Alan Brown

Alan Brown is a professor of English at the University of West Alabama in Livingston who has written extensively about the folklore of Alabama and the rest of the South as well. His interest in southern ghost stories led him to write The Face in the Window and Other Alabama Ghostlore (1996), Shadows and Cypress (2000), Haunted Places in the American South (2002), Stories from the Haunted South (2005), Ghost Hunters of the South (2006), Haunted Georgia (2008), The Haunted South (2014) Mississippi’s Haunted Golden Triangle (2016), Eerie Alabama (2019), Legends and Lore of Mississippi (2020), and Legends and Lore of Mississippi (2021). When he is not teaching or writing, Brown plays with his grandsons, Cade and Owen, and gives ghost tours of the city of Livingston and UWA’s campus.