome Creek (1941), Pattern of a Man and Other Stories (1976), and The Run for the Elbertas (1980), as well as twelve prose pieces originally published as short stories and later incorporated into River of Earth. Also included are several lesser-known stories and ten that were previously unpublished. Recognized as significant short fiction in his day—many of his stories initially appeared in The Atlantic and The Saturday Evening Post and were included in The O. Henry Memorial Award Stories and The Best American Short Stories collections—Still’s short stories, while often overshadowed in recent years by his novels and poetry, are among his most enduring literary works. Editor Ted Olson’s introduction offers a reassessment of Still’s short fiction within the contexts of the author’s body of work and within Appalachian and American literature. Compiling all of James Still’s compelling and varied short stories in one volume, The Hills Remember is a testament to a master writer.
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Introduction
Sweet Asylum
The Hills Remember
Incident at Pigeon Roost
Murder on Possum Trot Mountain
These Goodly Things
All Their Ways are Dark
Horse Doctor
Bare-Bones
One Leg Gone to Judgment
A Bell on Troublesome Creek
The Scrape
The Quare Day
Job’s Tears
The Egg Tree
Lost Brother
Brother to Methuselum
So Large a Thing as Seven
Mole-Bane
Journey to the Forks
Uncle Jolly
Bat Flight
Pigeon Pie
Twelve Pears Hanging High
Two Eyes, Two Pennies
On Quicksand Creek
The Ploughing
The Force Put
On Pigeon Roost Creek
The Straight
Sunstroke on Clabber Creek
The Hay Sufferer
I Love My Rooster
Snail Pie
The Moving
The Proud Walkers
The Stir-Off
Locust Summer
Hit Like to ‘a’ Killed Me
Mrs. Razor
The Sharp Tack
Maybird Upshaw
Pattern of a Man
School Butter
The Nest
A Master Time
A Ride on the Short Dog
The Fun Fox
The Burning of the Waters
Chicken Roost
The Run for the Elbertas
Encounter on Keg Branch
Plank Town
From the Morgue
Acknowledgements
Publications
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Ted Olson, a professor of Appalachian studies at East Tennessee State University, has edited books exploring the work of James Still, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Sherwood Anderson. The author of Blue Ridge Folklife, Breathing in Darkness: Poems, and Revelations: Poems, Olson coedited The Bristol Sessions: Writings about the Big Bang of Country Music and A Tennessee Folklore Sampler.
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